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Fired for being disabled.

I turned in paperwork for workplace accommodations related to my condition, and some of the side effects of my medication. Throughout my time working there, I was constantly harassed every time I used the restroom, which I had to repeatedly explain was a side effect of my medication and related to a lifelong disability. Nearly every day, multiple times per day. Eventually the worst offender of this was made my supervisor. One of the first things she did was try to get a strike on my attendence, even though I was in the designated grace period, and only because the timeclock wasn’t working. Her reasoning was that I should’ve been working off the clock because she wanted her numbers to look good. After I complained to management about how I was being treated, they had HR call to telI me I would be terminated if I didn’t meet certain metrics…


I turned in paperwork for workplace accommodations related to my condition, and some of the side effects of my medication.

Throughout my time working there, I was constantly harassed every time I used the restroom, which I had to repeatedly explain was a side effect of my medication and related to a lifelong disability. Nearly every day, multiple times per day.

Eventually the worst offender of this was made my supervisor. One of the first things she did was try to get a strike on my attendence, even though I was in the designated grace period, and only because the timeclock wasn’t working. Her reasoning was that I should’ve been working off the clock because she wanted her numbers to look good.

After I complained to management about how I was being treated, they had HR call to telI me I would be terminated if I didn’t meet certain metrics within a week instead of the 3 months they afforded other employees.

I still met those metrics, confirmed it in a meeting with my manager (who used the entire meeting to scold me on my work ethic based solely on the complications from my disability,) before firing me anyway for having a “bad attitude and poor performance.”

This is ironic given how much my previous manager continually brought up my great attitude and work ethic at every meeting. Even going so far as posting about it in the company-wide chat (yes, I got a screencap before they locked me out and a copy of the meeting documents confirming I met the metrics goal.)

I don’t know what to do, I feel they have brazenly discriminated against me, but I don’t expect any justice when I file a complaint with the state. I didn’t choose to be disabled, I don’t want to be disabled, I just want to be treated with dignity.

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