I know there are piss takers who call in sick every Monday with a hangover but I'm not nor have done anything like that.
I am in a role I'm very stressed in and fortunately only have a couple of weeks left. I'm part of a large 'training cohort' and a couple of people have resigned already.
We're not given adequate time to complete the work in and doing unpaid overtime for 29k a year isn't really fair. We've spoken to our manager and she told us to go to senior management with complaints.
I've forgotten what a decent night's sleep looks like. I spend my days there in a trance, come home at night and nap which I know I'm fortunate to be able to do as no children etc. And then just dread the next day. I've tried sleeping tablets but they haven't worked sadly.
I try mindfulness, exercise etc. Which helps me to some extent but ultimately it's not going to make such a stressful role any better unfortunately.
I've never really had any sick leave except the occasional day over the last 17 years tbh. Wondering about taking some sick leave as it'll just allow me to recharge and recover. Once I've left this awful job which should hopefully be in a couple of weeks, my anxiety will significantly improve I imagine.
But until then I can't cope with this anymore.
They are literally taking away 2 days this week with all day meetings, we've said it'll not give us time to do the work we're meant to do and we're told we've got to just make it work somehow. Allowed limited time off this year.
I feel trapped but I've been told I need to just get over it and shouldn't be taking sick leave. It's not the sort of job where anyone would struggle if I'm not in or would have a lot more work to do, don't know how to explain it but it's not like that.
At this point I'm not even caring if it looks bad on a reference. If that's the world we live in where people are scared of being off sick, and I definitely am. What would you do? I know I'll be out in a few weeks but don't know if I can do it.