Re: RA at work

[Guest guest]

,

I feel for you. I was in a very similar situation when I was diagnosed in March

2009. I chose to ignore the advise of my fiancee', family members and a few

friends to not give too much information to my Manager. Without going into a

lot of detail, one year later I was unemployed. In retrospect, I realize now

that honesty is not always the best policy. I wish I could turn back the clock,

but that isn't possible. I wish you luck, however, you decide to proceed.

Best Wishes,

Heidi in Denver

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From: oogiejonz <bajones@...>

Sent: Wed, March 2, 2011 8:32:03 AM

Subject: [ ] RA at work

This is a little convoluted.... I work as a computer administrator and I'm the

only person in my company who does my particular job. Every spring we go through

a patching cycle where I'm required to work all night patching servers, then

required to come in to work the next day. After two months of this 2 yrs ago, I

developed RA. I'm pretty sure that my exhaustion was what triggered the RA, and

now whenever I get extremely overtired I have bad flares.

So it is almost time for our next cycle. I'm debating asking my boss if it would

be ok for me to do the patching at night but not go in to work the next day.

What I'm really nervous about is that they are in the process of trying to hire

someone to work with me. But my company is constantly struggling and every year

they have layoffs. If they have someone else working with me who learns how to

do my job then I will be easily expendable in the next layoff, and I'm afraid

that I will make myself a target if I create any waves with the work schedule.

Hopefully if they do hire someone I won't be working every night as I have in

the past, which may alleviate the flare up.

I'm wondering whether any of you have told your management that you have RA or

asked for any kind of accomodations, and what kinds of repercussions have

happened as a result.

J