Posted by ghost on February 9, 2006, at 10:37:47
i know i'm not around much any more, but i thought you guys might be able to help me.
i'm actually doing rather well these days, pretty much off meds and taking care of myself. i saw my pdoc today and off-handedly mentioned that they were moving my office soon. she asked where to and i told her it was the basement of a crappy bldg from a nice office with a window to a basement cube with fluorescent lights and no window. mostly i was complaining, but she instantly got upset and said that someone like me should NOT be deprived of daylight exposure and she was quite concerned. she wrote a note saying that i am highly sensitive to a lack of daylight exposure and that reasonable accomodations needed to be made to ensure that i was exposed to daylight for 8 hours a day while at work. she handed it to me and said that it was actually an ADA thing and they had to accomodate me.
she has a very valid point. and once she said something, i got to thinking. the last thing i want to is to revert back to the way things were with my health. i'm doing really well now and it'd be an absolute nightmare to start having problems again.
but i got to thinking in the car... people know i have a good office. it was the luck of the draw. my officemate and i have the best office of the 13 in our group because we have huge windows and a nice view. everyone else has either a windowless office or a cube in a basement or a warehouse. (we're spread out all over a huge site-- that's why we're moving, too, is so we can all be in one location.) i don't want my boss to think i talked to my doctor just because i'm whiny about moving to a crappy cube in a basement. i have enough problems right now with my job, i don't need to add any more upset. furthermore, i know it'll probably be a bit of a chore for them to accomodate me, because this is a manufacturing facility, with HUGE buildings and a large site. window offices are few and far between, because the buildings are so big, and the offices tend to be clustered in the middle where there aren't any windows. i also don't want to make my job harder, should they find me an inconvenient office that meets the recommendations, because i don't want to be 2 miles away from everyone i work with. (although truth be told, that's probably not as likely as i think it is.)
i don't know. i don't really know what to do. the pdoc has a very valid point that i really didn't think about when we were told we were moving months ago. and i don't want to get sick again. but i don't want to cause a stir, and i don't want to piss anyone off, and i don't want to get "special treatment," either. everyone else can handle cubes in basements... why am i so special that i'll get a better office?
i told the pdoc i was going to bring my light box in to my new office when i get it, and use it there, and she didn't think that was good enough. she also mentioned how bad the fluorescent lights were, and i noted that i wouldn't be able to avoid them if i were in a cube environment.
the company i work for is going through a huge amount of turmoil right now and i really don't want to rock the boat. i wonder if there is any kind of compromise.
i have a one on one meeting with my boss on wednesday and i think i'm going to bring it up then, but i have to figure out what i'm going to say, if anything.
any input is appreciated.
thanks,
ghost
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