After being fired for requesting schedule flexibility due to disability, the speaker discovered their employer never told them about FMLA rights. They fought back by transferring to a different team, city, and department within the same company instead of leaving entirely.
This is about the time I learned on my own about something called intermittent FMLA. HR never once mentioned this to me, that this benefit that was entitled to me by law, that as someone with a disability, I could take advantage of FMLA. Instead, they fired me. They said that they needed someone that could be in that role Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, every day, every week, no exceptions. And I said, well, wait, I can do that, but I don't get to take PTO anymore? And they said, no exceptions. And I took that conversation for what it was, and I put in an internal transfer to another team. So when they released me from my position, I had another position to go to in that same company, different, even different city, different department entirely.
