Posted by helpme on July 9, 2006, at 20:21:21
I lost my job last year, "quit/fired" from an office so stressful, manipulative, and heinous no one can hardly believe it anyway, and I will spare details. And there was a ridiculous turnover, so it wasn't just me with a problem, but I was the dummy who stayed long enough to totally, utterly fry out to point where I vomited each day before work, at work, had panic attacks at work, etc, etc. Called in sick all the time- forced to make up all those hours despite ridiculous number of sick days accrued. I took several emergency properly documented fmlas due to stress, one a hospital stay- but was still reprimanded for "not giving advance notice for this absence". I was not allowed any days off, "because we are short staffed. Dedicated, or not?". Finally incapacitated by this nightmare, I just resigned, "effective immediately" for "health reasons". Just walked away. Not a chance in hell I could have done any two-week notice, let alone finish another hour.
The experience shattered my self-confidence job-wise, (and in general), I have no references from there, and they listed me as "fired". I'm utterly broke, even taking money from mom now.
I hate myself sometimes for being retarded enough to stay that long there, thinking it would get better.I have no one to be a reference for me, and I worked there for 5 years. (The staff was eventually forced to spy on each other by the management- so everyone ended up hating everyone else. And the management hated all of us, and I technically quit with no notice-and was fired a week later for doing so. And human resources didn't really care, despite many complaints from many people.)
Any legal action would be too much drama and traumatic, I think, and I didn't have the strength to do anything anyway.
I need a new job badly. I am kind of ready to look- but it is a full year later. How on earth do I explain in an interview what I've been up to? I anticipate, "What exactly have you been doing this last year? Why did you leave your previous position?"
How would I answer that? I can't come out and say, "Complete mental health meltdown and incapacitation!"
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