I got to vent because I’m mad.

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I need help guys! My wife and I were involved in a car accident back in march on our way to me going to work, the other party was at fault, but I came into work left early to go to a doctor. I called out the following two days. So this is march 17,18, and 19. I brought a dated doctor excuse saying I couldn’t lift 20 lbs due to an injury from the accident. Management responds with we can work with you but if you go on full light duty you won’t be getting more than 20 hours. I’m a single income house of 2 kids along with my wife and myself. I can’t afford that. I stick it out and continue to work. Fast forward to April 1st I call out for three days due to a strain in my physical therapy. When I also find out I qualify for FMLA and start that process. Unbeknownst to me, I could have just said FMLA on my call out to self generate a case number. Since I didn’t have a case number I file the FMLA through the application process without a case number and then have it assigned once they receive my application. It takes two weeks of me dealing with the HRRSSC to finally get a grasp of what I’m needing to do for all this and the entire time I’m applying I’ve dated the application back to the original car accident date which is when this all started and stemmed from. The FMLA informs me they need additional papers to solidify my conditions. I provide and get approved a month later. But by then since my case numbers were never attached to my call outs and my station manager tells me he can only attach the case number if it’s APPROVED. At this point they’ve given me a letter of removal even with my grievance for the 14 day being processed and now I’m on leave because my station isn’t recognizing my FMLA case. Today. My grievance hearing is scheduled to situate all this and inform me if I can come back because I have every piece of evidence that I’ve been fighting to get this FMLA approved and have an approval in hand. My station manager didn’t show up to work today so now I got a call telling me they have to reschedule the hearing. What do I do? None of this was in my control especially since I couldn’t help that I got hurt in an accident I didn’t cause? And now where’s my station manager’s disciplinary action? I got bills piling up I can’t afford this!

Posted Jun 13, 2025, 12:25 PM UTC

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