ahalo
03-28-05, 02:05 AM
I have a meeting with my boss tomorrow where I will for the first time discuss some of the challenges I've been having with my job and will officially ask for "accommodations". As the time has drawn nearer, I've been less and less determined to be gung-ho about all of this. Not because I don't think I NEED some of the accommodations, but I'm reverting back to that "I'll get fired if I don't make it easy for them..."
What I'm thinking I'll do is just go over some of what has been difficult, and let her know a few things that would be helpful to me (that might not be official "accommodations"), and then see how that goes before putting anything more official in place. Also because I haven't been able to get into the DR to get a note about the disability significantly impacting my life... I don't feel I can go in and ask for much. Which is probably a good thing.
I think in the beginning of situations like this I feel like there is a huge amount of importance when, in actuality, there isn't. The situation that triggered this was one that has occurred only about 5 times since last August, so it's not something I deal with often at all. I just completely overreacted to it. So now I feel really foolish.
At the same time, I do think I will ask for more feedback because I think that will decrease my constant anxieties since this all started about getting fired. That is one "official" accommodation I'm going to ask for, as well as a detailed "job description" for the one site at work where I've never been (the one I was about to get sent to and had a full blown anxiety attack over since I'd never been there and had no idea what to expect and didn't know about it until the last minute). Does that sound fair?
Thanks!
(And I can't sleep so I'll be going on 4 hours of sleep tomorrow... blech. I do have about 3 hours in the morning when I can come home and rest but I rarely do.)
What I'm thinking I'll do is just go over some of what has been difficult, and let her know a few things that would be helpful to me (that might not be official "accommodations"), and then see how that goes before putting anything more official in place. Also because I haven't been able to get into the DR to get a note about the disability significantly impacting my life... I don't feel I can go in and ask for much. Which is probably a good thing.
I think in the beginning of situations like this I feel like there is a huge amount of importance when, in actuality, there isn't. The situation that triggered this was one that has occurred only about 5 times since last August, so it's not something I deal with often at all. I just completely overreacted to it. So now I feel really foolish.
At the same time, I do think I will ask for more feedback because I think that will decrease my constant anxieties since this all started about getting fired. That is one "official" accommodation I'm going to ask for, as well as a detailed "job description" for the one site at work where I've never been (the one I was about to get sent to and had a full blown anxiety attack over since I'd never been there and had no idea what to expect and didn't know about it until the last minute). Does that sound fair?
Thanks!
(And I can't sleep so I'll be going on 4 hours of sleep tomorrow... blech. I do have about 3 hours in the morning when I can come home and rest but I rarely do.)