I wanna preface by saying I’m a newly disabled vet. I found a company I really enjoyed working for because it was a fun environment & the hours were pretty decent, but today changed that in an instant. So one of my disabilities is that I have Sickle Cell Disease and I had an attack earlier today, so I’m typing this while at the hospital under copious amounts of morphine. I work at an escape game place, so if somebody calls out, the managers have to either call someone in who knows how to run that game, or they just can’t run the game for a few hours that day. I’m the morning shift, which is pretty slow as is, but my attendance has always been stellar so I never worried about how they handle call ins. So today I’m at the gym, went a little too hard & it triggered a sickle cell attack which means I’m in excruciating pain and parts of my body are dying that I’ll never get back, to the extent where because of this new attack, I have to get a hip replacement later this year because of the avascular necrosis happening on my femoral heads. So I text my managers letting them know the situation & what do I get? “Oh no I’m so sorry that happened! You need to find someone to cover your shifts or else we’ll have to shut the game down for the morning, also gonna need some type of medical documentation” and the Kill Bill siren immediately started playing in my head. M*********** I am quite literally on a hospital bed within inches of dying going through a medical event that shortens my life span & right now I’m supposed to care about finding coverage for my shifts and getting you a doctor’s note? F*** your escape games, f*** you & f*** working for you because you have to be touched in the head for your initial thoughts to be about your job, not even a single “are you okay?” Or a “get well soon”. Thankfully being a 100% disabled vet, I can afford to ghost this employer and chill out til I find a better job but Jesus Christ I can’t believe how much empathy people have lost nowadays. Like I made it extremely clear in my onboarding that my disabilities can hospitalize me for weeks in an instant & this is how you treat me? Felt so good deleting the Homebase & ADP app