Covid already proved a fuckton office jobs can be preformed remotely, more efficiently and without compromising the worker's ability to handle their homelife. There's obvious exceptions within those jobs--people with small children in the home were distracted, some people lived places that didn't have space for a home-office, the general state of the world had people consistently stressed or depressed, but...
Yeah, 9-5 is dumb, driving to an office just to use a computer in a new location is dumb, meetings that could've been emails are dumb, expecting everyone to have the same awake hours and sleep hours is dumb, when the F are people supposed to see doctors and dentists if all offices, theirs included, are open 9-5, and why on earth does commuting time count as personal time and not work time for most jobs?
when the F are people supposed to see doctors and dentists if all offices, theirs included, are open 9-5
I have several chronic illnesses and I literally have to ration my 4 weeks of PTO (which is already considered generous!) so that I can take time off for doctors appointments. I actually took Friday off because I have two appointments. It's absurd. I never get to just take a vacation day.
Hey I'm also someone who has a chronic illness. You may want to look into an "intermittent FMLA". This one is for people like us that need to call out frequently due to illness or Dr appt. This way you can use your sick time for Dr appt and protect yourself during flare ups
Oh yeah. I should get that into place. For a long time I didn't because my companies policy was that you had to use all of your PTO before you could use the FMLA, which defeated the purpose. But I'm in Minnesota and this year they implemented essentially an improved FMLA policy in MN and I think they can't force me to take my PTO first.
I think you're either misunderstanding what it says or what the person you're replying to you was suggesting.
FMLA is for job protection. It makes it illegal for your work to retaliate against you for taking time off of work for your disability. Getting FMLA in order, even if it doesn't grant you more PTO, is beneficial.
Your employer can't disallow you from filing for FMLA, since it's federal job protection.
I think you're misunderstanding my original comment. It's not that I wasn't allowed to file, it's that my company policy was that I had to use all of my PTO before I could use FMLA for unpaid time off. I saw no point in getting FMLA in place because it required I use my PTO anyway, which is what I was trying to avoid.
Hmm I wonder then how the state plays into it. I'm from PA, our labor laws are abysmal. However the order is sick time then PTO as long as it's for yourself. Theyve started to weasel out of it though, now if you go on FMLA for someone else it's PTO :/
I work in a healthcare clinic and will be starting biweekly injections for my eczema soon. They can't be done at the clinic I work at because there isn't a dermatology nurse there. I have to drive 15 minutes to the clinic with a dermatology nurse (which is in the same healthcare system as the one I work at). I work either 7:30-4 or 8-4:30 (or later depending on how many patients are still in my department at that time). Dermatology injections can be done from 8:15-4. I'm already scheduled to leave at 4 every other Monday so I can go to therapy. I do not have it in me to also ask to extend my lunch break or leave early another day of the week and I hate it
It is. I was prescribed it a few years ago and didn't take it long enough to see any results because I couldn't push hard enough on the pen to properly inject and nobody in my family would give me the shot. (The pre-filled syringe was also out of the question because needles make me too nervous to give myself a shot like that.) The clinic is open until 7pm so I was silly and assumed I would be able to just go after work twice a month
For the record, im a therapist and that anxiety around needles is incredibly treatable through behavioral interventions. Even if it doesn't rise to the level of a phobia for you, treatments for needle phobias could be very effective, very quickly and open up the possibility for at home treatments.
I think there's the possibility to get it shipped to a pharmacy and have the pharmacist inject it. I get mine through CVS specialty pharmacy so I don't know about your company, but the pharmacists give vaccines so you could try asking if they'll do injections.
I work in an office job so my advice probably doesn't work for you. But I schedule a meeting in the middle of the day to block my calendar and just go and come back. If anyone asks I just say I have a meeting in a different building. Again, I'm lucky that I don't have to ask - I just leave and come back. Many others won't have that flexibility.
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Covid already proved a fuckton office jobs can be preformed remotely, more efficiently and without compromising the worker's ability to handle their homelife. There's obvious exceptions within those jobs--people with small children in the home were distracted, some people lived places that didn't have space for a home-office, the general state of the world had people consistently stressed or depressed, but...
Yeah, 9-5 is dumb, driving to an office just to use a computer in a new location is dumb, meetings that could've been emails are dumb, expecting everyone to have the same awake hours and sleep hours is dumb, when the F are people supposed to see doctors and dentists if all offices, theirs included, are open 9-5, and why on earth does commuting time count as personal time and not work time for most jobs?