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Here is a follow up for my post from yesterday how work fucking sucks.
Thank you [CyberLithiumAngel] LiveFreeOrDie [wurdalak] for your likes and thank you [Whittier] for commenting. *hugs back* It meant a lot, thank you.
For whatever reason, one can't like or comment anonymously so that's why I didn't do that. I am not trying to reveal myself.
I was sent home early yesterday at work due to being sick and i talked to my manager that I wasn't going into work the next day. Well... I got a call today saying that there was no call-out, and that no one showed up for my shift.
I have a feeling that i might be written up or fired.
I know that seems overdramatic, but I, unfortunately, have called out many times this month and last month due to illness, insomnia and horrible mood swings because of my bipolar. I am already applying to different jobs, but man, I have been switching jobs more frequently as of recently and it's becoming a little disheartening at this point. I want something stable for now so I can stabilize myself.

It seems a FB friend that was one of my best friends irl about 15 years ago when I lived in another state has gone full SJW. She posted a rant the other day that anyone who eats at Chick-Fil-A is basically an evil bastard on par with Leatherface and an "LGBTQ+ enemy" because Chick-fil-A donates a percentage of their profits to conversion therapy. Another friend then asked her if we should all ditch our smartphones because they use lithium batteries, and by her logic owning one means you support child labor and other not so great issues surrounding said batteries. Her reply was that it was not at all similar and that nobody needs Chick-Fil-A's food, but "in today's world you can't survive without a smartphone" - she actually said that. I agree with the basic premise that not owning a smartphone makes a good many things harder than they need to be, but lack of smartphone is quite survivable. Do these people really think wild exaggerations like that are helping their case or winning anyone over to see their side? It seems to me like it would do the opposite, as they're making themselves look like raving lunatics whose views can be disregarded- and arguably should be, as they're spouting unhinged nonsense. Rather than convince me to boycott the place, she made me wish there was one anywhere near me.