Anyone had this happen?

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I am a college student and in April received a student worker

position at the conference center at my school. Upon interviewing I

was honest and explained the STRONG possibility of me having surgery

during the summer in which I would be out of work for 4-6 weeks.

They thanked me for being up front and honest and hired me for 15-20

hours per week. Well, I was gone after surgery for 5 weeks due to

dizziness and other side effects. When I returned to work, my boss

and her assistant began haggling me and telling me that I was not

100% and not to come back until I could give 110%. Well, most of you

know that we have setbacks, complications, and possible sickness

from time to time and especially after surgery we need to let our

bodies adjust. Recently I have been getting migraines, mostly in the

last three weeks. I went to work with these migraines and worked 25

hours per week. They wanted more and more and more. I kept going to

work with horrible migraines because the animosity was apparent

since my surgery. Has this happened to anyone else? Due to my

complications with migraines, tmj, and grinding my teeth I was

forced to have emergency appointments thursday and friday, thus

missing work due to excrutiating pain. My bosses said that they need

to rethink my position because I missed two days with doctors notes.

I am going to work tomorrow morning for the big GRILL session. Has

anyone had this situation at work? How did you resolve it? I had an

evaluation last week and they told me that I am efficient, accurate,

and more productive than any other student worker they have ever

had. They told me that since I had surgery that it was a problem and

was reflected in my evaluation. I know that this is just a part-time

job and that I am a student and need to really remain focused on my

health and school, I am just frustrated and scared to face them

tomorrow. I guess that I just need to be reassured that I did

nothing wrong by missing work for surgery and emergency

appointments. Anyone with comments please help me and my nerves!

Bethany

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