I am going to start with this.
I am listening to you. I really did take the time to read through what you wrote, to reply in as fair of an opinion as I can. Disagreement is not dismissal.
but they also don’t communicate with me outside of my symptoms.
This is an issue. They don't talk to you at all? What if you were late, no show, caught standing around doing nothing, eating on shift? They literally were happy to pay you to just keep a chair from floating away?
No one tried to give you something to do? Not even busy work? Sorting, organising, cleaning?
Did you ask for something? The best way I've ever found to motivate a supervisor to find me something to do, even when everything is literally done. Is take out the phone, poke the screen a couple of times and say "I'm bored."
Works every time.
Again, they have seen me much worse. I have never attacked anyone or become violent, I just tend to shut down.
With this line, I am deducing that you have a job function?
You are supposed to be doing something, somewhere, somehow. But when you get an anxiety attack (What I call your definition of upset. That's the term I use for being symptomatic to the point where it affects by ability to do my job, but still being able to get it under my control with the application of grounding exercises. This is what I call an anxiety attack.) You are unable to perform your job function for a period of time, while not on a scheduled rest period? Thus your productivity is being impeded by your symptoms to such a degree that the management deemed you are not worth the expense in wages?
What does shutting down do to your productivity? If everyone is ignoring you, how does doing nothing cause you to suddenly stand out, and in a negative way sufficient to warrant your dismissal?
Are you physically blocking a piece of equipment when you shut down, or a doorway or the copy machine or something?
Or is your shutting down somehow disruptive to your co-worker's?
Is this conversation you are seeking from co-worker's only what is necessary to do your job?
Either way, they are the ones that came up with the rule of asking me to leave. They didn’t even give me the opportunity.
This is their right. The management has the same duty to everyone in their employ. They don't have to let you do anything other than your job when you're being paid to do it.
If I went to my workplace right now, the only place I should be while off the clock, is in the room the schedule is posted, or the most direct or otherwise designated path to it.
If I do any of the following:
- Enter an area requiring personal protective equipment without the equipment and approval.
- Interrupt any other employees during the course of their assigned duties.
- Act in a hostile or unprofessional manner.
- Attempt to do anything other than reading the schedule, picking up tax forms, requested time off, dropping off a doctor's excuse, or anything else that cannot or should not be done during the course of a paid shift.
- Forget to put on pants.
They have every right to ask me to leave. They also have the right to have me removed from the premises by force, should I refuse to comply with the verbal demand.
It doesn't matter if they let me hang out there all last week, every day for the 10 year's I've worked there or if I was invited.
If I'm told to leave, I must go.
They also do absolutely care about liability and insurance. I guarantee that.
Why?
Because businesses of a certain size, must pay for WCB. Just as you must pay to insure your car.
Whenever a compensation claim is approved, the premium on the WCB policy goes up.
Just as car insurance premiums go up after each crash involving your vehicle, irregardless of whether or not it was your fault.
That's why work safety is pushed by large businesses even at the cost of productivity. It's still cheaper than running a fast and careless operation.
Believe me, they care. They just don't need to explain in detail to every single person, they ask to leave the premises due to health and safety concerns.
I got upset because I walked through the middle of a room of them talking and everyone completely ignored me.
This was the day they called campus security to remove you?
Then... Yeah. Why would you expect anything else?
You said you were off the clock. What needed to be said? It couldn't be job related, you were not supposed to be working.
If you were looking to shoot the shit with your mates on the company dime? That's probably why they kicked you out. They're not obligated to let you distract other employees, whom they are paying to do a job, because you felt like a chat. Sorry, but no.
Then when no one wanted to get in trouble for socialising with you, you become symptomatic and start making a scene when they won't let you stay?
I don't doubt that felt really shitty, but that's not wrong of them to have done.
If this is a regular thing with you? Please, please just be honest with yourself and correct this behaviour. It's going to make you resented by co-worker's when any management let's you do this, or fired by the one's that don't.
If I'm wrong and you aren't doing this? Then ignore this advice. Either way, think about it.
This issues has been ongoing and feels very dehumanizing, but I was coming back from therapy which made me particularly sensitive that day.
This is not your employer's problem. It just isn't. Especially when you aren't supposed to be there for a shift. If you can't regulate yourself and aren't needing to be at work? Stay away from work!
Afterwards, I tried to email them explaining how I was feeling and my confusion about how they reacted and what I thought should have been done. (My friend and therapist both read it and said it was well stated and not attacking). But instead of responding to me and letting me be heard, they told my dean I am not welcome back.
This is again their right. If you were fired for causing issues off the clock, they don't have to give you an audience.
They are the ones that said I would never get in trouble for telling them how I felt and that’s exactly what this feels like.
Did you ever get in trouble for anything you told them as it pertains to your job duties, while you were on shift?
I have lost thousands of dollars over this. Even if it does get resolved by the end of the year, there isn’t any work left to do 3 weeks from now.
How did you lose thousands over this?
It just feels like the situation only exists and has only escalated this far because no one will listen to me.
It sounds like this became an issue that ended up working both ways.
I can’t even really go to events because my now former bosses would be there.
Why not?
They aren't your bosses. They just ignored you anyways. Mutual silence shouldn't be difficult to achieve.
Seriously. You aren't there for them anyways, just more faces in a crowded room. On your own time, you're not obligated to give them an audience.
I can’t live my life avoiding them everyday, but encountering them would only rip it open again.
Nope. You hold your head up high and proud, walk right past them without giving them the time of day.
They ignored you, you can now ignore them. You can find a better job. Believe me, there's lots of them out there. Some great, some average, some complete shit. But they're all different.
