I quit my job.

Idk if this post is allowed or not but we’ll see lol.

As many of you know, I fell at work three months back and really goofed up my knee. Since then I’ve been dealing with all the medical backlash as well as the personal backlash at work. I’m a manager, so even with my “restricted duty” note from my doctor, I’ve been expected to push myself harder and harder at work, going well outside of my restrictions. This has been making my knee pain worse and worse.

I’ve been posting about it in the weekly threads, and everybody has been telling me to quit.

Well yesterday I FINALLY got to see an ortho doctor, who I had been referred to two and a half months ago. He said me going back to work so soon made my injury worse, and that had I been given an MRI when it was requested instead of having to jump through hoops to get it, I could have been healed much sooner. He stuck a 5 inch needle in my knee and drew out all the fluid, and then stuck ANOTHER needle in my knee with a cortisone numbing shot. He told me not to work today. I said I had to go in, I’m a manager, it’s a Friday, I can’t leave them short.

So I get up and get ready to go in. I took a fall while getting ready for work because my knee and down is still numb from my shot. I called work thinking I’d be late, they said it was fine. I got there at 8:00 on the dot, not late at all. I immediately told the other manager I had to have help today because I wasn’t even supposed to be at work. But, I didn’t get any help. Instead, I was getting cussed at and disrespected. Where I’m from, we call it “talking out the side of your neck” haha. A whole lot of that happening. I stepped away to call the big manager over us all, instead of going back and forth with the person and risking my job.

Once I was on the phone with the area director, I told him to go ahead and come grab my keys, because I was done. I said I was tired of having to push myself so hard and still being treated unfairly.

He said he was on his way. I wrote an apology note to him and stapled my keys inside. Left it on the desk. Walked out.

I feel so free. My offers and responses to requests might slow down while I figure out my next move. But I finally feel like I won’t have to kill myself to make that job fit for me.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk 😆 if I’m awol for a bit... I’ll just be enjoying my freedom.

Edit: spelling is hard