A college student from Ireland sparked chatter on social media after she revealed that her mother, who is a stage 4 cancer patient, was asked to get back to work by her manager. The student took to Reddit and shared a screenshot of the email her 50-year-old mother had received from her manager.
The email revealed that the manager asked her mother to submit a doctor’s letter confirming her fitness. “Can you please get a letter from the oncologist to state if you are fit to come back to work. If you are fit your oncologist must state if you are unable to doing anything specific, you cannot do to ease you back into work,” the email read.
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“Please send on your cert dated from March 20th asap,” it added.
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My Mum has stage 4 cancer in 5 areas and her boss has been pressuring her to come back to work. byu/disneydoll96 inmildlyinfuriating
The student further wrote in the comment section, “She was diagnosed 18 months ago and her workplace was notified right away, meaning the boss has been aware of the severity of the illness for a long time. Asking for welfare meetings less than 24 hours in advance is nuts.”
“She does hope to work again some day. Her team of doctors are always telling us that “yes it’s still stage 4, but you’re a fighter who’s staying stable on treatment”. Now, she has been on chemotherapy for a long time now, but I genuinely believe she will make a recovery. She had a lot of fight left in her,” she added.
Social media users sympathised with the student and her mother and lambasted the manager. “This is why jobs should not be tied to insurance. Sickening,” a Reddit user commented. “Stay hopeful! My dad was diagnosed at age 97 with stage 4 melanoma spread to lungs, brain, liver etc and beat it in a year and a half of immunotherapy, He lived to 101 and didn’t die from cancer,” another user wrote.
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