Second job I’ve lost because of SLE and beyond distraught.
Mostly venting because this is so emotionally damaging and I need to let it out.
The first time this happened to me it was very clearly discrimination. I got sick shortly after I started my first job post grad school. I was hospitalized for a week because of kidney issues and once I returned to work, took medical leave. After my medical leave I was given a complete BS PIP, told by HR I wasn’t “allowed” to still be sick, basically tortured for 90 days on the preface of performance issues and then fired. I hired a lawyer and settled - but the experience was so unbelievably painful and inhumane.
This time around, I started a job I took a big pay cut for because it was something I thought I’d find really fulfilling (ironically, a healthcare institution). I let my manager know week 1 that I had SLE and needed some very basic medical accommodations. This was ignored forever, until I brought it up more formally. He tells me not to request them with HR, and then a week later uses my ask for some simple office supplies against me - saying others had comments that I was demanding and there was feedback on my communication style. Totally bizarre because I had only mentioned this to maybe two people in the context of asking how I could request these items and noting it was medical.
Tone totally flips from here on out. I get called in and told they don’t want to continue with me past my probation period, literally for zero reason but “interpersonal dynamics” via feedback they can’t share. I’m repeatedly told my work product is brilliant, I added a lot of value, etc - but that the soft skills (which they provide no other examples of) are too significant to “coach me on”.
Super painful. Manger who knew that I depended on this probation period to get healthcare, I dropped out of several interviews because he guaranteed I shouldn’t be concerned of anything, consistently gave me good feedback… just does a 180 and decides I’m too demanding and lets me go. I’ve been in tears since.
Like I cannot do this anymore. I don’t know how much longer I can fight a system that’s been set up to let me fail.