Do people at work mess with your head or mistreat you?
No. We have a very professional and respectful culture at work. My superiors are also aware of my health conditions and it doesn’t pose an issue. Got a very nice promotion at the start of the year as well.
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Hmm. . .
Work Is A Day To Day Process Of Never Giving In, Never Giving Up, And Never Letting Go.
That Is Unless It Behooves You Accordingly To Continue Pursuing More Efficient Ways To Advance.
In The Hierarchy Within The Halo Structure Of Financial Gain And Educational Therapy.
Respect Is Given, When Respect Is Given.
I’ve had experiences that were bad and some were good. At my last job, I had to (and did) prove my coworkers were sabotaging me. They would call people, say they were me, and give them an appointment with the wrong dr. But I was able to prove it luckily.
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Yes, I try to give it back but I’m pretty tired and it’s an uphill battle. I get along for the most part. It’s like with the neighbor upstairs. They do something to get a mild reaction from me and pretty soon they’re doing it all the time and it often turns into a major deal. But everybody at work bugs each other and complain about each other and turn on each other too.
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My current workplace has discriminated against me in two significant ways: (1) They have denied me a name tag and apron, which everyone else that is there regularly, has, (2) when I took a mental health day, they punished me by not putting me at a register (I am a cashier) and having me restock and clean all shift, when I returned to work the next day; nobody else has received this treatment.
I debate whether or not to stay. The pay is better than the last place, but I deserve better than this treatment.
(There is also a black man who has yet to receive a meal card, although most people have them; I have one. He works for the same company, but at a different restaurant.)
I quit this workplace on Sunday, and returned my ID badge, yesterday. It was a restaurant at the airport.
On Twitter, I said that a workplace that discriminated against me, isn’t owed a two weeks notice.
My last job, I had it for 5 years. When I heard other coworkers on my team instant messaging each other back and forth, I was paranoid about it. I thought they were talking about me and giggling about me. If I couldn’t find one of my office items (like a stapler) I would panic and think someone hid it from me, on purpose, to mess with me. I was always paranoid. And I kept hallucinating my coworkers saying my name, behind my back.
They didn’t know about my mental illness.
I was a mess, though.
I eventually started working from home, which helped with the paranoia, but I got so overwhelmed by only a light load of work. I just couldn’t keep up. My boss was very understanding… she knew I had some disabilities, including a mental illness of some kind, so she was trying to be accommodating.
But even with all of the accommodations that my boss gave me, I still couldn’t keep up with my work.
That’s when I finally quit working. My last job was literally SO EASY for a normie. But for me… I just couldn’t do it anymore.
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Sorry you lost your job, will you look for a new one or taking a break?
I’ve had mostly good experiences doing office work, but there was one bank I worked for that was really toxic. We were all competing against each other for a pay-rise and so my colleagues would love to find fault and cast blame. Lots of underhanded sabotage going on and people taking credit for my work. Not a nice place to work.
Someone I know worked in a small convenience store and they took lots of days off due to mental illness and IBS. They overheard the boss laughing about giving them the shittiest jobs to try and get rid of them. So stuff like this does happen.
Nevertheless, it’s often a good idea to ask “am I being punished?” Because you never know if there might be some other reason for it.
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Good chance that your coworkers did actually take things from you, at least, some of the time.
They might have been talking about you behind your back.
It doesn’t sound like it was a good work environment.
Naw. Looking back, it was 100% paranoia. I was a nice person. Why would they pick on me?
I was just constantly on edge. It was all in my head.
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Of my last two jobs. The first was a toxic environment. Tons of gossip. Badmouthing. I knew they were doing it about me Too.
The next job though was a great work environment. My supervisor and coworkers had the upmost respect for their employees. They treated me great. I was so happy afrrr the first experience too but it was this winter I got so stressed out I had to quit
I regret it too. Not that I quit, I needed to quit. But that I had to.
Seasonal depression +stress is hard for me my symptoms in winter time
I was actually had my feet over water financially, while paying rent too. Even tho I wasn’t making very much but ssdi+16 hours per week of minimum wage work was enough to get by.
But I blew it now I’m back home with my parents not looking for a job yet
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I think I will take a break, for a little while. Then, I will get some things done, which will help to expand the job opportunities available to me.
The manager, or whomever was responsible for creating such a toxic work environment, at your bank job should have been fired.
If you take off too many days, some coworkers will resent you. Still, the boss at that convenience store was abusive and unprofessional. I only took one mental health day off, and even this, was resented.
They discriminated against me very early on. I was a good worker. I know it was nothing that I did.
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No one messed with me at work, I actually made friends there who helped me with my work, male and female.
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Bullies don’t care, if you are a nice person or not. Mostly, it isn’t about anything that you’ve done. It is about them.
I get that you’re trying to make me feel better or something, but I feel like you’re just not listening to me. I know that it was paranoia and hallucinations. I have schizoaffective.
I’ve been bullied in my past, in school. Looking back on both situations, I can see a clear difference. One was actual bullying, one was pure mental illness / paranoia and such.
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Paranoia can cause this not only bullying. Actually bullying is more rare than paranoia imo
Bullying is wildly common. At least, in America.
I haven’t experienced that in my adult life in Canada and I had tons of jobs. It was actually my paranoia when it happened as I was off meds or on non working meds. People are generally good, I have a feeling that you think everyone is bad.
People, generally, want to be good, and be perceived as good people. However, most people also want to feel accepted by the group; they will bully others or look the other way, if they feel it would cost them socially to do otherwise.
As someone that has been bullied, as a preteen, and at work, and, also, as someone that has read history, and the news, I can tell you that many people will act badly, if they see a benefit in doing so. This often results in cowardly and despicable behavior from people that want to see themselves as “good.”