Maniacal Days

Friday, October 13, 2006

And then there were 10

Dear Boss at over-priced European auto manufacturer,

Hi, I'm not going to be able to come in today. My daughter is sick. Yes, again. I know it's Friday and all, but she's got a fever of 102.8, so as you can tell I will not be able to send her to daycare, and will have to take another sick day.

I realize that you JUST talked to me a couple of days ago about taking too much sick time, but just like I told you during our talk, unfortunately it's unavoidable. I understand that even though "technically" as an analyst I have unlimited sick time, that this is just a term that the company likes to use in order to persuade you to take LESS time than you normally would. Then, once you get close to 10, they have a nice talk with you. I should have expected our talk the other day, since I have 9. As you also pointed out during that talk, last year while pregnant, I had close to 10 as well, and this is becoming a pattern.

I was thinking about why my daughter is always sick, and decided it's your fault. First I only breastfed her for about 6 - 8 weeks. Yes it was hard, but mainly I had to go back to work after 8 weeks because your maternity leave is practically non existent, and it didn't seem as if you were going to make it easy for me to pump. The bathroom stall, apparently is a great pumping spot. AHEM Second, you gave me the run around about working from home. And if I WAS working from home on the days needed, then my daughter wouldn't be in daycare getting sick every other week. Let alone the fact that I'd be getting more work done, since we keep laying people off and not rehiring, and I'm doing three people's job already, plus I'd be happy......go figure!

Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I'm not coming in today, so.... *shrug* Do what you must. You wanna fire me? Well, it might suck for a couple of minutes....then I'll realize that YAY, no more working here! Well, at least until the mortgage bill comes. And then, well........then I'll have to figure something out. But yea....see ya Monday.

Regards,
Jenn Maniacal

Posted by Jenn :: 6:30 AM :: # 19 comments