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tiny-feisty-gay · 6 months ago

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jobs will say they're disability friendly until you actually need them to be friendly about your disabilities

jobs will say they're mental health friendly until you actually have to miss work for it

jobs will say they support you taking time off until you actually do it

capitalism is a sham and employers do not and will not ever care about you, and if you're chronically ill, sucks to suck

i have an average of 1.5 absences a month and i'm tardy an average of twice a month, and somehow that's still too much.

18 absences in a year if i go at the current rate. 18. out of the 208 days total that i work (4 on, 3 off, with a 3 hour commute each direction.) 18. days. of absences. and that's too many.

and god forbid i be more than 15 minutes late.

#it's because we're horrifically understaffed #animal rescue is understaffed and underpaid and burnt the fuck out #but where else am i gonna go #back to retail? my body can't take that anymore #a decade of 8 hours a day on my feet has quite literally crippled me #i called out today because i dared to have fun over my weekend and my hip pain flared so badly that i couldn't put weight on it #i should stay home and rest it tomorrow too #but i'm not #because my boss already texted me today to inform me that my absences are “alarmingly too frequent” and “becoming problematic”#i took fmla for a month and a half last year because i couldn't handle existing #i've been back for 3 months #my shelter laid off 15% of our staff within a month of me returning #critical teams were cut entirely #and my team #the adoptions team #has seven people total #that's not enough #that isn't NEARLY enough #not for an animal shelter of our size and animal volume #that's why me calling out is “problematic”#because HR won't greenlight us for more positions #because of a problem THE CEO caused by driving us into the ground financially #and if i leave i have to start all over somewhere else #i have to wait a year to be eligible for fmla at a new job #i lose my benefits #i don't even know if i could FIND a job #the market is awful and i will literally collapse if i have to work a standing job again #i made it six months at my last one #because i was so dizzy and in so much pain all the time #undiagnosed issues of course

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