To cut a long story short I have been signed off work since the end of February, and have finally had a diagnosis this week which may or may not have long term implications for my health and ability to work in the future. I am awaiting further medical appointments ( in the next month) to see what the likely outcome will be.
I have had a call this morning saying that they would like to “invite” me to consider resigning on the grounds of ill health. I have worked for the company for 10 years, been promoted several times and until January had only had 2 weeks off sick recovering from surgery in the time I have been there.
I first began having symptoms in January and worked through as best I could before being signed off, though I did take four odd days off to try and recover. During this time I was WFH, this has since been stopped for people at my level. Shortly after this my symptoms worsened and I was signed off.
My company are now saying that the odd days I took have meant I have triggered their absence investigation procedure, despite the face that all absences were linked to my current condition.
Probably irrelevant but my last performance review rated me as exceeding expectations against every metric.
I’m not really sure what I’m hoping for from this post. I feel really disappointed that they aren’t prepared to wait for the outcome of my next appointments, when I should be in a much better position to assess my likely future health and work capability, and that they aren’t prepared to consider the January absences as part of this over all sick leave.
I fully appreciate it is frustrating having people on long term sick, having covered similar myself, but I can’t help but feel they just want rid of me.
Has anyone else been in this position? Did you leave or wait for absence procedures?