The Work Thread
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@macha Slap them. Become part of the cost of abusing the workforce.
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
@faraday I already pointed out to my boss, I have three choices. Let them keep abusing me like this, find a new job, or sue the hell out of them.
I know YOU have, but sometimes it takes hearing it from an external person with more cred. (Not saying that’s right or anything, just how it is.). It can be an intermediate and less costly step than a lawsuit. They also may be able to advise you on how to prepare for a lawsuit should you choose to go that way.
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@faraday said in The Work Thread:
@macha said in The Work Thread:
@faraday I already pointed out to my boss, I have three choices. Let them keep abusing me like this, find a new job, or sue the hell out of them.
I know YOU have, but sometimes it takes hearing it from an external person with more cred. (Not saying that’s right or anything, just how it is.). It can be an intermediate and less costly step than a lawsuit. They also may be able to advise you on how to prepare for a lawsuit should you choose to go that way.
As an alternative: You can hire a firm to send a demand letter. That tends to be both kind of scary and relatively cheap.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp said in The Work Thread:
As an alternative: You can hire a firm to send a demand letter. That tends to be both kind of scary and relatively cheap.
You might even be able to get the firm to do it for free if you elect to give them 50% of whatever money you may be able to squeeze to settle the claim.
As a good general, this is my suggestion:
- Secure new place of employment;
- Have firm send letter;
- Give appropriate notice of departure; and
- Make sure your co-workers know who you hired to smack your soon-to-be-ex-employer.
Because nothing says shitballs than a mountain of lawsuits from the same firm for the same situation.
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I am not sure what a demand letter is, to be honest.
I reached out to HR to see if after they (and the accommodation team) got the letter from my care team, if someone had spoken to the big boss about something that I could do in the interim while the accommodation team reviews and makes it final decision.
I'm being ignored, and it's pissing me off. They're hounding me, insisting I am not in queue. I told them the screen shows I am, I sent a quick text picture to my boss to prove it.
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
I am not sure what a demand letter is, to be honest.
Basically just a letter from a lawyer reminding them that they have an obligation under ADA laws to provide reasonable accommodations and demanding that they do so. (My I-am-not-a-lawyer summary :))
It shows them that you're serious AND that you have legal representation, which is often enough to get them off their butts.
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Well, I have been told it's this or nothing. Other people in my same job are NOT being forced into this, because they've gone back on site to their county offices.
My county hasn't opened back up to full staff, yet. They claim to not have any offices I could go to, either. So I'm stuck doing this, despite the letter from my care team about my anxiety.
"Either get in queue or get a doctor's note" - boss' boss to me after I sugar crashed this morning.
ETA: I pointed out that there /are/ other tasks I could do. Since the people who have been allowed back on site are doing those tasks (which I can and have done while WFH). I'm pretty sure that since they have medical accommodation request/letter/etc, and they keep refusing me even to be a temporary accommodation, that's it a big no-no.
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
Well, I have been told it's this or nothing. Other people in my same job are NOT being forced into this, because they've gone back on site to their county offices.
Other people in your same job aren't entitled to reasonable accommodations under the ADA. You are. So it's not really apples-to-apples.
My experience with is is more from education, not workplace, and I am certainly not a lawyer or an expert. But it really does sound like you need advice from someone who is - either a disability advocate (there are many non-profits across the country) or a workplace lawyer.
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@faraday I have reached out to the local Legal Aid office, to try and get someone. I had a previous ADA case, because a job 'let me go' because 'we feel your sugar crashes make it so we can't rely on you' (In a call center/customer service position). I had warned them a new med I was being put on might make me have unhealthy blood sugars for a few days, while my body adjusts and I make the proper insulin adjustments. I told them on monday, when I was told I was going on this new script. I was let go on Wednesday, after I sugar crashed when my lunch was pushed back 2 hours.
So yeah. I'm so tired of being pushed around.
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@faraday What I meant is other people in my same role/title/tier level, are not being forced into this call taking nonsense. They are doing what my actual job /is supposed to be/.
So it's not that there isn't something else they could let me do.
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Try reaching out to the nearest branch of your state office of civil rights. You can file a complaint there for free that will trigger an investigation. If there’s enough evidence, the state will use an attorney general to handle your case.
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@ganymede Did that. I think I did it right. Here's hoping.
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Surprisingly, I've suddenly been assigned to do something else.
And they want me to deduct the bits and pieces of time today I had to take to deal with sugar crashes, as leave without pay, even though they expected me to be at my computer every second. HAHAHAHAHAAHHA
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
Surprisingly, I've suddenly been assigned to do something else.
This may be considered retaliation. I would make a note of this and the change of assignment.
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@ganymede Oh no, they put me BACK on things I had been doing before they were making me do the anxiety causing thing.
They're actually giving in to what I had asked - but now to see if it lasts.
I wonder if was sending them the multiple screen shots of my crashing blood sugars (I have a CGM/Dexcom, and it records and displays on my phone) that I was sending to my boss.
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
And they want me to deduct the bits and pieces of time today I had to take to deal with sugar crashes, as leave without pay, even though they expected me to be at my computer every second.
The words "fuck off" do not adequately convey how much your bosses need to fuck off.
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Well, i have been taken out of the giant team chats for the Bullshit crap they had me doing.
It seems someone told my boss' boss that they were fucking up and giving me material for a lawsuit.
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@macha said in The Work Thread:
Well, i have been taken out of the giant team chats for the Bullshit crap they had me doing.
This is retaliatory.
It seems someone told my boss' boss that they were fucking up and giving me material for a lawsuit.
And they are continuing to give you material.
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@ganymede No, they took me out of the chat for the work that was causing me anxiety. They took me off that task, and put me back on what I was originally supposed to be doing with the new training.
I went from taking incoming calls with pissed off people back to outreach where I actually get to help people.
This was actually what the accommodation asked for, to put me back on outreach. (Though I know they are hoping I fuck it up so they can write me up for being a PITA)
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Well, as long as you are in a better mental state, that's all that really matters to me.
