Disc Function Nightmare
I lay on my back writing this the proud owner of not one, but three, herniated discs. I’ve always been an overachiever but this is really taking it too far. The pain has been incredible but I will meet with the surgeon today and I know that it can be fixed, I will heal, and before you know it I’ll be wearing high heels and dancing again.
Work is another story. Work has become a waking nightmare. My work days have become a hell which I would run from if I could but the responsibilities of bills and mortgage payments will not allow me to be free. It’s not the work I don’t like, but those I have to work with. I’ve been working for over 30 years and there are always a few people in every office that make life difficult for everyone around them. There are always a few who have been promoted beyond their level of competence. At Dysfunction Junction, however, incompetent, dysfunctional and flat-out crazy are not exceptions but the rule. The more dysfunctional you are, the longer we keep you.
Can’t work more than four days in a row without calling in sick? Welcome aboard. Have to take medication to get through the day? We need you. Caught drinking at work more than once? Please contact us immediately. Don’t know the law or best practice around your supposed area of expertise? We have a job for you.
It has gotten to the point that I would rather have severe back pain and be unable to bend over or go about my normal routine than be healthy and have to go in to the office. At least I know my back pain can be cured. There is no knife sharp enough to cut the disease out of this organization.
I’m trying to think of a way to keep the work and the paycheck but get out of social interactions with others. My first thought is perhaps I can develop a phobia to sunlight where I can only leave the house after the sun has gone down. Would they have to ADA accommodate me so I could work nights when no one else is there? Hmmm…….
Please send me any and all ideas!
McKenzie Free 
I’m so sorry to hear this news, any remote possibility of working from your home?
Working from home isn’t really an option in my line of work. A big part of what I do is tied to the accounting system which, for security reasons, can’t be logged in to from off site. Of course the rest of my job is to go to meeting after meeting after meeting….
Have you ever tried freelance writing? I normally don’t read ‘personal’ blog entries, but yours pulled me in and didn’t let me go!
I hope your body has started its final stages of healing. How are you feeling? I didn’t mean for those sentences to rhyme.
Thanks for the compliment. I haven’t been able to find a freelance nitch so far, but I’m always looking.