for some contextual info— i (29f) have really debilitating mental health issues. i’ve been out of work for almost a year, while my fiancé has worked to take care of us and our cat. i, of course, took care of things at home. but he needed help, it was sink or swim because our rent and bills were getting too much to handle. he works overnights (6pm-?? am) at a warehouse, and it turned out that there was an open position in the office. what a coincidence! he talked to his boss, his boss asked to meet me, i was hired on the spot. then we got covid and that delayed me starting for a little over a month.
i finally started, and thursday made 8 days that i’ve been working there. the problem is… i’m not handling it well. i’m not grasping the duties, even though i’m putting my all into it. i’m trying so damn hard but it all goes so fast and is really overwhelming. they only want to let me train for one more week, even though my boss told me in our meeting that i’d get to train for as long as i needed to and didn’t have to worry about needing more time. the girls training me told me i was doing just fine but then i found out that they were asking my fiancé if i’m good at multitasking because i “can only focus on one thing at a time” behind my back. i had an anxiety attack and one of the women training me said “i have anxiety too but you just need to suck it up” which only made me spiral more.
i’m just at a loss. the job pays really well, as it should for the shift we have to work. and if i lose it… we’ll be in a really bad spot. but i don’t know if i can handle this. i don’t know if it’s something that i’ll be able grasp at all, much less in such a short amount of time. do y’all think it’d fall under reasonable accommodations to ask for more time training? i don’t know what else to do.
tldr; in the meeting, my boss said i’d “receive as much training as i needed.” and that i didn’t have to worry about asking for more time if i needed it. now i’m being told that i only have one more week of training after only being there for EIGHT DAYS. would asking for more time be a reasonable accommodation under the ada? (i have mental health issues)