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[quote=Anonymous]Op here.

Thanks all.

Although I wouldn’t be comfortable with this anyway, now that I’ve had some time, I realized something….

I had been sick with a flare up of an illness at the start of shutdown when this came up and I was already tired. They asked if I’d do it and I said I would but needed to attend the appointments to help manage my illness and asked if the other person who knew how to do the work would also be working with me.

We worked together a few days, and then she had an emergency and had to leave the project.

Then a bunch of things that were really stressful (including termites and a teacher doing something very inappropriate) happened and I just thought “I’ll finish the project and be done and deal with it all then.”

They added on more things that I did but then I just couldn’t. And I knew I was too exhausted but I saw no way out. My mentors, other staff, etc weren’t available.

I said to someone it’s like agreeing to take a boat across a dangerous shipping channel and get it to safety. My orders are, once it’s safe, I may not continue and I may not help other boats.

I got it to anchor in the harbor, but they said it would be safer in the cove. So I got it to the cove. I’d gone 5 miles. They asked me to go the other 500 yards to the beach and also to share all my navigational charts and help another boat across and I just was too tired to continue.

In terms of “solve the problem” Considering my manager told me I was not allowed to bring up the question with his manager because she was too busy, I went to HR and asked my union rep. Union rep told me I had to stop under my orders and HR told me it was a “gray area” and only my manager’s manager could tell me whether it was okay.

At that point; I drafted an email for her - two sentences that (to use the analogy) we agreed the ship wasn’t safe in the harbor and had to come to shore and, as needed I was allowed to share my charts and similar information with other ships, but they wouldn’t send it back.

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