Posted by corafree on July 8, 2006, at 16:36:40
In reply to Losing it, posted by Poet on July 7, 2006, at 9:09:37
Hey Poet.
Think maybe I've been where you are now.
I finally resigned and won unemployment awarded on the basis of 'personal issues', followed by SSD explained below. But, 'I miss work'!
I was a top worker, but my illness precluded perfect attendance.
I know it's a little different ... but it's a little the same.
I was put on probation, hence not allowed to accumulate PTOs (paid time off) at the rate I should have been, not allowed even unpaid time off, and until met certain probationary requirements, seniority and raises brought to a dead halt.
Back to the top, I was a 'top' producer. I mean, I could do in 4 days what it took others to do in 5 days.
Eventually this 'probation harrassment' for something I could not control, my illness, led me to resign, as the stress of it, was 'feeding the already existing illness'.
I then found another job only to be told 1-1/2 weeks later that 'my memory wasn't good enough'. I tried to explain that I learn by doing, not by reading (It was at a university in the summer.), but I knew there was 'another reason' they were letting me go.
I then got a sales job at a bookstore and a couple weeks later, was told 'my hands shook too much'! Think I was on Effexor and Darvocet (my cervical spine/head pain). I never thought, they may have thought, I was using illegal drugs, until someone mentioned it after the fact.
It was at this point that I realized I was actually a person who should apply for SSD and did and was awarded it.
At first I felt relieved and comfortable, but that didn't last .. oh maybe over a year and a half, before, 'I was really missing working' and the realized what value and sense of purpose it had given me. Yep, I miss it!
Where are laws that protect the 'less than perfect employee' anyway? I wish I had sought out more than immediate unemployment benefits and eventually SSD. I wish I had been able to hire an attorney knowledgeable about disability law.
That's what I'm going to try and find out now, five years later. Really.
Good luck w/ your employer . . . I think I know how you feel . . . they got somethin' on ya' and now they're just waiting for you to screw up. Does it feel like harrassment?
Oh, I remembered the word! It's discrimination.
And that's the big question. When is there 'discrimination' legally? How far does extend? Into the workplace?
How about into the family of origin? I'm faced w/ a rather wealthy family putting the screws to me for the second time. I love them, but!
So, I'm going to do some searching re: disability discrimination law and see if there are any applicable cases.
I'd appreciate it, if you or anyone reading this, would let me know, if you know, of anyone, here, or out there, that could/would be an aide, or aid in my search.
bestwishes, cf
poster:corafree
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