Thoughts

My needs are not compatible with the needs of the business. My need for a personal day clashes for their need for a payroll clerk on Mondays. Their needs won, despite what I required and what was promised me. My need for ten minutes more sleep and some time to put together something for breakfast fights with the company's need for me to be on time. In this case the company doesn't suffer either way, so I let myself come first. It still doesn't work out so well for me, though. I need to reevaluate; unfortunately I don't think they'll show me much flexibility.

My manager isn't able to stand up for me. Even when she suggests I take a day off, even when she sees how much I need it because I'm shaking so much I can barely write, she still calls me in to work when her manager instructs her to. She may say she's on my side, but that doesn't mean all that much.