I work in a warehouse (lots of digits multi multi digit dollar company) where I have been told because it’s a warehouse we don’t do disability accommodations.
It’s a lot of manual labor with the usual heavy equipment warehouses the size of a couple football fields have.
I got cancer & worked through it. No choice. Work or be homeless. I have Metastatic cancer. So chemo radiation surgery meds more chemo. I’m not dead. Almost a couple times from the treatments. And the treatments have left me a wreck. Short term disability tried to talk me into going fully disabled
But who can live on that?
So I try to manage. Fortunately my expertise is behind a computer & doing stats & inventory. But lately management wants me on the floor lifting boxes & running the heavy hard hat required equipment
And no medical accommodations.
It isn’t that I will eventually disable myself further. I don’t have the strength with all the dissection the surgeon did. Nerve damage & muscle atrophy.
So I really don’t want to contribute to the collection of warehouse equipment disasters films
Or potentially injure someone.
If I ask for any accommodations, I will be put on medical leave. Open secret. Seen it happen. Of course the company brags about non discrimination practices.
And they follow the EEOC guidelines with lawyers up your ass explaining how it causes company hardship
I know they are trying to force me out as they have forced out others who cannot hide their disabilities.
Fortunately my short term reprieve is they are having difficulty hiring new experienced recruits to replace my main functions. And the longer I step away from the computer, the faster things spiral into chaos.
But I know I am replaceable. And half of management won’t know the numbers are off until later & then they will discover some bucket to hide it from the uppers & stockholders
I don’t know why I care? I guess I’m trying to hang on to some semblance of feeling of control
Here Endeth my Cancer Work Rant