I was also paid for an additional few months to get on my feet again, but due to the impacts of my illness and my being on disability, finding another hybrid part-time sitting down job was near impossible. When I tried work that involved physical labour, I fainted a few weeks in.

I continue to be unemployed and my partner and I were down to $0 this past December. I still care about the folks at the organization, and wish them well, but personally I feel as if I’d been the scapegoat due to finances. Especially since no one else had been fired before in the org’s history.