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Originally Posted by Charl S
I was lucky to get this job when my previous company got liquidated....then I fell into a depression.
Now I've realized how much I hate this place.
Everytime you take a day's sick leave you get such a lecture when you get back, the anxiety it causes to phone in sick is worse than the illness itself. I was hospitalized for two weeks when I got major depression and when I returned I was questioned by my boss why I didn't disclose my depression status. It felt like I was being discriminated against, and I had to beg to keep my job. My boss hasn't once asked me how I feel, am I doing ok or am I coping. It's clear what happens to you here doesn't matter as long as it doesn't interfere with work.
I am so tired of having to fake feeling ok and getting up everyday NO MATTER HOW CRAPPY I FEEL. I have to put on this fake smile and pretend I'm ok because I know I am being tested.
I wish I could find something better, I am so tired of being treated like a number.
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Sorry, you are feeling, that way, about your job, and yes, being grilled for sick leave, is no fun.
When someone else's depression, affects me, at work, however, perhaps, it's not about being treated like a number, but the amount of extra stress, it places on me.
I am dealing with this, this week...even tomorrow, ALL week. I've had to work with one of my bosses, several times, in the past two months, and frankly, the joy of my new location was to minimize the amount of time I spend with any of my immediate supervisors. Perhaps, that's not the case for you. But I lost valuable minutes to my day, today, and yesterday, and Tuesday, and will tomorrow, due to someone elses depression leave. Which doesn't qualify as fmla or any of that sort.
Thing is, I also, have depression. And anxiety. And MS.