I’m going to try to keep this short. (edit: LMAO THIS DIDNT HAPPEN SORRY)
I’ve been at my company for 4.5 years and with the pandemic and recent organizational changes it’s been harder and harder to keep the same productivity level I had when I started.
Over the summer, I started showing symptoms of major depressive disorder that had been more severe than ever before – unable to get out of bed, bad hygiene, isolation from friends and family, barely eating, some intermittent SI, etc etc. So bad to the point that my therapist recommended I enroll in a Partial Hospitalization / Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program
I told work on a Monday that the next Monday I would begin a medical leave to receive treatment that would take me away from work and we discussed going on a FMLA leave, but then I did absolutely no work that last week before I left (we work fully remote) because I simply couldn’t bring myself to do it. Which at the time I was like whatever it’s one week of many, when I come back i’ll be more motivated.
Now, as i’m nearing the end of my FMLA i’m starting to get worried that because of that last week that I essentially did not work, but was not on PTO or had otherwise informed my managers about my absence, but still received my paycheck that I will be fired immediately upon returning back to work.
The reason I think this is because I logged into my work computer and forwarded some emails this past week while I was on leave and HR emailed me asking if I was back, because they were not expecting me back. I told them I had forwarded emails to other inboxes and had not done any other work. I guess i’m just confused how HR knew that that happened unless my manager saw my name on emails and was like “wait why is she back I thought she was being fired” which prompted HR to reach out
I guess i’m just wondering if this is plausible or if i’m just creating a mountain out of a mole hill – i’ve been devastated for the last 48 hours thinking about how I will pay off my medical bills from the clinic without a regular paycheck and feeling so bad about myself because I was excited to get back to work with new motivation :/