I just wanted to vent, I figured this was the best place for that… I applied for a government position in mid-December after getting hired somewhere else, but was fired after three days, as I failed a drug test (I’m in a legal state, different story, still angry about that).
So I applied and did all of the background checks and testing. It was $19.50 an hour, plus a $1000 signing bonus. I’m 25 years old with very little job experience, so this would have been huge. So I got strung along for three months. I finally did the health exam. I failed the vision portion (because they forced me to wear a mask, which kept fogging up the display). I also failed as they had no documentation that my anxiety and depression are treated. So I start the appeal process, send in documentation that my vision is fine. I’m on antidepressants and have been for a year. I’m properly medicated.
I just got off the phone, the woman in charge of my appeal goes on to tell me that I need proof that I haven’t had any anxiety or depressive episodes in SIX MONTHS. I’ve wasted three months and several hundred dollars just for someone at a desk to call me and tell me I have to pay for another eye exam out of pocket as well as submit six months worth of proof that I’m not depressed? Depression can’t be cured! It doesn’t go away! Society is collapsing around us and I have $80 to my name.
I’m over this. I’m exhausted. Everything’s going to shit and I’m helpless. My parents shot me in the foot. I never asked for this.