I haven’t been writing about this issue because I wanted to get it resolved with my family and my employer before I spoke of it online. It was common courtesy.

I’ve been having issues with my health at work, again. I spoke about the fact that I pulled out my shoulders and was having flare-ups. Despite the fact that the chiropractor sorted out my shoulder I was still having problems with the strain on my body. For the past few weeks, Kore and my husband have been concerned about the strain I was under, and my husband had spoken to me a couple of times about turning in my notice.

Last week both he and I and Kore and I had long talks about the problems I was having and the earnings versus cost and I was leaning towards the fact that it was not worth it, but Sunday cemented that for me. I worked a short shift on Friday and was very sore all through Saturday. Then I worked a full shift on Sunday and by noon I was in a lot of pain. I was trying to put that on a combination of things, fighting off a cold, it being “that time of the month” but the fact remains that by the time I got home I was in so much pain I went to bed, and was pretty worthless for three hours. I drug myself out of bed purely because I knew that I needed to eat, and I was fairly out of it for the rest of the evening.

So, that cemented it for me. This can’t go on. I psyched myself up to go talk to my boss on Monday forgetting that her standard days off are Sunday and Monday. Boss rarely answers her phone when she’s not at work, and doesn’t seem to get voice mail messages, and I didn’t want to leave her a note or write her an email, because that’s very impersonal and also she has issues sometimes with other people at the job reading her messages, so I didn’t want to risk her finding out from someone else before me. I was able to talk to her yesterday and she was very understanding. I told her straight out that I was going to have to turn in my notice and when she asked why I explained that I was having flare-ups again and I didn’t want to be calling in sick when I was only scheduled for a few shifts a week, and she said she appreciated that because the type of job that I was working it’s hard to get someone else to come in if you can’t work your shifts, it’s easier to not schedule me at all.

When I called today to check on my schedule I hadn’t been scheduled, which I had anticipated from the way my boss was talking when I explained things to her. She said she wants me to be able to be well, and once I am if I don’t have another job she’ll have a place to me. I wanted to check though because I didn’t want to assume that she wasn’t taking into account the two weeks notice.

But as of this week I’m free of the store, and just that relief of stress makes me feel a lot better. I dislike I don’t have anything on record though. This was just personal realization, not anything mitigated by a doctor’s stipulation. So, I don’t know what that’s going to mean with regards the disability claim. However it is something that I’ve had to do. I can’t go on losing one to two days worth of my home life for eight to fourteen hours of work.