Raake

Part-time human, full-time critter

  • she/they/it

A shapeshifter of sorts
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🏳️‍⚧️ Mtf

🩶 Gray ace (🔞)

💊 ADHD

😴 Perpetually eepy
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profile pic by Lilly


first time dealing with occupational healthcare. jfc this shit's unnecessarily convoluted and tedious. i'm honestly not even 100% confident this is how things went down (what with what felt like a dozen phone calls in every direction) but it must be close.

so this morning i had to call my workplace (6am) to call in sick. then i did the same with my employer (8am). told them i'd go get a doctor's note, but my employer directed me to their ohc. "a minor inconvenience" i thought, and just went along with 'em. boy was i wrong...


after spending way too long just trying to figure out how to make an appointment - even their app failed me, for reasons that only became apparent later on -, i finally called the ohc provider. was told they couldn't find a bond(?) for me, so i called my employer again for advice. they told me the name of their healthcare partner and told to ask for that. it is now 10am.

called the ohc provider again, had the call redirected to my local unit, but i wasn't registered in my employer's bond so i had to call them yet again. they told me they couldn't register me themselves, so they gave me a name for their doctor and told me i could get it sorted during the appointment. i called the ohc provider and left a callback request for the doctor.

the doctor called me after 30 minutes, gave me a note for 2 days of sick leave and registered me on the bond (...or, at least i think they did). this was the only pleasant part of the whole process. it is now 11am.

all of that for just two days of sick leave! i could've just used the local public healthcare unit for the note, for free! i'm sick, and tired, and sore, and stuffy, and can barely get coherent sentences out of my mouth, and i had to go through all of that. for just two days.

fuckin' hell.


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