I never thought about being let go at my last job as discrimination, but in a way perhaps it was after reading this article and comments. Back at the end of March I ended up in the hospital with Acid Ketosis, almost died. Then I incurred a staph infection and once that cleared up, about two weeks later I got MRSA. Needless to say I was in the Hospital in Idaho and had recently moved to Utah, therefore I had to get Doctor appointments as I could take them to get setup with new physicians. My appointments in the beginning were during work hours, which I tried to make up most of the hours, I had informed my employer of this and the days off were approved. Then I had an accident and fractured my leg, you would have thought I had planned it when I told the employer I had to take two days off (I even worked for 3 hours on one of those days). Yes, it was just a temporary job and I understand I had missed quite a few days during the short period I had been employed. But the temp agency knew about the appointments and my health situation before they sent me out on the job. There reason for letting me go before the job was complete was because I missed to many days, but my performance was excellent. So I ask myself, is this affecting me getting a job through them now, would that be considered discrimination? I am a good worker and I admit that I have missed more work than I care to in the last four years trying to get my diabetes under control and working with docs and employers. The temp service I work for now says if I get a job, I need to make appointments after work or on the weekend, well that is not always possible so where does that leave me in the future. I feel it leaves me with making a choice between the doc appts and the job, guess which one goes, yep docs, need a job. That leaves me going to clinics that may have doctors but not an internal medical doctor that specializes in Diabetes. Anyway, just felt the need to share. TC
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I never thought about being let go at my last job as discrimination, but in a way perhaps it was after reading this article and comments. Back at the end of March I ended up in the hospital with Acid Ketosis, almost died. Then I incurred a staph infection and once that cleared up, about two weeks later I got MRSA. Needless to say I was in the Hospital in Idaho and had recently moved to Utah, therefore I had to get Doctor appointments as I could take them to get setup with new physicians. My appointments in the beginning were during work hours, which I tried to make up most of the hours, I had informed my employer of this and the days off were approved. Then I had an accident and fractured my leg, you would have thought I had planned it when I told the employer I had to take two days off (I even worked for 3 hours on one of those days). Yes, it was just a temporary job and I understand I had missed quite a few days during the short period I had been employed. But the temp agency knew about the appointments and my health situation before they sent me out on the job. There reason for letting me go before the job was complete was because I missed to many days, but my performance was excellent. So I ask myself, is this affecting me getting a job through them now, would that be considered discrimination? I am a good worker and I admit that I have missed more work than I care to in the last four years trying to get my diabetes under control and working with docs and employers. The temp service I work for now says if I get a job, I need to make appointments after work or on the weekend, well that is not always possible so where does that leave me in the future. I feel it leaves me with making a choice between the doc appts and the job, guess which one goes, yep docs, need a job. That leaves me going to clinics that may have doctors but not an internal medical doctor that specializes in Diabetes. Anyway, just felt the need to share. TC
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