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At this point what's the fucking point of going back if they're making it this fucking difficult. I don't fucking care about the positions requirements. My disability is the same if not WORSE now since I started my work leave. This whole fucking system is backwards. If you hire someone, realize that they might get a fucking disability. That's a risk you fucking take.
That's on YOU as the employer. I'm so fucking mad right now.
If you’re too sick to go to school, then you’re too sick to go out and play...
Which actually means “how sick can you possibly be?” I just had the adult version of this conversation with my mother. I work for an AMAZING company that has been incredibly accommodating and understand of both my mental and physical health issues. Part of those accommodations is that I pretty much work from home whenever I “want”. To be honest, I never WANT to work from home. I really love my job. I have the world’s best coworkers. I work for a company a can stand behind and not want to hurl myself off of a cliff because they’re some unethical greedy corporate monster AND they pay me fairly and provide excellent benefits.
Thanks to technology, me working remotely is no biggie. In fact, we have several people who don’t even live in the LA-area who are in critical roles and are remote 100%. What I can’t do remotely though is attend the work Halloween party. My analyst and I had planned a coordinated costume thing and I was really hoping that my pain levels would be low enough that I could go into the office tomorrow and told my mom this because I was excited and happy and hopeful (even though I haven’t gotten my pain below a 5/6 in a month or so it feels like).
“Don’t you worry about how that will appear if you only show up for the fun stuff?”
BITCH. I show up every single god damn day. I login and work a minimum of 8 hours a day. I have been rated as an Outstanding employee despite needing accommodations because I still go above and beyond in my role. I can do my job and then some. Sure, it means I have pretty much nothing left of myself BUT I love the work that I do and honestly, as nerdy as it sounds, it is my passion. Hell, I am even one of the three leads of our Inclusion Community of Practice to help establish guidelines and best practices to ensure we have an inclusive environment and I am focusing on making sure that physical and psychological accessibility is a addressed and that we destigmatize mental health issues.
Anyhow, I broke down into tears and sobbed for the first time in a while so I guess that’s good. I dunno. I’m just raw I guess.
How is it possible...
To wake up so tired every god damn day? I used to be a morning person. My whole life. I still wake up pretty early but instead of jumping out of bed, I slowly drag myself around the apartment like some old ghost...haunting only myself.
I took my Adderall and made a pot of French press coffee and still feel like I could sleep for another day straight. Btw, I did that once. I called out on like a Wednesday morning and didn’t wake up until Thursday afternoon and was so confused by the texts from my boss and the guy that works for me asking where I was. I was all... “but I called out?!” Thankfully they’re super understanding and my boss actually encouraged me to get intermittent FMLA and work accommodations so that if that happens, my job is protected. My boss has gotten calls from my friends when I’ve been in the ER and unable to talk and she also has chatted with me when I was 5150’d. Pretty understanding boss to be calling those psych unit pay phones because her head of finance went looney tunes again. That being said, I did complete a year-end close from my hospital room when I had biliary dyskinesia and had to have my gallbladder taken out so she knows I’m committed!
My makeshift hospital office. December 2016. Cedars-Sinai. 😂
As July is Disability Pride Month, with one in five working U.K. adults living with a disability, now is the perfect reminder to businesses and employers to actively support employees with disabilities
Today I listened to my workplace's disability dept (basically they're here to make disabled people life better, and to negociate better terms for them)
and what do you mean I could get financial help for a diagnosis?? I could get up to 4 days off for medical exams ???
I could get someone to help me with my autism at work ??
I knew I'd get accomodations, because I'm filing for it at the moment, but I didn't know it would be to THAT extent
and they have resources for autism like what ?
I hate capitalism, I don't like working, but from the choices I had ? I'm glad they already know how to accommodate for my disability because I fucking don't myself
i've always cried too easily. in the last 2 years at work, it's happened 2-3 times and my boss doesn't understand at all. she keeps telling me if i don't learn to not cry, i'll never get a promotion, which i very much need. right now i can't get an official autism dx so i can't ask for accommodations. is there any other dx i could seek that might help me get accommodations for crying that won't out me as nd? i'm an adult and i live in the usa, if that makes a difference. thank you so much!
While I don’t have an autism dx on the record at work, and I’ve not said anything about being autistic, I am fairly certain my bosses think I’m autistic. Aside from like four other people, I’ve been at the store longer than anyone else. Everyone above me has been there a few months- and my accommodations were already in place when they arrived. So that may play into how they handle my accommodations.
What my bosses are aware of though, is that I have anxiety (this was the first thing I made them aware of, mostly because anxiety and panic attacks were pretty common when I started and got overwhelmed easily) and that I have PTSD. If I start looking like I’m getting frazzled or overwhelmed, they tell me to sit down and drink something, or just take my break and eat. I’m given some leeway in terms of having a routine I need, and everyone just accepts that I have my drive thru and that nobody messes with the way I do things in it. (Again, it helps that I am a manager, I’ve been there two years, and I’m really good at what I do.- I’m invaluable, so they accommodate me easier than someone who doesn’t send the store into panic when they don’t show up).
I’ve also got blood pressure and fainting problems and have migraines. Since they’ve frequently made me call in sick one day wit mostly zero warning and then be fine the next, and are something I have to be mindful of while at work (I’ve had to just sit down or lay on the floor while at work because of a dizzy spell and wearing sunglasses inside because of the lights) I’ve also made those known and have accommodations for them.
I rely on scripting for all the customer interaction, and coworker interaction is just brushed off as me being endearingly awkward. My routine is half me being quirky and half anxiety accommodation because it makes me anxious when it is broken. Sensory issues I can either explain as anxiety or migraine related (or they’re just a quirky me thing to people.)
I’ve broken down crying at least three times since we got our current GM. I’m still left in charge of the store when the people above me leave.
(It’s also easier on me since these accommodations are things that have been in place when my bosses have come into the store, and new hires have been made. It’s how things are, and I’m pretty open about having anxiety, blood pressure problems, and migraines. Fast food has a really high turn over.)
I will say though that due to my anxiety my boss doesn’t think I could handle a step up into the next level of management. I know I couldn’t handle it either and I don’t want it. (12 hour shifts and a paycut, no thank you.) I am happy where I am. I don’t want more responsibility.
So basically, think of what other disabilities you have that could also get you the accommodations you need, and then figure out what gets you what you need. Or figure out which ones are going to be the most relevant to needing accommodations and go for those.
- Os
