WTF Wednesdays- The Evil Empire

I was hired onto my first job at the age of 16 and at the time thought said job should feel lucky to have me, and so I took advantage by calling in sick when I was not sick and generally not caring about my attendance. I have always been a good worker and given much more effort than many of my peers when there, but in those early days I thought a job was more a right than privilege.

I have since changed my tune which helps in these tough economic times where any job is better than no job at all, even when you must work for a massive corporation who enjoys destroying small business and eating small kittens. Im kidding about enjoying the destruction of small business of course, they feel terrible when that happens. I have become a responsible adult who understands that if I do not show up to do my job someone must still do that job, so it really bugs me when another grown person does not see how much their lack of effort and irresponsible ways harms everyone and not just themselves.

There are coworkers at my place of work that rarely show up and when they do it is merely to stand around and have a good time rather than work, which essentially means these people are absent more than they are actually at work and when they actually show up it is to get paid for doing nothing. So I am stuck doing their jobs whether they show up or not, yet because I am such an efficient worker hell rains down upon me from upper management if I happen to call in sick. So My lazy coworkers zombie their way through life without consequence while I do their job, my good work ethic not rewarded but instead punished because it is expected of me.

Why these people are not punished because nothing is expected of them while I am held to a higher standard and not benefiting from it at all is beyond me, and I humbly ask WTF IS UP WITH THAT?