F Minus by Tony Carrillo for December 27, 2018

drat

Come back after lunch.

Would an hour be enough?

It’s his meltdown time.

I block out several for that purpose myself, but usually starting around 2:30 in the morning.

Pam and Michael here? Or maybe Pam and Andy? :)

I once had a supervisor that got so tired of hearing us call in sick with these fake coughs and sneezes that she finally had to bring it up in a team meeting. She said something like, "Listen, if you need to take a sick day for mental health reasons (just need a mental break from work, suffering anxiety, etc) all you have to do is tell me it’s for a “mental health reason” and leave it at that. You don’t need to be physically sick to take a sick day so please take care of yourself and leave the acting to the professionals."

So from then on, anytime I needed to take a day or 3 off from work due to depression, anxiety, just mental exhaustion, I would call in and say, “Mental health day” and that’s it. She would mark it down as a sick day (or 3) and it would be done.

I think we all need to pencil that in to our schedules!