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Old Dec 19, 2011, 10:32 PM
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Hi, so this is a job question. Not sure if anyone can answer or if this is the right place.

I have bipolar and my job is informed. I'm supposed to have set up "accommodations" which I did with HR trying to go the friendly rout. This was two years ago. However, in that time I have been written up multiple times because my bipolar causes quite a bit of disorganized thinking. My boss is a super high-strung organizational neat freak. When things get hard for me, I just can't function at the level she desires. I just can't do it physically or mentally, not that I don't want to. I'd love to not have the problems I do. Every write up I get that is a direct result of a problem linked to my illness I put in my medical chart because I don't know what else to do with them, and I want to keep a record.

Well, I am also currently pregnant and due in 3 weeks. Pregnancy also plays a roll in this, being this pregnant seems to mess with your mind, too.

Anyway, they can't do anything to me while pregnant. But she did come up to me and verbally state that if I don't pull it together and "focus," that they would force me to take early maternity leave, which I can't afford to do financially.

The main issue right now is that I leave in 3 weeks. I'm training a temp. I'm trying to complete all the projects that they have starting in the new year, which are all very large and complicated projects, and also the normal duties of my job. I think even non-disabled people would be feeling overwhelmed right now at my job.

So... does this sound wrong? Or do they have the right to force me to take early maternity leave?
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