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Some jobs are more dangerous than others, and in this story, we hear about a man who has been injured a whole lot while at work. He has dealt with lawyers and workers compensation companies every time, but now, he’s been injured so much that even moving to office work is hard for him.

Human resources told him to take a month off work to recover, but they weren’t really being honest. Now, he has a lawyer on his side, but the future is looking grim.

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Company my dad worked at said they would hold his job for him while he recovered, but cleared out his office

My dad had held different positions within the same workplace for 25 years.

He started as a street mechanic and worked his way up to shift leader, and was generally liked by other workers (and disliked by the managers).

Kind of guy that values honesty and hard work but doesn’t always do it the way they want him to.

He’s also by far one of their most skilled Workers.

This sounds like a dangerous job.

But he’s been injured on the job a lot.

He’s been hit by pickup trucks and dump trucks, he’s fallen in ditches, he’s fallen out of equipment, and a whole host of god-knows-what-else that didn’t require him to go to the hospital.

It’s led to a lot of workers comp claims with third party companies that are just absolutely awful to deal with.

Each claim has a different company, each company will only cover different things, so we’ve had to get lawyers involved in it all.

Even office work is hard for him.

Along with that he can’t exactly work like he use to.

They moved him from labor to an office position, which he hates.

But the office position still requires him to do a lot of walking, bending, and lifting which he can’t do. And is on the third floor, which he can’t walk up to.

So his job sent him for a workplace fitness test that came back saying he couldn’t do his job anymore.

HR wanted him to rest.

HR called him to the office, told him he had to “take time off to recover” and that they would keep his position until the end of the month.

Then they had him apply for short and long term disability.

HR sent around an email saying he would be off for x amount of time and wishing him a speedy recovery.

They made him run all the FMLA papers around of course, so when he stopped in to give them to HR he stopped into his office to check his email.

Yikes! HR lied!

He had been locked out of it on his phone and wanted to follow up on something he was involved with.

Turns out they cleared his office out, locked all of his accounts, and deactivated his work number.

Luckily he forwarded all of his work emails to his lawyer, or else he wouldn’t be able to access them anymore.

So now we aren’t sure what to do.

This is awful.

Workers comp doesn’t want to settle any of his claims but doesn’t want to pay for any treatments.

Work essentially fired him for being Permanently disabled and worded it nicely so they don’t get caught.

The lawyers are scrambling to figure out something they can do.

I feel so bad for OP’s dad.

Poor guys depressed as can be because he wasted so many years working for this place just for them to throw him aside like this.

He wasted his time with his children and his health for this job. And once whatever happens happens he won’t be able to go back and get another job because of disability.

If anything his experiences have taught me that all jobs are bad jobs. Why even do something you enjoy when they’ll treat you like this when you’re no longer of service?

At least he has a lawyer. Hopefully something can be done.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

A former HR employee weighs in.

Here’s a life lesson.

Another person thinks it comes down to basic math.

But this person thinks they’re overreacting.

Maybe he’s not fired. Maybe they just need to wait out the month and see what happens. His job may very well be waiting for him. The real issue is if he’ll be able to recover enough to handle it.

It would be nice if he didn’t have to deal with stairs or if perhaps he were able to work from home sometimes if it’s the type of desk job that could be done remotely.

It’s sad when you work hard but your work doesn’t work hard for you.