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[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 142 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I worked with someone who did this. It was the HR person. She just didn't show up one day, didn't answer her phone or door. For a solid week. After a wellness check by the police, it was revealed that she was fine, just couldn't go back in to work because she hated her job so much.

I was young, and it was a shitty grocery chain filled with shitty management and shitty customers. I 100% thought she had killed herself, or skipped town for some other awful reason. It was a relief to hear she was OK. Fuck that store.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you ok yourself? Do you still work there?

You sound like a good person, wish you two were friends so she might not be as depressed.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I am in a much better environment! This was about 10 years ago, and that particular store closed. I also ghosted that job. They had been harassing my trans coworker friend so we just stopped showing up. They did NOT try to call me :)

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This guy fucks, what a kind soul

Don't you ever stop being you, you're needed.

[–] match@pawb.social 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what if we organized the workers but instead of striking we all just don't show up and gaslight the regional management into thinking everything's fine

Because the store management isn't going to organize with us rabble. It's also hard to mimic the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of sales that regional looks at in their accounts. Pulling the wool over their eyes on that level is getting into bank fraud territory, and would require the aid of, and not just also not showing up, of bank workers.