Not Having A Partner Apparently Means I Don't Exist And I Have No Human Rights

 
Up until where I work now, I have never worked for a company where it was acceptable for someone else to call in sick on your behalf. If you are sick, you should be the one to phone in sick. The only exception is if you are in the hospital. Well, where I work your husband or wife is allowed to call in sick for you, and if your husband or wife works at the company you do not have to call in sick at all, and your partner does not have to tell management that you are off sick, unless someone asks. There was a discussion about this today that got me very angry. I said that if you are sick, you should be the one to call in sick. Then HR and the Works manager started going on about people who have phone anxiety, and how they shouldn’t be made to call in sick. I have phone anxiety. I always come into work when I am sick, because I can’t phone in sick. Then HR said that you shouldn’t have to call in sick yourself, because what if you were asleep. I said, you get up yourself and you phone in sick. HR then replied, “But everyone has someone that can call in for them, even Darren,” (Darren is the only person in the company who is divorced, but he lives with his friend). I wanted to kill her. So, I don’t exist then? I am not a human being. I already know that I am not allowed to take any days off, because I am not spending it with my family, my spouse or my child, but now I don’t count as a person because I don’t have a wife or a husband to call in sick for me, I am trying to leave this company. I have been trying since January, but over the past few days, being here has got me so angry, I wish it was legally acceptable to kill someone, because blood would be shed. I don’t think I have ever been more angry. Because I am choosing to not have a partner, why do I lose my human rights? Why am I less of a person? I am not an angry person, but I am so incredibly angry that you could cook food on me and it would burn to a crisp.