Basically they screwed you
sort of like my firm screwed me. You do exactly what they tell you to do, and then someone else does something to screw it up.
We had work on a development server and reports and applications that I spent three months working on got overwritten while I was out sick. Plus my workstation got reGhosted and I lost work files that I had stored on it. They didn't ask me or even tell me that my workstation would be reghosted. I told them I had important files on it anyway.
Another thing that happened was that my doctor notes went missing from my HR file. So my sick days, even though I made up the time, were counted against me on my review.
Basically they were out to get me after that, but I did what I could to try and stay there and work as best I could. But three weeks after I returned from my short-term disability, they got rid of me anyway. Someone did something and they blamed it on me. No proof, they just suspected me, which is good enough to fire someone without a good reason in the state of Missouri. They told me they would not contest unemployment, but they did anyway. Five weeks without unemployment so far, I was told by the state that I would be disqualified for five weeks. If I am not able to collect, I am going to a video store or some other place and apply for a low paying job.
"In order to completely solve a problem, you must make sure that the root of the problem is completely removed! If you leave the root, the problem will come back later to get you." - Norman King
