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Originally Posted by PT52
Okay...started out the day content; things have been going well lately. Then I got fired, and I honestly didn't deserve it. I kept my cool til I was in the car, then I was angry...really angry. I've only been on Lamictil for 5 weeks and it's working really well. I believe that my boss has had it in for me from before the medication, and I admit there was some basis. But I was open and honest with her, haven't missed a day of work, did a great job and even accepted it when I was refused reasonable accommodations. I was given a "Performance Improvement Plan" a week after starting the new medication and since then, I have really been the good employee. The reasons they gave me for termination weren't even valid. So now I'm depressed. On the phone with my brother who is also bipolar and a lawyer...he's not helping much  giving me all the "reality checks" about how the system just sucks. Well, anyway, I've quit crying so that's good. I filed for unemployment, called a few lawyers and now I'm going to do homework in a self-improvement class that I signed up for as part of my commitment to doing a better job. Anybody seeing the irony in this? Think I'll go play with my dogs for awhile instead...
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You might want to check out your rights from your local NAMI - National Alliance of the Mentally Ill. They are a great advocacy group. You might have a case against your former employers I wish you all the best
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Lauru-------------That's me, Bipolar and Watching TV
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
---Robert Frost
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