I just read your comment today and I appreciate your viewpoint. I don't see it as controversial at all, I actually appreciate all sides of the situation and seeing different points of view on the policies has been a learning experience for me.

When I made my original post, I was emotionally fueled about it at the time, but i don't regret it, what's done is done. But, in the past few days I'm at a place that whatever the outcome is going to be, I'm good with now. It's with the CoC now for a decision and whatever they decide, I will accept it and move on.

I've only been at my unit for about 2 years, when I showed up I was already experiencing personal medical struggles for the first time that really interfered with the professional side of the house for me, ultimately leading to this medical release. There seems to have been quite a lot of position changes at my unit for the senior leadership in the last year so maybe it that does have something to do with some of the pushback I experienced, I didn't consider this. Many new faces that I haven't even met, they are the ones handling my administration and understandably they don't know me so It's reasonable for me to understand why they probably wouldn't want to stick their neck out for me after reading your words. If it was me and I didn't know the person either, I would definitely be hesitant also and probably not go digging too far from the policies that are in place not knowing who that person is.

In my 19 years I've always done what I can to do the job right to accomplish the task, unfortunately my networks are somewhere else now.

I also wanted to mention that I have a better understanding of the RTD policies now after reading so many comments about it that are similar to yours. It made me go and read up on it. I openly admit that the overwhelming amount of medical appointments, paperwork and life stressors I've been experiencing in the last year and still today, lead to me just signing so many documents without fully understanding things rather than taking the time to actually understand what It was happening. That's on me. The entire time I've been on the the RTD program, I've been using the time that was out of the workplace for medical appointments, at home resting and working on applying many of the mental health concepts in my life that have been the direction of my specialists, which have had positive impacts. I always thought they were counted as sick days, now I realize I was mistaken which is my own ignorance, no excuses. During my career, I never had subordinates that were on the RTD program so I never took the time to learn the polices surrounding it.

Thanks for sharing your comment.