'Office Refusal'

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I chose no.

No. My sense of responsibility is too high. I couldn't possibly miss work for anything less than the flu.

It doesnt matter whether I 'feel like' going in to work or not. It is required. I may have gotten no sleep the night before, but I need to go to work.

That's a good way of putting it. It is a rule. I must go to work.
I'm one of those people who are governed by rules and structure. There is no option of not going to work because one doesn't feel like it.

My first job in high school was at gift wrap in a department store and it was only seasonal. I called in sick all the time so I could hang out with my friends or go to a better mall and shop. My father found out and had a long lecture with me about work ethic. I stopped calling in sick for two reasons. One, people did depend on me and I didn't want to be rude. Two, I did want to be like my father and he never called in sick. Since then, I work sick. They send me home. Now I have faked sick when I was going to be late for work and would have gotten in trouble if I showed up late as opposed to calling in sick. I do have a problem with tardiness. No matter how hard I try, it's like the cosmic powers that be just won't let me be on time.

Now, I don't work, but I go to school. I always had a problem skipping class in the past, but now I end up missing class for different reasons than in the past. My problem in the past with school is that I don't need a teacher to learn something. I was fine just doing the assignments and reading the book. But after getting a lot of C's that should have been A's but they were dropped because of absences, I realize that attendence has nothing to do with learning, and neither does the grade obviously.

Now I'm missing class because all summer up to now it's been one of those things where every time I turn around, something is going wrong. Then it snow balls into a big deal no matter what I do to try to avoid that. Like last week, I missed class because I was on the phone for about 4 hours with my bank trying to figure out why a transaction didn't post when it was supposed to and resulted in fees. I did deal with people who were rude to me for no reason, and really stupid people who couldn't read their own computer (like a branch manager...how the b***h got the job is beyond me). Anyway, it's always something like that or a result of bad luck mixed with dealing with jerks. It's not like I had time for school and all this drama to begin with becuase I do have a 1 and 2 year old, and I'm pregnant again. But at the same time, if people would just do their damn jobs, I would be able to make all this fly. It seems to be only me. Something about me attracts jerks who pretend to be decent people, and decent people who refuse to do their job when it comes to me, and really stupid people (I seem to find them too). No wonder my view of the world was always warped in the past. I seem to attract every negative aspect of people in general and it always seems to interfere with my life some way some how. As far as not going to school cause I don't feel like it, I kind of like it because my kids aren't there to interrupt me.