#time off

Well, 48% of you said I should take some time off. Having done the whole burnout thing last year, it’s probably good advice.

I finally have some days off, so I spent an hour updating my travel journal, took out ALL of my stickers and realized I've created just a little bit of chaos 💀

Bodybuilder Choi Hanjin posted four photos of Taehyung, one featuring him alongside Jungkook (😭😭) and actor Song Kang on IG! Hanjin uses Tae’s “Slow Dancing” audio and captions his post as follows:

“I can't believe the two young men my wife watches in videos every day are right in front of me, haha. Calm yet strong energy, and you can feel the sincerity in every aspect of his attitude towards exercise!! On top of that, he has great strength too!! Even during military service, you could tell how diligently he had taken care of himself without even saying a word. “If you were okay with my last routine... I'll stick to the same for the next one~!!!” - (V). (The song (I think slow dancing) I heard a lot in the car because of my wife... Aren't you jealous, wife?? Haha)”

CT: @mybwits

He also posts the same batch of photos a second time, this time without a caption or music, tagging Tae’s and Bam’s (Jk’s dog) Instagram pages.

Once again, this shows we only see so much on social media, as without this post we wouldn’t have necessarily known Jk had worked out with Tae during their military leave (we had theorized they were spending time together based on their recent individual sightings in public, but this confirms it!) They both look amazing, happy and healthy. Even with his face as covered as it is, you can tell Jungkook is sooo happy (that eye smile 🥹).

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJLsXFjSdPS/?igsh=MnB4NDRsZGYwczc0

I let my boss know that this was an issue, and that I'd get a note for treatment. When's my procedure? It's not that kind of thing. It's the exact same thing I said the first time: The treatment is two months keeping my finger in a splint, entirely straight, to give the tendon a chance to heal.

So I went to the doctor and got a note a few weeks later. The treatment is two months keeping my finger in a splint, entirely straight, to give the tendon a chance to heal. Two months of adjustments of work, or if they couldn't manage that, two months off.

Despite me handing in that note, it took over three weeks for my manager to speak to my area manager about it. What's the treatment? He doesn't know. When is the procedure again.

It's the same it's ever been: The treatment is two months keeping my finger in a splint, entirely straight, to give the tendon a chance to heal.

The assistant manager is leaving, we don't have another office person. Wouldn't this be the perfect time to train up someone who knows the workplace and knows the systems? We'll never know.

He told me he'd give me until a week the following Monday to get an answer. Around a week and a half. I wait, trustingly and halfway through the day I have no answer.

I ask my assistant manager and he gives me the email for the area manager. I say that he said he'd get back to me that day with a solution, and that I was waiting. Near the end of the day he emailed to call him the next day.

The next day I had had enough and called him to say 'you've had weeks, the splint is going on tonight, what's your choice'.

At that point I'd backed him into a wall and instead of doing to sensible choice of saying 'of course we'll get you in the office, learn the stuff before the AM leaves so we're not in the shit' he just said well, I guess we'll see you in two months, keep us posted.

The longer I didn't treat this injury, the less likely it is to heal. I didn't want to fuck over my manager or my colleagues, even though my manager didn't even bother to mention it to the area manager. The area manager didn't care or appreciate my waiting, my sacrifice, or the fact that prolonging the start of treatment would lessen the chance of efficacy. All I get for my decency and waiting is a lower chance of healing, and a longer time on basic sick pay.

If you're sick: take the time off for you to get better.

If you're injured: take the time off to heal.

Don't wait for other people and assume they'll do the best for you because you're trying to do the best by them.

Just a quick note to say that I will be taking some time off to spend with my family.

Will be back on the queue July 27th/26

Leah 😊

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.