I am the account manager for our companies largest account. Following a reprimand back in September of last year due to a newly assigned Director/Cowboy scrutinizing electronic communications for punctuation etc (literally), I stood my ground and prevailed due to the customer/account not seeing things the way the new Director/Cowboy did. Needless to say this Director/Cowboy is no longer with the company. Their stay was short but their impact is lasting and I found myself on PIP as well as written up.
Following that, they made a good friend and coworker of mine an overseer of my duties and account in the interim. This made said friend uncomfortable and a four year solid friendship fell apart. I tried many times to mend the friendship but it appears that their employment was of far greater concern. No matter how hard I tried my efforts failed and bitterness ensued. I became extremely depressed, detached, withdrawn and spent some time in a local psychiatric facility under FMLA due to suicide.
Everything about my work was lost and I could not cope with the dissolution of our friendship and waning career; something that many people can easily look past and trudge on with. I could not.
I advised my immediate supervisor via FMLA forms and verbally that I was having some psychiatric issues with depression and one of the triggers for my emotional breakdown was the this coworker as well as the office et al. All of which had lost meaning to me and I could not focus on my daily duties. Feeling suicidal at every turn I felt hopeless.
My supervisor approached this coworker and advised them that I am on leave due to mental health and that they were a trigger for me. This coworker in turn contacted my wife via text and advised that they did not appreciate me stating to our bosses that they were a trigger.
This has escalated to the point where returning to work would be a measure of humiliation that I can not bare.
I'm not at all happy with the company that I have been at for nearly eight years, bringing in a new Director to shake things up, set my career on a downward spiral, ruin a friendship and then allow free flowing communications of such delicate nature and have employees contacting my spouse with information received in confidentiality.
I'm fairly certain that FMLA related medical illness details are only to be shared so that management and supervisors can administer my duties accordingly, but not to contact my wife with. Do I have any recourse?
Saddened.
Following that, they made a good friend and coworker of mine an overseer of my duties and account in the interim. This made said friend uncomfortable and a four year solid friendship fell apart. I tried many times to mend the friendship but it appears that their employment was of far greater concern. No matter how hard I tried my efforts failed and bitterness ensued. I became extremely depressed, detached, withdrawn and spent some time in a local psychiatric facility under FMLA due to suicide.
Everything about my work was lost and I could not cope with the dissolution of our friendship and waning career; something that many people can easily look past and trudge on with. I could not.
I advised my immediate supervisor via FMLA forms and verbally that I was having some psychiatric issues with depression and one of the triggers for my emotional breakdown was the this coworker as well as the office et al. All of which had lost meaning to me and I could not focus on my daily duties. Feeling suicidal at every turn I felt hopeless.
My supervisor approached this coworker and advised them that I am on leave due to mental health and that they were a trigger for me. This coworker in turn contacted my wife via text and advised that they did not appreciate me stating to our bosses that they were a trigger.
This has escalated to the point where returning to work would be a measure of humiliation that I can not bare.
I'm not at all happy with the company that I have been at for nearly eight years, bringing in a new Director to shake things up, set my career on a downward spiral, ruin a friendship and then allow free flowing communications of such delicate nature and have employees contacting my spouse with information received in confidentiality.
I'm fairly certain that FMLA related medical illness details are only to be shared so that management and supervisors can administer my duties accordingly, but not to contact my wife with. Do I have any recourse?
Saddened.
