Ditching work for no reason except you Just Don't Care - C/D?

At least being winter I can lie and say I am sick, and half the office have been down like flies the last week or so, so it doesnt look so bad. But still. I feel so lame :(

stop feeling lame and enjoy your day off!!!

I think I'm going to write some music.

I absolve you.

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It's about the sweetest thing ever.

Hahaha I should know ILX would come through and assuage my guilt ;D

Somehow mundane experiences seem 1k better in this context.

Indeed. I am about to have A BATH! In the middle of the morning! BECAUSE I CAN OK. Awesome.

that's hot, enjoy it!!!

"I'm at the gas station. BUT IT ISN'T WORK. Man this gas station has never been better. Uh-oh, that man is trying to steal cans of High Gravity. What a great day."

C - I did this on Monday, just because I had a hangover/headache. Next week I may do it again if I am crippled by this "fun" run on Sunday.

see, i usually waste calling in days on 'i just felt like it' and then when i DO have a hangover, i be like.... DAMN cause i wish i hadn't called in for no reason before!

if you're gonna do some work from home, and you're not really needed at your actual physical place of work anyway, you have ZERO reason to feel guilty - enjoy it! i wish i could take the day (and night off). i have awful hacking cough, streaming nose, fucked shoulder, and sleep deprivation. hospo/retail peoples can't take days off, not without suffering the consequences.

I'm not the kind of person who can get away with taking days off right now (3rd week into a new job) but even so, I knew my presence largely wasn't needed today and did not understand why I couldn't just be at home. It was a bad, boring stupid morning of some kind of idiotic pep talk training class that was so condescending and moronic, you know, like it should have been done by folks in Human Resources but I smelled a Marketing degree somehwere in there. And they had the gall to suddenly play these snippets of energetic happy optimistic music at a volume that told you they were trying to make a point. I was barely awake at 8 AM and very depressed and I've never been so indifferent to hear B-52's "Love Shack".

I am genuinely amazed that I can feel like absolute shit for hours at work (sleepy, groggy, depressed etc.), but as soon as I step out the door I am cured of all my ailments--for at least 30 seconds.

wow i did this today. Just could not muster the strength to leave the house.

It's not a big deal though, my supervisor is away and no one else will miss me.

"could not muster the strength to leave the house" = OTM

That's what I was doing a lot of at my old job.

Yeah Roz thats exactly how I felt.

And as the day's passed Ive now gone from lively, to thoughtful, to slothly, to down, to miserable, to I Just Signed Onto Facebook.

I used to do this quite a lot (depression, mostly), then nearly got fired for it (yay unsympathetic bosses), then realised I might not care about the job but I do care about getting paid, which is why I drag my sorry ass in even when I can't be arsed. They're paying me to be there, I'll be there. Even when I have nothing to do (though that's what they invented the internet for, isn't it?).

Yeah, hence my guilt. I'unno. I am not happy with my job and havent been for some time. Its confusing, the company is being run kind of badly, and I'm held responsible for biggish things when I'm not treated or paid anything remotely like a manager or higher up. I need another job.

oh man, that sounds pretty shit Trayce. have you thought about looking around for a new job? Although I hate that whole process of looking for one - resumes, and interviews and all that.

But really you shouldn't feel so bad today, enjoy your day off! put some music on, watch a dvd...

I actually quite like my job, I'm just being a lazy bitch at the mo.

Trayce, my sensible advice would be to stick it out (what's your sick pay system like over there, can you go off sick for a bit while you get yourself in a better frame of mind?). I'm guessing, and apologies if I'm wrong, that you aren't in the most positive, go-getting, state right now, and that may affect your choices. I've done the "take a job just to get out of a job" thing a few times, and it hasn't worked ever because I've lost sight of whatever is really wrong with the job, and hence I've jumped into new job exactly the same way I did the old one, and am crying with OMG GET ME OUT OF HERE-ness three months in because nothing's changed except the scenery.

In terms of your actual work right now, have you a manager/HR department you can speak to about your workload and responsibilities? If you're off sick and depressed and your work is exacerbating it, then they pretty much have to do something about it.

DON'T ENABLE HER!

Today OTOH, nothing at all is the matter with me.

BUt you stated that at times you felt really depressed. So how much is this "just a blue day" and not a constant state of depression? Even when you have better days, depression can still linger and remain in the background. Or are you feeling down because of your job? If it is connected, like Ailsa mentions, then I would certainly address it with your superiors. Confront them with your feelings. Maybe you're skipping work because of this and this can easily be solved. Well, maybe not easily....

Its a little of all of those things rly.

Shush Mikey ;P

I wouldn't worry about it too much, Trayce, just skip a day. Don't feel guilty about it. once in a while we have to *rebel*. :-)

(But still talk to your superiors about the workload!)

If a job is making you so unhappy that you can't even drag yourself in, it is probably time to look for a new job.

Unless you're just being avoidant about certain things at that job bringing you down. If they are changeable, do your best to talk to someone and get them changed. If they are permanent problems, then it's a fatal error, and it's time to get another job.

However, if your dissatisfaction with work is symptomatic of a wider depression in your life, well, that's a different story. It's easy to blame your unhappiness on a job, because you are there 8 hours or more a day, which is a huge whack of your life. But it's the bits outside of work that make life worthwhile, and give you the strength to get through an otherwise awful but standable job. If this is the case, work on making changes in the outside-of-work bit of your life.

But still, sometimes a day off as a Mental Health Day can work wonders and give you time out to work out which the problem is.

Trayce, I know everyone's being nice to you here, and I *do* sympathise (having been there myself not that long ago), but encouraging you to skive off work isn't really terribly practical advice. Sorry for being all sensible and shit, but if you're looking for a new job further down the line, you don't want your record at your current employer to look like you just don't come in because you can't be arsed. Either get a note from your doctor saying you have a valid medical reason for not going, or go.

If a job is making you so unhappy that you can't even drag yourself in, it is probably time to look for a new job.

I have finally realized this and am now looking for something else. My hatred of my job runs so deep it colors my entire mood. If I didn't need the money, I'd walk out right now.

iirc - she did try to quit this job at least once before!
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I'm really wondering if this is the case. I can be in the best mood, but after eight hours here, I just want to stab myself in the eyeball.

Of course, this is due to boredom and frustration, rather than maybe just this job in specific. And boredom and frustration might be an inherent part of most jobs that would be on offer to me.

It's just a balance thing. I suppose I need to think about how much *more* unhappy I've been at other jobs.

I am working from home today. I'm actually working, the intent was to focus on fixing some code without people bothering me all the time. What has happened is that about 2/3 of my time has been taken up writing detailed replies to managers explaining what I am working on because my workplace is chaos.

hahahahahahaha

my boss treats her workers kind of shitty but she also never ever fires them so i am not going today!

oh, no, i feel kind of bad cuz she called me and said that coworker 1 is in the hospital and coworker 2 is on vacation so she is all alone and now she has to deal with a business full of annoyed customers because she is understaffed and i know what a bitch that is cuz i do it all the time

sucker