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Took a sick day from work. I felt sick last night but could have powered through it. It's largely a mental health day if anything. Using it to finish up paperwork and stuff I need to get done.

I always feel guilty when taking a sick day. Do you guys feel the same way?

Never. Feeling guilty for taking a sick day when you are sick is toxic Americana. Our horrendous work/life balance kills. "Mental health day," lol this country.

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Even though I feel guilty, it's never been towards the company it's always been towards my teammates who need to pick up my slack. I've also considered myself lucky enough to always work in positions where I have a great w/l balance and am encouraged to take time of whenever I feel like it. But I still feel guilty.
I also felt guilty for missing school when I was sick growing up.

Atheist/Agnostic from birth

My current job is extremely high stress so sick days are pretty much required. I've taken I think 6 or 7 days off since mid October, and am going on vacation again in 2 weeks. I don't feel bad one bit.

that’s one way to say ‘unemployed’.

is it great?

i’d rather be the millionaire with an actual life tbh.

It has been added to your permanent record. I'm looking at my notes and unfortunately the 318 snuff videos you watched this week have a considerable negative impact on your overall score.

You're gonna need a lot of reps on the rosary just to come out positive this week. How many students ya got?

What makes blue collar work particularly precarious is that they are one injury away from being destitute. I can hobble around the building with one foot. If I worked on cars still...I am not making it to work with one foot.

I said in another thread that I would sooner cut my wrist than work on cars again. I mean it. I would literally commit suicide if it came to it.

I think it is an almost reasonable trade off. Educators and academics have jobs that are fairly cushy compared to most other service and blue collar jobs. There are also a lot of perks to being an academic or teacher that are intangible. Few people proudly put "mechanic" on their dating profile.

That said of course we could live in a world where everyone is compensated fairly and no one feels bad about their job. But we aren't there yet.

i should say that i don't really think there's much profit in pitting blue-collar against white-collar in any case. in all respects they are both working peoples and not part of the capitalist order that owns things and runs the show. lower-middle class blue collar types have more in common with bougie academics (and homeless drug-addicts, criminals, and racial minorities, for that matter) than they do with the ruling-class elites they so often (mis)identify with.

in that sense i just meant it as a point of comparison, nothing more. there is absolutely zero convincing reason why the world's richest countries cannot pay all their workers equitably and still have plenty left to spare. if countries like the netherlands can even afford to pay their PhD students a decent living wage - let alone making education free, considered as a right/service rather than a commodity - then i'm sure fucking superpowers or world-leading institutions can carry it off too.

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Blue collar people punch down on services all the time. Usually it's because they "make less money," so they must be an inferior breed. "Not everyone can do what we do!" Bruh, you're like on your 30th smoke break this hour, you would collapse in retail or burger flipping.

This is really no mystery. There has been a toxic waft against "unskilled labor" from right wing media for a long time, just as against "educated elites" (the ExPeRtS). Blue collars watch a lot of Fox and (listened) to a lot of Rush.

Everyone here's seen Office Space, yeah? That movie vibed with a lot of blue collar. "Get out of your BS white collar job and go into construction, the objectively best non-BS job!" It's really weird to me too that the film's been talked to me about in that light. It's as white collar as it is blue collar. People even in grunt-level construction and contracting have to deal with a lot of their own BS, multiple bosses, sometimes clunky printers. "Did you take the before and after pictures, text them over!" At the upper levels of the biz, on the phone all the time. Drama between cities and properties, inspectors asking for the mathematically impossible. "Can you find and resend me an email you sent at sometime between 2011 and 2014?"

For people in it on their own, crippling taxations and requirements to meet administrative overhead. Grow or die.

I guess it's nice that they got a movie that made them feel happy about their jobs though.

there is absolutely zero convincing reason why the world's richest countries cannot pay all their workers equitably and still have plenty left to spare.

You could probably afford to rent a pretty nice park bench with that money though. Don't be greedy!