I'm not going to get into the specifics of the situation. This is mainly just a vent that will serve no other purpose than for me to let off some steam.
1. I'm willing to be that if it had been a VP with prostate cancer, executives would have tripped over their.....well, we won't go there, but lets just say the outcome would have been different from mine.
2. It was not a mutual decision, despite what some people have been told. The decision was made FOR me....not BY me.
I realized my symptoms were not only becoming problematic for me, but were causing serious friction between me and my team lead. So....I went to our superior to explain to him exactly what sort of problems I was experiencing. I wanted him to hear exactly what problems I was having and the causes from me....not someone else's opinion that I just was not doing my job.
At that time, I was told that my team lead had a lot thrown at him this year.
Did I hear right? My team lead had a lot thrown at him this year? Really?
Did he get diagnosed with cancer?
Did he have to have surgery and a one week hospital stay during the worst ice storm the state had seen?
Did he get readmitted for another week due to a post operative infection?
Did he have to self-administer an IV antibiotic for three weeks at home?
Did he have to go to the hospital everyday for six weeks for pelvic radiation?
Did he have to have two blood transfusions in order to get chemo?
Did he have to go to the hospital every week for blood work to get a clearance for chemo?
Did he have to visit an oncologist's office every Thursday and spend the day for 16 weeks to get chemo?
Did he spend the following Friday, Saturday, and Sunday so tired that all he did was sleep and get up to go to the bathroom and even that simple task required major effort?
Did he have to get poked and prodded in every orifice imaginable during every single doctors visit?
Did he have to have to have three internal radiation treatments that resulted in the simple act of peeing leaving him screaming in agony for three weeks after?
When he returned to work, did his coworker act like he'd only been away for a day....not seven months?
Did he experience the brain fog, forgetfulness, the lack of focus that was a result of the cancer, chemo, and menopause?
Oh.....and was his coworker's response "Well, how long is this going to last....a couple of weeks, a couple of months, or what?"
And did that same coworker tell him to ask questions and not waste time trying to figure things out for himself, only to get told to figure things out for himself when he did ask questions?
Did that same coworker suddenly decide to become a computer code nazi and question practically every line of code that was modified, order it to be redone, then bitch because it was taking too long? And by the way...who was reviewing HIS code?
Did it get to the point where his coworker beat him down so much that he began to realize there was absolutely nothing that could be done to please him?
I could go on, but you get the drift.
So......forgive me if I don't share your opinion that my team lead had a lot thrown at him this year. You gave the approval to hire a contractor to help him out.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the option to hire a contractor to do all of the above for me. 2011 has pretty much sucked for me.
There! I feel better....now back to our regularly scheduled programming!
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