This morning I was informed that starting next year I will be required to attend the company picnic so that I can assist and make sure everyone has enough beer to get drunk and act like idiots, etc. They ALWAYS have the picnic during the hottest part of the year. Where I live it’s going to be 88 and high humidity today and more of the same throughout the weekend.

Well, I haven’t felt good for the last week so this definitely hit me the wrong way, seeing as how the person who told me I must attend KNOWS I have MS and am heat intolerant. I politely but firmly said that I will NOT be attending the picnic, that someone else will have to go in my place. Needless to say it didn’t go over well. Too damned bad.

A co-worker started harassing me about it, saying it’s not that hot, etc. Now granted, she doesn’t know I have MS but still, she should MYOB. I said to her that she doesn’t understand that I have a medical condition and am not like everyone else, I simply cannot be out in that heat and that if I had to I’d go to the doctor and get a medical excuse. Well, she backed off, as well she should.

This picnic is not held during working hours but on the weekend so I cannot see where they have a leg to stand on trying to force me to go as part of my job. It just P’s me off that people who know why I’m ill still don’t get it after all these years.

Oh well, thanks for letting me vent – maybe by posting instead of opening my mouth I just saved my job.