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Thoughts on employer pressuring me to work mandatory overtime when I have an FMLA intermittent leave accommodations.

I took a work from home data entry job so I could have an easy job due to declining health. A year in I was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, endometriosis and inflammatory bowel disease. The worst of these is the IIH and that is the reason I got the accommodation. Sometimes I cannot see. Sometimes I am throwing up all day. Sometimes I force myself to work through this regardless of my accommodation because I feel like a burden. It is hard enough to do my 40 hours but this place requires almost constant overtime. At least and extra hour a day and often 4-8 hours on Saturday. I’ve been turning the weekend work down since having my accommodation and management has now given me a warning that this is not working for them. I’m not sure if it’s even legal for them to come at me like this…


I took a work from home data entry job so I could have an easy job due to declining health. A year in I was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, endometriosis and inflammatory bowel disease.

The worst of these is the IIH and that is the reason I got the accommodation. Sometimes I cannot see. Sometimes I am throwing up all day. Sometimes I force myself to work through this regardless of my accommodation because I feel like a burden.

It is hard enough to do my 40 hours but this place requires almost constant overtime. At least and extra hour a day and often 4-8 hours on Saturday. I’ve been turning the weekend work down since having my accommodation and management has now given me a warning that this is not working for them.

I’m not sure if it’s even legal for them to come at me like this but it’s at least immoral.

What y’all think? Honestly if you just want to comment bashing the employer it would probably make me feel better.

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