So... It's Sat. Morning, 5:33am... I'm suppose to be at work by 6:00am. I went to see when my next schedualed bus comes and guess what... it dosen't arrive until 6:40am, getting me to work by 7:10am.
This tardiness will count as one quarter point towards my record.
Now lets bring in the fact that I called in sick yesterday due to the hnagover from Hell. This day of absence cost me one full point on my record. But calling in sick today, costs nothing, it's a consecutive day gone, thus the same incident, and truly a free day, point free at least.
So here's the dilema: Do I do the right thing, go to work and get docked a quarter of a point, or call in sick yet again and get docked nothing?
This wouldn't be a dilema for most people, espesially people who hate their job as much as I do. (I hate feeling like part of a flock of sheep.) The problem is it makes me feel incredibly guilty... I could justify yesterday... I could bairly stand without the World spinning, but what makes today okay other than the fact that I'll be covering my own ass. And of course theres the money factor... it will make for an incredibly short paycheck... although that dosen't bother me half as much, I've never been one to think about money in a logical sense.
In the end I woosed out... I called in sick. I feel horrible about it, and a little bit of guilty relife as well.
Am I a bad person for this?
This tardiness will count as one quarter point towards my record.
Now lets bring in the fact that I called in sick yesterday due to the hnagover from Hell. This day of absence cost me one full point on my record. But calling in sick today, costs nothing, it's a consecutive day gone, thus the same incident, and truly a free day, point free at least.
So here's the dilema: Do I do the right thing, go to work and get docked a quarter of a point, or call in sick yet again and get docked nothing?
This wouldn't be a dilema for most people, espesially people who hate their job as much as I do. (I hate feeling like part of a flock of sheep.) The problem is it makes me feel incredibly guilty... I could justify yesterday... I could bairly stand without the World spinning, but what makes today okay other than the fact that I'll be covering my own ass. And of course theres the money factor... it will make for an incredibly short paycheck... although that dosen't bother me half as much, I've never been one to think about money in a logical sense.
In the end I woosed out... I called in sick. I feel horrible about it, and a little bit of guilty relife as well.
Am I a bad person for this?
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Eight months of writing, researching, editing, and self-publishing every free minute of my life is FINALLY paying off! You can see it at New Book for a New World. It's FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND words long... which is like, five times the length of a typical grocery store novel.
Now that I'm moving on to the job of *promoting* the most controversial book ever, I'm sure I'll have PLENTY of amusing stories to tell in my journal...
Good to hear you're doing well, lousy jobs and short paychecks aside.
[Edited on May 25, 2005 7:52PM]