26 year old female software developer sends email to her team that she is "taking today and tomorrow to focus on my mental health". Not seeing a therapist, just chilling at home taking it easy. Receives a "flood" of supportive emails for her brave use of company sick leave.

Rodion-Raskolnikov · 2017-07-12T20:13:43+00:00

i think we know how this would play out if we pulled this little stunt at work tomorrow.

boringcarpets · 2017-07-12T21:09:04+00:00

Fucking hell, take leave, take sick leave, who gives a fuck? Attention seeking cunt.

You know what, this reminds me of the "woman trouble" excuse - largely used because men supposedly get all weird about periods and don't want to know - fuck that, we know what they are and men should straight up call them out on their bullshit

JediFapArtist · 2017-07-12T20:21:41+00:00

I always use my sick days.

squidracer · 2017-07-12T23:02:58+00:00

You know your hard to get along with at work when even the CEO of the company is glad you didn't show up for a few days

JayJayEcks · 2017-07-12T20:15:13+00:00

Hive-fived for playing hooky.

Unbelievable.

RetiredTimeHo · 2017-07-12T21:52:21+00:00

Hmmm. Okay I e-mail my team when I'm sick (small team my colleague and my immediate supervisor). For example I had strep a week ago and had to miss 2 days. I sent them an email about it.

What's wrong with this?

Unless this was a company wide e-mail that'd be really strange.

Also LOL at the CEO and COO. They look like straight up beta bucks.

mthrowaway52 · 2017-07-12T23:53:21+00:00

At the old company I owned I called all time off PTO. I didn't separate it into bullshit categories like vacation, sick, personal holidays, etc.

It was all paid time off.

You needed a day off, just tell me and I'll most likely approve it. In fact I can't remember one time where I didn't approve it.

I literally gave zero fucks why you needed the day off. I never asked. If someone would tell me why, I would tell them I don't care why. We all have our reasons to need a day off, I'm not your mom, I don't need a reason.

I think if someone would have actually brought me a doctor's note, I would have fired them.

Even I took random days off when the stress levels got to be too high. I'll tell the second in command hey I'm not coming in for two days. Call me if it's a super emergency only. Bye.

I think the workplace would be better if all places implemented that policy.

Reprogramming_Life · 2017-07-12T23:30:09+00:00

The next time you need a day off tell your boss you've got testicle issues, tell 'em you've got achy balls syndrome or something, just make some shit up. lmao Let me know how that works out for you. Tell them some legit shit that exists even, I've got testicular cancer, need the day off. Your Boss "You don't need your balls to work. I expect you to be here tomorrow unless you've got a doctor's note for a medical procedure."

Aznsupaman · 2017-07-13T04:21:57+00:00

I take a mental health day from time to time to keep me from losing my shit at work and killing people but I sure as shit don't announce it to everybody or expect to get commended for it.

FullBoost11AFR · 2017-07-12T23:04:28+00:00

I'd take sick leave for mental issues too - if I lived in Ann Arbor. Since this was coming from CNN, I thought this was fake news at first.

kyledontcare · 2017-07-13T00:29:43+00:00

I'd have found somebody better to hire to begin with. Surely there are better developers in the greater Ann Arbor area than her, aren't there? People that have all their marbles.

SirWallaceII · 2017-07-13T03:54:55+00:00

lol everyone is so fragile these days. I wonder (((why)))

EndlessPontification · 2017-07-13T04:15:49+00:00

Woman takes time off from work, the whole world stops.

sidewinder582 · 2017-07-13T04:45:01+00:00

Taking off two days from work will not cure your crazy.

robowriter · 2017-07-13T04:59:20+00:00

Can't wait until the femnists clean the colleges out of men taking STEM. Then we all revert back to using the Timex Sinclair.

2lost2bsaved · 2017-07-13T09:03:54+00:00

"female software developer" what???

Lenovojunk · 2017-07-12T22:31:36+00:00

I remember the Air conditions ska A/C are sexy women

davisyoung · 2017-07-13T03:44:19+00:00

Chronic anxiety, depression, ptsd, insomnia and suicidal thoughts. I would pretty much give up counting on her if we worked together.

ififcanIhaveacoatplz · 2017-07-13T04:33:09+00:00

this is <current year> when i cuck my company for womens privileges i need to be sure they will use said privilege for ample chadvertising

mgtownigga · 2017-07-13T06:41:37+00:00

lol. I know a lot of women that take days off for bullshit reasons like this, and while it can result in some contention in the work place, they usually get away with it. Of fucking course.

Try being a man and citing mental health issues and see what teh results are lol.

topshelg · 2017-07-13T07:44:46+00:00

If it was a man he would be told to grow a pair. Woman always get special treatment. Her boss is probably fucking her on the side

shellbroth · 2017-07-13T09:11:40+00:00

Receives a "flood" of supportive emails for her brave use of company sick leave.

Of course, they're all happy she stay home, so they don't have to deal with her. Two days where shits will be done, for once.

Reprogramming_Life · 2017-07-12T23:29:03+00:00

She looks 36 at least.

fmacilvaine · 2017-07-13T01:30:29+00:00

That's so fucking stupid. Mental health. Alright learn to suck it up sometimes

verynormalsimple · 2017-07-13T06:17:04+00:00

I've seen this before. I knew this girl that asked for a week off just because she "wasn't feeling right to work" after her splitting up with her boyfriend. Her boss was female and actually let her.

maszyna · 2017-07-13T06:47:26+00:00

I bet those two days were the most productive in a long time for that team.

Volcanic-Penguin · 2017-07-13T06:47:38+00:00

At my last job my boss would rather have me coughing in the office than be at home. Luckily I don't work there anymore.

starkfuture · 2017-07-13T07:58:49+00:00

If I were the manager I'll move here slowly out of all critical tasks. Not being an asshole, just a good manager. Then at least come layoff time there is a chance of holding some useful people back.

batfish55 · 2017-07-13T11:48:40+00:00

It's her sick leave, so, you know, whatever, but....I need to focus on my mental health? What a beautiful, delicate little snowflake. "Oh, hey, John? We need you to work late tonight to cover for Madalyn."

fearganfadhb · 2017-07-13T12:10:39+00:00

They probably leaked this as a good pr exercise.

glaasjejus · 2017-07-13T12:29:09+00:00

Running my own business for a small decade now, so not relevant to me anymore. However when employed in the past I would never take sick days. But I would just leave the office at random moments and go for a walk or a snack. Never received any criticism for it.

IMHO the key is to let people know you don't give a shit about what they think (and rather quit than adapt) while at the same time being a solid player for the team. My boss and coworkers instinctively knowing that I'm the guy that will stay all night when shit hits the fan - even if that never happened - afforded me a lot of freedom.

Stig_Stigma · 2017-07-13T13:16:42+00:00

If it is NOT a government job, but a private sector job, we shouldn't care. Let the moron run his business as he wishes. He eventually will be non-competitive and fail.

cashmoney_x · 2017-07-13T14:20:30+00:00

This is why they make less money.

cashmoney_x · 2017-07-13T14:22:43+00:00

She has 'PTSD' because the air conditioner broke that one summer.

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