therestlessintrovert:

tchalisew:

chilling-princess:

tchalisew:

hoeswithclothes:

tchalisew:

tchalisew:

I really hate that people think I’m being dramatic when I say I can’t work on the first day of my period. I spend a large portion of the first day with unbearable cramps that leave me shaking and sweating and vomiting. And the fucking management acts like I’m calling off to go play fucking bocce ball.

Like everyone just goes “oh just take some medicine and shake it off” do you really think if it was easy as popping a couple midol, I’d miss eight hours worth of money?

I feel this deeply in my soul, bc my period causes me to call out too. The vomiting & sweating is real OMG

My job literally CREATED NEW RULES this month to try and prohibit me from calling off. It’s like three times in three months is ground for disciplinary action and five times in six months is termination. Since June I’ve left early once and called off twice. I don’t know what I can do to show them that I’m not playing hookey. I’m lying in my bed for 24 hours rocking back and forth.

My sister had a similar problem, what she did was show up to work (all miserable, sweaty, vomity and crampy) and was sick and miserable at work. The manager was like “why are you so bad at your job?” And she said “because I’m on my fucking period and this is what it does to me, so how about you let me have days off when I need them because my health isn’t a fucking game”

I’ve done something similar twice. The first time, my supervisor sent me home about three hours into my shift after I spent half of it in the break room drenched in sweat, laid out on some chairs. The second time she said “you’ve been leaving your station a lot since you got here and I’m wondering how much work you’re actually getting done.” I explained that I kept getting up because my cramps were so severe that I had to leave every now and again to doing small things like drink water to keep from overheating and passing out. Of course that resulted in me needing to leave to throw the water up, so… And she said “I understand that you don’t feel well, but you need to remember that when you’re here, you put personal things aside, because it’s not about you; it’s about the company”

You probably have Endometriosis. Please see a physician asap so that you can build a health plan that allows you to maintain a job, for example I take hormone therapy via birth control pills to prevent my period altogether (because Endometriosis is poorly researched (and has an average diagnose time of 9 years—meaning most people aren’t diagnosed in spite of symptoms for nearly TEN YEARS because diagnosis does require surgery) and unfortunately the hormone therapy (via birth control pills) option is one of the better ones for someone like me with stage 4– although it increases your risk of cancer, etc.) Even though Endometriosis isn’t legally defined as a disability, it is a chronic medical condition that you can sue on the basis of for termination/dismissal from your job. More than likely, if they’re making rules out of the blue, those rules aren’t legal in all actuality and you could sue in the event that you are terminated— obviously you would need to seek out a lawyer for the technicalities. Don’t believe the hype, these sort of menstrual cycle related problems are NOT normal, and there are options to make things better before they get worse. (also, fuck the people at your job)