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I am in the position of being managed out right now. For almost a year I have been on indefinite leave from my job as a middle manager with a professional association because of major depression and anxiety.
Since late January, I have been paid income insurance to cover 75% of my former salary. (So things could have been a lot worse, to be honest.) In four weeks, that income insurance will come to an end because my clinicians (GP, psycologist, psychiatrist) advised the insurers via the OT contractor that I am fully fit to work anywhere ... except my former job.
I knew that my former workplace was not a good situation for me to be in. But I still had to go through the process, in good faith. To suggest to my employers things that would help me in my return, which I did in a meeting a month ago. I thought it'd help them too because I can see them being in the same position with the next person who sits in that chair on a permanent basis. But the replies came back from across the table 'No, we disagree.' Ad infinitum.
Before that meeting, I thought a lot about the suggestions I would make. I knew as I prepared for that meeting that the suggestions that I made were the sort of things that wouldn't endear me to my boss or the CEO because what I said implied that their way of doing things was ... just maybe ... less than 100% ideal and a culture was being instilled where people in some positions were expendable and others could do what they liked. It was a calculated risk, and I didn't expec things to change. But I approached that meeting constructively and in good faith. And I'm being repaid for it by having my income insurance stopped.
Yesterday, my boss emailed me asking for a follow-up meeting to discuss the prospects for my return. Assuming that their attitude hasn't changed, I'd have a relapse if I were to return. I don't want to be in that position again.
The aren't a lot of permament jobs about in my profession. I'm getting some freelance work starting next week at a former employer. But I'd rather have a permanent job. It doesn't need to be a massive earner. It doesn't even need to match the salary I used to make. (You don't go into my profession expecting to become rich.) But the applications I've been putting in all year have got me nowhere.
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