I know that pain. Your illness is a 'fake'. You are NOT depressed, or alcoholic or suffering from PTSD---YOU ARE WEAK! You can control alcoholism, you can THINK yourself to health! PTSD? What are you? Some kind of coward/loser? Oh, I know it. Wolf has a very similar reaction to junkies----she can't stand them, they seem weak-willed to her and perfectly capable of just saying NO. (thank you, Nancy Reagan) brain chemistry gets FUCKED UP over prolonged periods of stress, drug and alcohol use and so on. the brain is plastic and NOT STATIC. Wires get HARD wired into it; it mutates itself; it re-sets itself to the new norm. Pisses me off, really.

She's out to break you----I've had two bosses very much like her. One got fired and the other---after I left (calling them all thugs to their fucking faces) had her institution close down. I'd get a lawyer. And make notes. Detailed; no matter how insignificant the matter may seem. patters is what we looks for precious. Patterns.

also====if a doc writes you off work----can't you be off work?

they won't keep any notes. They'll round file everything. After they've shredded it.

Does your phone have a voice note recording feature? You should turn it on before any meeting you have with HR or your boss, and slip the phone into your pocket out of sight.

Ohio has a one party consent law, which means that you can record any damn thing you want as long as you are a party to the conversation. You're consenting, and that's all you need. Your phone's memory will eventually fill up, so you need to figure out how to back up those voice notes off your phone and then delete them from the phone to free up space.

Can'r you ask for a copy when you make a complaint? I thought that was the point?

that's interesting. And kind of scary. but seems like it might be a good approach here....

OHIO is a scary state. It's close to being a Nazi state, really.

the local cops (oh, all my good buddies) are all megalomaniacs with inferiority complexes.

get a bigger memory microsd card. 32 gb for $30 will hold a VAST amount of recording.

You're a smart girl Infi you will know what to do. :thumb:

No, I won't.

I was looking online at jobs at nonprofits, at jobs at the zoos or the parks. I can travel great distances for 10 bucks an hour no bennies, or I could be a nurse for a nonprofit (but I'm not a nurse) or I could use a time machine and take that part timey zoo job and start a career as a kid that, by now, I'd probably have a decent place in.

There is nothing out there, nothing I can survive on alone.

I'm sorry Infi. I don't really know exactly what you do. The only thing I qualify for is animal husbandry. When people stop eating meat I am fucked :thepain:

Oh, I'm just in such a funk. All the things I love to do, pay nothing.

"I can see why you may be confused about my title since Assistant starts with ASS and analyst starts with ANAL, but after that the similarity ends. But I do like the way your mind works. *wink*"

Just an idea.

I bet your hubby must be making secret donations to PETA in that case.

snorted out loud

One of these days. I will get to say that one of these days.

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