Today, Social Security is docking my benefits because I have a job. That's normal… Except I haven't had a job since November 2023. After my old boss left, she was replaced by an ableist prick who fired me as soon as he realized that I'm disabled. No matter what I do, they refuse to believe me. Help? FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, the company I work for is now under new ownership. Somehow, this set off a series of events that resulted in the best boss I've ever had being effectively fired. I'm badly disabled, and she was the only thing stopping me from experiencing rampant ableism at work. I may be jobless again very soon. FML
Today, my disability job agent, who's supposed to help me find work that fits my limitations, told me to immediately withdraw from a job offer that suited me, because it didn't meet her "benchmark". She then told me that she would decide what's "appropriate" for me, and if I don't comply, my support will be revoked. FML
Today, I tried to find a job. Again. It's been seven years since I earned more than 70€ in a month, seven years since I moved back in with my parents, and seven years since I was registered as having a medical disability. Nobody wants me, not even as a shelf stacker. FML
Today, I was dismissed from my job at an unemployment agency. In order to receive financial support from the government I need to be cooperating with a job service provider. They paired me up with the same place I was just fired from. FML
Today, after I got fired from my job last year because I couldn't handle the pressure of being under a PIP by a company who wants to underhandedly cut off employees, I got a new job. My new boss keeps hounding me about my performance and I feel like she doesn't like me. I live alone, have no savings and I can't afford being fired again. FML
Today, after enduring chemo, radiation treatments and several surgeries in order to beat cancer, being immunocompromised and catching Covid, I haven’t been able to work for years. Despite all that, I still get told I’m lazy and need to "just go get a job" when I try to get social security. FML
Today, I lost my job. This was a surprise, as my performance hasn’t ever been an issue. My boss couldn’t look me in the eye while it happened, and the HR representative cut me off when I tried to ask why, informing me that they would only answer benefit-related questions. FML
Today, I find it to be absolute horseshit that I’ve been denied disability benefits even though I’ve been in and out (mostly in) treatment for cancer over the past four years. Meanwhile my 600 lbs+ neighbor has been draining the system for decades. I can’t even find a pro bono attorney to help. FML
Today, I was fired on my second day of work after a year and a half of unemployment. Apparently, my "tendency to solve problems instead of just accepting them made the other workers uneasy". FML
Today, after 3 months of job hunting, I finally got a job. But now my birth certificate and social security card are somehow lost, and I can't start until I let them see a copy. FML
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Sertorius 10
Isn't that a protected class in the United States? You probably should sue for wrongful termination.
Lffayen 4
while it is protected, most states have an at-will employment clause that says so long as they don't state a reason they do not necessarily have to give you a reason for why you were fired. So long as that employer doesn't put "disabled " in writing or recorded voice, then there is no case to be made against them.
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Sertorius 10
Isn't that a protected class in the United States? You probably should sue for wrongful termination.
Lffayen 4
while it is protected, most states have an at-will employment clause that says so long as they don't state a reason they do not necessarily have to give you a reason for why you were fired. So long as that employer doesn't put "disabled " in writing or recorded voice, then there is no case to be made against them.
idragosani 17
Why aren't you suing this company? That's extremely illegal!
bidet 10
You may be the victim of identity theft, where someone stole, or just randomly choose, your SSN to put on a job application. If SSA is getting payroll deposits from this impostor's paycheck, they think it's you.
d j mom 9
it called a lawyer
Brightside86 31
Normally don't agree with the sue happy comments. Firing a protected class sounds like the sort of easy money lawyers dream about.
tiptoppc 21
I’m currently doing that. It’s no picnic and took a month to get a court date. A car accident on the job messed up my spine and head. The car accident was a semi trucks fault that was passing me on my way to a client of my job, and I still haven’t seen a cent, even though they literally put down my injury as the reason for firing me, then did a crap ton of illegal stuff as well all documented. Even with laws in place, sometimes you are forced to lawyer up, as many companies don’t follow laws, don’t care, and even suing doesn’t give money right away. People’s idea of how things should be, and how they really are, ate two different worlds. It sucks. And social security pays crap, leaving anyone in this position without help or as a lifeline is screwed. The government adopted the idea from a Christmas story “then let them die, and reduce the surplus population…!”
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Ah, the joys of living in America. I'm really looking forward to my SS years...