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<blockquote data-quote="KTMom91" data-source="post: 679518" data-attributes="member: 4040"><p>After I requested a demotion (from manager to assistant manager) in order to move back home after my daughter was born, the district manager told my new manager to make me quit. She hassled me unmercifully, dumped three times as much work on me as on anyone else, wrote me up for breathing, stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>I had had enough, I was stressed and unhappy, and went to the doctor, stating I had job related stress and could not work in that store for that woman without making myself ill. The company ignored me. I filed a disability claim. I won. I received disability for more than six months, actually making more on disability than I did working, because the disability amount was based on my Bay Area manager's salary and not my Central CA assistant manager's salary.</p><p></p><p>I cooperated fully with disability, took all the tests, visited all the doctors/psychiatrists they wanted me to, and gradually was able to relax and feel human again. The terminology you use is very important. I never said I was unable to work, I emphasized that I was unable to work in that store for that woman. </p><p></p><p>Side note: I did get to see Karma in action. The company opened a huge, beautiful new store here in town, and because I was curious, I went to see it. The first person I saw, in an ugly little smock folding T-shirts, was that awful woman. She had been demoted to floor clerk. I, on the other hand, had returned to a company I had worked for previously, and was a district manager in charge of eleven stores. Yeah. It felt really good.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, CB, you need to document, document, document. Photocopies of your workload, written instructions from your boss, stuff like that. Talk to HR. Go to the doctor for additional documentation. If you do decide to go the disability route, having paperwork that shows you've tried self-advocating really helps.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KTMom91, post: 679518, member: 4040"] After I requested a demotion (from manager to assistant manager) in order to move back home after my daughter was born, the district manager told my new manager to make me quit. She hassled me unmercifully, dumped three times as much work on me as on anyone else, wrote me up for breathing, stuff like that. I had had enough, I was stressed and unhappy, and went to the doctor, stating I had job related stress and could not work in that store for that woman without making myself ill. The company ignored me. I filed a disability claim. I won. I received disability for more than six months, actually making more on disability than I did working, because the disability amount was based on my Bay Area manager's salary and not my Central CA assistant manager's salary. I cooperated fully with disability, took all the tests, visited all the doctors/psychiatrists they wanted me to, and gradually was able to relax and feel human again. The terminology you use is very important. I never said I was unable to work, I emphasized that I was unable to work in that store for that woman. Side note: I did get to see Karma in action. The company opened a huge, beautiful new store here in town, and because I was curious, I went to see it. The first person I saw, in an ugly little smock folding T-shirts, was that awful woman. She had been demoted to floor clerk. I, on the other hand, had returned to a company I had worked for previously, and was a district manager in charge of eleven stores. Yeah. It felt really good. Anyway, CB, you need to document, document, document. Photocopies of your workload, written instructions from your boss, stuff like that. Talk to HR. Go to the doctor for additional documentation. If you do decide to go the disability route, having paperwork that shows you've tried self-advocating really helps. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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