11 Affirmations for People Who Feel Anxious When They Call Out of Work
Raise your hand if you feel as if you should call out more for health, but you don’t because you feel guilty and anxious due to living in a capitalistic society where you’re only as good as the work you produce that day, and if you don’t produce work you ultimately feel like a horrible person.
Anyone else raising their hand? I know for a fact that I need to call out for my health more than I do (yes, I do see the hypocrisy), but due to years of working in massive corporations where I was nothing more than a number on an ID, where co-workers and managers would actively be angry if we did call out… you could say that I haven’t exactly been conditioned to prioritize myself first in any scenario, especially health-related ones.
To think they really wondered why I was so burnt out. Hmph. Anyways, I’ll keep it a buck – sometimes I do feel as if we need to push through bad days, as much as I hate it.
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