Work is slow.
It was meant to be a self depreciating joke, but now I can’t help myself. I think this topic ends up having everybody involved make a bunch of assumptions about each other before it begins.
However, I have experienced people say that they, “don’t want to get political,” right after being confronted for saying something misinformed, hurtful, etc. It can be weaponized as an excuse to avoid self reflection.
I know that isn’t the case for everybody, but I have seen, “don’t make things political,” used as, “don’t bring in politics at odds with my own.” It’s often not even recognized by that person as being hypocritical. Sometimes our own politics can become the default in our mind and everybody else’s view is the “political” one.
Your apathy is part of the problem.
Yes, I am that friend/relative.
I’ll give both a shot just in case.
My current job is great about leave requests, but it’s taken me three years to finally get comfortable using it. Every other job I had would either make a fuss or guilt workers for using leave.
On top of that, I had the idea that you have to go to school or work sick unless you can’t get up passed down to me from my parents. They meant well. They were teaching me how to deal with the types of work environments they knew.
Toxic work culture can be so widespread that it sticks with you.
After reading I now appreciate David Gerard’s dedication.