How much to you info share with your employer?

[Guest guest]

I have kept my direct supervisor aware of all the tests and problems going on

since I accepted the director position at my school back in March. I have not

shared much with the owner of the school. I don't know what my supervisor has

shared.

A colleague (who has epilepsy)pulled me aside yesterday and told me I should not

disclose anything to our employers because they would start looking for other

reasons to fire us. She has never disclosed her medical problems, even going to

the extent of making up a death in the family when she had a grande mal seizure

and needed a day to recooperate. I was getting ready to fill out FMLA paperwork

because I have to have surgery. This conversation has me paranoid.

I am not on the company insurance plan. I make up my sick days--I never want to

be accused of shirking! But she has me thinking...am I being stupid in

reporting days I am working from home, needed to go to a doctor's appointment or

to the ER? The truth is, I'm at the school because I love the students. The

pay and benefits are a joke. I'd make more money teaching at a university (!!)

or in my own private practice. If I were fired, I'd grieve only because I've

never been fired and I would miss my students and fellow teachers. NOT the

place.

What should I be doing to CMA?