So I’ve been working for my current job since 2016 and I’ve hated it since. I am in a unique situation because I suffer from anxiety and have a chronic illness. In early 2018, my illness was flaring up a bunch and I was having to call out a lot to the point I ran out of PTO. I figured it was time to schedule a meeting with my supervisor and director at the time to produce a doctors note and explain my situation to show I was being transparent. I had asked to work from home and I was granted a half day WFH, meaning I’d have to drive into the office at the half day mark around 12:30… which obviously wasted time and was completely unnecessary. Anyway, this went on for months, but I was then put on a performance plan because I wasn’t “getting enough work done” but I also had to waste 30 minutes of my day driving to the office and getting settled in in the middle of the day.
My job is extremely into micromanaging to the point of emailing me every hour on the hour to “check in.” I went to quit in December of 2018, but then they offered for me to work from home full time, and I accepted. At the time, remote jobs were almost impossible to come by. This seemed to remedy the micromanagement and self proclaimed harassment of my condition at the time.
Fast forward to the last year and they’ve been just as bad as 2018, if not worse. The whole company is remote now due to Covid and they seem to want to question my productivity constantly even though we’ve been short staffed since I started in 2016. I’ve explained that I’m burnt out and I have an illness that I’ve provided doctors notes for and it seems to fall on deaf ears. I’ve been told to clock out if I can’t “work to the best of my ability” I recently asked for a 32 hour work week and they are asking for a doctor’s note again… I also injured myself in April of this year and pretty much thought I was lying about the severity of it until I had to get surgery and take medical leave. This job has put me into a severe depression and I want to quit to focus on finding a new remote role, but I’m so afraid to be out of a job. Any advice is appreciated.