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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve been in my job for 5 years.

Over the summer, I developed severe health problems (several infections and eventually sepsis) after being healthy my whole life and still being young (early 30s).

I repeatedly asked for accommodation to work from home as RTO approached and it was denied, despite all the documentation I had of the sepsis and from my doctors.

Due to my health issues and the lack of flexibility, I ended up taking FMLA at the recommendation of my doctor.

I am just feeling so incredibly angry though. I worked so hard in this job, and we worked from home for 3 years. If they would have just been flexible with me, I could have kept working from home but they wouldn’t.

I took FMLA and was unable to do any meaningful handover and my projects are a mess and my clients are texting me (since they are getting my auto-response on email and Skype).

It looks like I’ll end up getting paid through FMLA (through my existing leave reserves, donated leave, and STD), but I just keep coming back to this feeling of anger towards my work for being so inflexible and for not showing me any compassion or empathy. My coworkers are mad at me, I worry.

I’m even feeling slightly better but my doctors have said I should not go back to work (at least not in person) so I guess I can’t. I could have considered a shorter FMLA but I ended up putting in for the full 3 months.

Is anyone else in the same situation? It just seems like the company is acting in such a short sighted manner.[/quote]

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