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Life update
Nov. 19th, 2024 08:31 pmOkay, so I have an infection in my toe. Which I got from the cold I had a few weeks ago. Pretty fucking insane stuff.
It's getting better because I have painkillers that also fight the infection, but a few days ago I could barely fucking walk and my toe sometimes felt like it was getting repeatedly stabbed. Not the end of the world, mostly just annoying, but obviously I wasn't in a state to go to work. So I tried telling my boss. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I trust you can guess with close approximation how my boss reacted.
On Wednesday I did work my full shift, even though I couldn't really move that toe and was pretty slow because of it. It was inconvenient, but not VERY painful, so I decided to just go into work. I asked if I could stand behind the cash register all day, so that I wouldn't have to move a lot, because I was very slow, so otherwise I wouldn't be of much use to the company (and would probably get complaints about that). My boss seemed annoyed I'd even ask something so stupid and she said I couldn't because "Harry is ill, so we don't have a lot of people around right now". Well, lady, Harry could be fucking dead and it wouldn't make my toe less swollen. But she later came to me and said that I had gotten "lucky" because she had found a way to schedule me behind the cash register all day. Woo-fucking-hoo. My hero.
But then the night from Wednesday on Thursday, I woke up just after midnight with this stabbing sensation in my foot. I needed to take painkillers to even trust that I would be able to sleep, and that says quite a lot because I hardly ever take painkillers. I decided to call in sick to work on Thursday, because it had obviously gotten worse (and I could barely walk, for fuck's sake), but my boss and the occupational health and safety service I need to report to both said I could've just worked. My boss said they could've just put me in a wheelchair and let me do work in that because, and I quote, "you still have hands". The occupational health and safety service wanted me to still come into work that day, but I obviously refused. My boss then said she had noted that day as a day off, meaning I'd now have a day off less this year. I was baffled, still am honestly, and when I went to the doctor's office on Friday, one of the doctors called it barbaric and the other said it made no sense to force me to work. But neither my boss nor occupational health and safety service care about whether you have pain or not. Just if you're able to move enough muscles to do something, anything.
My mother got pissed. Like, PISSED pissed. She said she was going to call the occupational health and safety service back to voice a complaint and demand I get my free day back. She's wanted to interfere with work stuff before, but I've always told her to not get involved, because that'd only make things worse and make me look weak, but I figured things couldn't be worse and I'm probably going to be let go sooner or later anyway, so I told her she could if she wanted to. I just didn't care anymore. And so she did. She said she finds it ridiculous and that she's considering legal action if they don't fix it. And the occupational health and safety service lady called my boss. I thought that, enabled by her magic powers to be horrible, my boss would be even more angry and rude towards me. But I was wrong. Ever since that call, she has been... well, not *nice*, but... alright to me? Hope she'll keep that up, because I am so fucking tired of her just hating on me and dunking on me and getting angry at me over LIES that my coworkers tell about me for some reason? I don't need her to like me or to even be genuinely nice or friendly. I just need her to stop being such a mega bitch. I guess things are looking good for now, but I got my paycheck today and so I checked just to make sure and Thursday is still noted as a free day. When I was in pain and could barely walk. So now I have to confront her about that at work tomorrow. It's so fucking annoying and exhausting. Just let me do my job and treat me like a person and stop screwing me over at every turn!
But oh well. I'll return to work tomorrow. My boss said I could do something while sitting, so that should work. I have been really tired lately, but at least I'm not in pain anymore and walking is getting easier again every day. That's really nice, because you never want to walk somewhere as badly as when you're not allowed to walk. :P Hope I can pick up some more Monster Energy on Friday. In the meantime, I bought Bluey stickers and a vriendenboekje (it's a type of book popular in the Netherlands among young children; it's kind of like a small survey about yourself and your friendship with the owner of the book; I thought it'd be funny to let all my comrades write in it). Two Bluey stickers are on my laptop already and I don't know where I want to stick the others yet, but I am very happy with them. :] I'd have waited and gotten them in the store, but with the holidays coming up I didn't want them to be out of stock by the time I can walk normally again.
Other good news is that mother and I installed this box from our tv provider on the tv and now we can pause programs and such. I don't care for it all that much, but I guess it's convenient. What I DO really like is that we now have music video streaming services from this one radio station where you can pick a certain mood or genre or era or whatever and it'll make a playlist for you to watch/listen to. I listened to the 00s hits one, the 00s metal one and then the emo one. It was really nice, although it is annoying that every advertisement block they have THREE Amazon advertisements in a row. Overkill much? Oh, and if you decide to play Stan by Eminem, STOP IT WITH THE CENSORING!!!
Oh yeah, and the first snow of the season in the Netherlands is a fact. Three cheers for winter!
Well, I think that's about all for now. It's a lot, but at least you're caught up now. Alright, BYE.
It's getting better because I have painkillers that also fight the infection, but a few days ago I could barely fucking walk and my toe sometimes felt like it was getting repeatedly stabbed. Not the end of the world, mostly just annoying, but obviously I wasn't in a state to go to work. So I tried telling my boss. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I trust you can guess with close approximation how my boss reacted.
On Wednesday I did work my full shift, even though I couldn't really move that toe and was pretty slow because of it. It was inconvenient, but not VERY painful, so I decided to just go into work. I asked if I could stand behind the cash register all day, so that I wouldn't have to move a lot, because I was very slow, so otherwise I wouldn't be of much use to the company (and would probably get complaints about that). My boss seemed annoyed I'd even ask something so stupid and she said I couldn't because "Harry is ill, so we don't have a lot of people around right now". Well, lady, Harry could be fucking dead and it wouldn't make my toe less swollen. But she later came to me and said that I had gotten "lucky" because she had found a way to schedule me behind the cash register all day. Woo-fucking-hoo. My hero.
But then the night from Wednesday on Thursday, I woke up just after midnight with this stabbing sensation in my foot. I needed to take painkillers to even trust that I would be able to sleep, and that says quite a lot because I hardly ever take painkillers. I decided to call in sick to work on Thursday, because it had obviously gotten worse (and I could barely walk, for fuck's sake), but my boss and the occupational health and safety service I need to report to both said I could've just worked. My boss said they could've just put me in a wheelchair and let me do work in that because, and I quote, "you still have hands". The occupational health and safety service wanted me to still come into work that day, but I obviously refused. My boss then said she had noted that day as a day off, meaning I'd now have a day off less this year. I was baffled, still am honestly, and when I went to the doctor's office on Friday, one of the doctors called it barbaric and the other said it made no sense to force me to work. But neither my boss nor occupational health and safety service care about whether you have pain or not. Just if you're able to move enough muscles to do something, anything.
My mother got pissed. Like, PISSED pissed. She said she was going to call the occupational health and safety service back to voice a complaint and demand I get my free day back. She's wanted to interfere with work stuff before, but I've always told her to not get involved, because that'd only make things worse and make me look weak, but I figured things couldn't be worse and I'm probably going to be let go sooner or later anyway, so I told her she could if she wanted to. I just didn't care anymore. And so she did. She said she finds it ridiculous and that she's considering legal action if they don't fix it. And the occupational health and safety service lady called my boss. I thought that, enabled by her magic powers to be horrible, my boss would be even more angry and rude towards me. But I was wrong. Ever since that call, she has been... well, not *nice*, but... alright to me? Hope she'll keep that up, because I am so fucking tired of her just hating on me and dunking on me and getting angry at me over LIES that my coworkers tell about me for some reason? I don't need her to like me or to even be genuinely nice or friendly. I just need her to stop being such a mega bitch. I guess things are looking good for now, but I got my paycheck today and so I checked just to make sure and Thursday is still noted as a free day. When I was in pain and could barely walk. So now I have to confront her about that at work tomorrow. It's so fucking annoying and exhausting. Just let me do my job and treat me like a person and stop screwing me over at every turn!
But oh well. I'll return to work tomorrow. My boss said I could do something while sitting, so that should work. I have been really tired lately, but at least I'm not in pain anymore and walking is getting easier again every day. That's really nice, because you never want to walk somewhere as badly as when you're not allowed to walk. :P Hope I can pick up some more Monster Energy on Friday. In the meantime, I bought Bluey stickers and a vriendenboekje (it's a type of book popular in the Netherlands among young children; it's kind of like a small survey about yourself and your friendship with the owner of the book; I thought it'd be funny to let all my comrades write in it). Two Bluey stickers are on my laptop already and I don't know where I want to stick the others yet, but I am very happy with them. :] I'd have waited and gotten them in the store, but with the holidays coming up I didn't want them to be out of stock by the time I can walk normally again.
Other good news is that mother and I installed this box from our tv provider on the tv and now we can pause programs and such. I don't care for it all that much, but I guess it's convenient. What I DO really like is that we now have music video streaming services from this one radio station where you can pick a certain mood or genre or era or whatever and it'll make a playlist for you to watch/listen to. I listened to the 00s hits one, the 00s metal one and then the emo one. It was really nice, although it is annoying that every advertisement block they have THREE Amazon advertisements in a row. Overkill much? Oh, and if you decide to play Stan by Eminem, STOP IT WITH THE CENSORING!!!
Oh yeah, and the first snow of the season in the Netherlands is a fact. Three cheers for winter!
Well, I think that's about all for now. It's a lot, but at least you're caught up now. Alright, BYE.
