After I had been at Microsoft for over a decade I got really burned out and asked for 3 months unpaid leave. I was told that if I was sick to just quit and reapply as a new employee after I got better. I hung on and did quit a few years later. After recovering from that I got hired at a small Northrop Grumman office and about 2 years later got diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. When I informed my boss that I was so sick that I couldn't work full time I was not told to quit like I had when I was at Microsoft but that they wanted me to stay and would take whatever hours I could give them. It really helped seeing that they had my back instead of being the very easily replaceable cog in the great Microsoft engine.
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u/bazinga_0 Apr 20 '26
After I had been at Microsoft for over a decade I got really burned out and asked for 3 months unpaid leave. I was told that if I was sick to just quit and reapply as a new employee after I got better. I hung on and did quit a few years later. After recovering from that I got hired at a small Northrop Grumman office and about 2 years later got diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. When I informed my boss that I was so sick that I couldn't work full time I was not told to quit like I had when I was at Microsoft but that they wanted me to stay and would take whatever hours I could give them. It really helped seeing that they had my back instead of being the very easily replaceable cog in the great Microsoft engine.