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] Date Posted:10:27:34 04/21/08 Mon
I am so discouraged. I had a job for 20 years and did pretty well. I worked in a small family owned store through 3 generations. The last generation was a real killer. He inherited it from his Dad. He is a college educated man, mensa level intelligence and a perfectionist. He didn't really want the store but due to his fathers' illness got it anyway. He had to put the rest of his education on hold and I feel he is very bitter about it. His father neglected to tell him about my dyslexia so I ended up telling him. He would try to explain what he wanted done around the store so fast that I couldn't even write notes. No one else would help me so I basically started hating going to the job that I used to love. He was a very mentally abusive to me and would roll his eyes when I didn't understand. He said he didn't believe I had dyslexia and that I was using it for an excuse to get out of doing anything right! Now how's that for a great boss! I guess I shouldn't have told him, but if I hadn't have done so, he would have just thought I was stupid. (Which he did anyway, I guess)
I have held down two jobs since then, one for 2 months and 1 for 1 week. I feel so inadequit and dumb. Everyone wants me to learn everything so fast and I try, but I just can't. I don't know what to do. I am so depressed. I've lost my home, now my car and all because I can't hold down a job.
I was diagnosed years ago and no longer have any documentation to back it up. I can't get any help through the state without that and I have absolutely no money for testing. Everyone online wants money to do that and so do the local doctors. Anyone have any suggestions? Help!!
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Date Posted:15:20:22 04/22/08 Tue
My God - what an awful situation for you and sounds like you had the boss from hell! I'm from the UK, so the only suggestion I can think of is to go to the Citizens Advice Bureau for more info on how to get things back on track. I totally understand how you must be feeling and the kind of treatment you have been putting up with. People can be so cruel.
Where can I go for free help?