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I work in a manufacturing mill and I started showing symptoms of a stroke yesterday (10-9-26). Slurred speech, swollen tongue, blurred vision, pain on one side of my body.

I went to my supervisor and said I was feeling weird and I didn't know how to explain it. So she looked at me and said I don't know what to do? What should I do?

In my foggy mind I said I don't know. She replied with just go back to your job and leave me alone.

When I get home my wife saw me and rushed me to the hospital and now I'm sitting in a hospital bed.

Just for context — I’ve returned to work after a period of time off sick and I am curious what reasonable adjustments I could ask for to help cope with the return to work. I feel really stuck. Two days a week I’m out with clients, and the other two days, I’m WFH doing customer service calls and data entry (it’s a split role). Last week I had light desk duties but I’ve been expected to return to my full duties this week which makes me feel nauseous and is affecting my mental health. All I’ve had are panic attacks all weekend. Does anyone have any ideas of reasonable adjustments I could ask for to help facilitate a gentler return to work? Maybe one client a week for now? I really don’t want to have to go back on sick leave. Thank you.

I (18F) recently got my first job at a popular phone company based in Texas. I worked 12 hours and didn’t clock out the way they like us to (they track us on an app and we have to tap to clock out, I didn’t tap but still officially clocked out ). I didn’t realize they didn’t realize HR denied my hours until the paycheck hit my account and it was around $150 less than usual. And so I sent a formal email to the HR department with evidence of my worked hours and on 9/25/2026 they said they’ll send me my wages in a check. Now it is 10/10/2026. In Ohio, where I live, it is illegal to hold wages past the next payday, which was 2 days ago. My attempts to communicate with HR are being ignored. This being my first job I don’t know what to do. Any and all advice is welcome.

I don’t have any other travel for the next few months. So I took the day after having a hard evening to do some much needed housework and relaxing. Anyone else do this?

What the title says. I’ve reached my breaking point from bad management and unclear expectations.

I have been honest yet solution seeking about my frustrations. Gotten empty promises from mine and upper management.

I started working on an exit plan two years ago. Job applications, networking, maxing LinkedIn, tried it all.

“Just leave” is not an option in this economy. I see no way out. No improvement of the situation, no change in sight.

Those who have been there, how did you survive?

This happened at a prior job and I wanted to share. I worked at a theme park a few years ago. Through most of the year I worked in the stores and during the Halloween time I had done a temporary transfer to be a scare actor for the two months.

Afterwards, I was supposed to be transferred back to stores for the Christmas holiday season. At least that was supposed to happen. The Halloween event ended and I was awaiting an email about exchanging my store uniform to the holiday uniform. I never got it. I ended up emailing HR and my original department.

HR had responded first saying that I was allegedly showing up terminated in the system. Sometime later, my department sent me further details. Apparently, the Entertainment department had allegedly terminated me after trying to contact me. I had not received any emails or calls during that 2 week time frame.

My department had stated that they would hire me back and that my first day would be during the first weekend that the holiday event would start. When I went into the system, I realized that they allegedly had me as a regular associate instead of the team lead status, which is a title under supervisor position. When I went into work that night, I couldn’t clock in. It turned out that they never put me in the schedule. After that shift, I wasn’t scheduled for any more. I ended up putting in my two weeks and found another job. When they opened back up for the new season, I did put in an application. I got no response and had contacted HR again. They ended up telling me that I was allegedly put on the ‘no rehire’ list. I asked why, but I never got an answer.