Hi, y'all. First off, let me admit I'm stupid, and really really fucked up. Bad kitty, no treats. Skip the details below and go directly to the question, if preferred.
Shortly after my
last question, a crisis/opportunity came up at work (a small startup) that required batch data correction jobs to be coded and run nightly; I really needed the distraction at that time, and began working extremely odd hours - essentially, 15-hr days with naps between batch jobs.
This worked great for me through the end of July - I could schedule doctor's appointments, meetings with friends to get me out of the house... and reported directly to the COO. Our software was set to go live at the beginning of August, and I had booked the first two weeks of August off.
I came to notice that in addition to my vacation, every other senior staff member had also booked the same two weeks off. I brought it to management's attention, and offered to stay the two weeks and try to keep the app stable, with the full understanding that I'd be able to take that time off immediately after.
I was really trying to hold it together, but of course, all hell broke loose. The COO quit. We have no project management, so customers would call the owner directly threatening hellfire - meaning I'd be asked to drop what I'm doing NOW and fix this new problem NOW! We also have no network administrator, and were trying to track down causes of network storms and dropped connections in addition to all that. I was still on the same hours, and starting to suffer from severe sleep deprivation. My vacation was not happening: we need to fix everything now or the company will go under OMG BIG FIRE!!!
Then, as the hours really prevented me from being in the office too often (I'd essentially be coordinating OMG FIRE!! plans directly with the senior development team to make sure we wouldn't be duplicating the same work) - the decidedly nontechnical management that were left decided that as I'm not in the office, I must not "do anything", "have no visibility", and "don't let the right hand know what the left is doing".
As you can imagine, the hours, lack of sleep and absolute insanity turned me into a frothy, raging bitch - and I finally lost my shit completely, went on med leave on the 29th.
There's no short-term disability coverage with our group insurance plan, so I applied for EI. The company is not providing my record of employment, nor confirming how many vacation days I had left (I was told they only have a bookkeeper in once a month, but they're "trying to get to it sooner").
Um, so my question:
In Ontario, is there anything else to do besides reporting to EI a company's noncompliance in providing your Record of Employment and number of vacation days when you're applying for sickness benefits? I can't work right now, and with EI at least I'd know I could still pay my bills - I've never been on any kind of EI before, I don't know how to do this.
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posted by girlpublisher at 2:12 PM on October 10, 2008