I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD & anxiety, and I’m approaching my autism diagnosis appointment (although, I know that I 100% have it, it runs in the fam and I’ve showed clear symptoms of it since birth), as well as a neurology appointment in a month to diagnose my unspecified sleep disorder. I’m in the trenches when it comes to attention to detail. No matter how careful I am, there will be something that slips through the cracks every once and a while.
I have disclosed all of these things to my HR manager, right off the bat (despite not being able to fill out a form )
I have been written up for falling asleep at the desk. One moment I was completely awake, and the next, my head was sitting on the desk and one of my coworkers was asking if I was okay. I had been asleep for 10 minutes, out of nowhere. This has happened all throughout my life, coupled with some nasty insomnia that also comes in waves. My manager came into the office, and told me I was getting written up for it, wouldn’t let me explain myself, and told me that I wouldn’t have been able to handle that conversation the year prior because of how bad my mental health was at that point. She mentioned this multiple times.
She was wrong too! I would have been able to handle it!
I have also been threatened to be written up over making a mistake at work. I was given the task to print out labels for the warehouse workers to put on gaylords, and I mistakenly printed out the same set of labels twice. The warehouse workers used those labels without checking to see if they had been used before, and they used… a lot of them. It took hours to fix.
I get called into my HR managers office, and I get berated for 10 minutes straight without the opportunity to explain what may have happened. She said that I wasn’t being careful, among many other not-so-nice things veiled behind pleasantry. Passive aggressive. I fucking cried for an hour after.
I feel that my naivety has been taken advantage of. I’m only 20, and this is my first job the “corporate” world. I am a receptionist, and I work with a few other women. I get paid the same as they do, but I have taken on/been assigned so many additional tasks without extra pay. I’ve been here for a year, and still haven’t gotten a raise.
These are just a few examples of the things the company has put me through, and good god it’s exhausting and makes me scared to go to work.
Is this something I could contact the ADA about? My work does not have a union, so I wouldn’t be able to go through them 🙁
If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I really need help