Karen Boss Calls Me Lazy After I Pass out From Exhaustion at Work
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled Karen of a boss screamed at me that I was lazy on the job after I passed out from |
| 0:06.1 | exhaustion. And now I'm honestly just so glad I don't work at that job anymore because that |
| 0:11.5 | boss truly was the worst thing I've ever dealt with in my life. Here's what happened. Years back, |
| 0:16.9 | I worked in COVID testing and we were massively understaffed for the workload. I'm talking like |
| 0:22.2 | three people doing roughly 2,000 tests a day. I was working six days a week from 8 in the morning |
| 0:27.9 | until 2 o'clock in the morning almost every single day, and the earliest I would leave would maybe be 10 o'clock |
| 0:33.7 | p.m. And on top of that, we would maybe get an hour break somewhere near 4 o'clock p.m. |
| 0:39.1 | After a few months of this, it started taking a toll on my body. I developed severe nerve pain |
| 0:44.2 | in my face and tremors down my right side. It got so bad my father who lives abroad, demanded |
| 0:50.4 | that my boyfriend take me to the ER to get checked out because I was so busy I couldn't bring myself to go. And I didn't do it, knowing that my boyfriend take me to the ER to get checked out because I was so busy I couldn't |
| 0:55.3 | bring myself to go and I didn't do it knowing that my boss would lecture me for lost time. Well, |
| 1:01.1 | I go to the ER and immediately get out in fluids and I'm given a litany of antidepressant medications |
| 1:06.7 | as well as medications for the pain. I was also given Valium with no prescription, and my doctor |
| 1:12.4 | literally just said, ah, take one, and if you can still feel things, take a second one, and see if you |
| 1:17.5 | can sleep. Well, after that, I go back to my shift at 12 o'clock p.m., completely exhausted, |
| 1:22.9 | but knowing I was in for a lecture from my boss. As I walk into the lab, my boss screeches at me, grabs me |
| 1:29.1 | by the shoulder, and told me I was lazy and irresponsible for calling in late, that there was |
| 1:34.5 | so much work that we needed to do, and that she was docking my hours at the emergency room from my pay. |
| 1:40.4 | I told her that I was going to finish this shift, because I didn't want to leave my team high and dry, but I would need a few days to recover. |
| 1:47.9 | Well, when I said that, she went red. She said to me, your generation is doomed to be lazy, inconsiderate jerks with no respect. |
| 1:56.0 | She then took my phone from my lab coat, even though I was waiting for a specialist to call me about a possible |
| 2:01.6 | surgery I might need due to nerve damage, and she said to me, your generation acts like children, |
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