[mob]

I will not disclose my Type2 at my job, unless HR pulls me in and asks me. In my experience, telling co-workers/boss anything about your personal life, current life, med history = grounds for it to bite you in the *** later down the road.

I'm a supervisior for onsite techs for a large law firm in new york city. I know my BS levels will not effect my job, unless i make it to be. And if i'm missing work due to my poor controlled BS levels, i deserve to be fired.

[IrishJoe]

I'd never tell my employer anything about my health. They don't adhere to the HIPAA regulations, so anything I tell the doctor or nurses at work becomes common knowledge throughout the plant. Heck when they give us our mandatory yearly physicals, they take 5 or 6 of us in at a time, and do the physicals on us in front of each other, like the military does.

We've had employees take the physical where the doctor found the employee had high blood pressure. Once they find that out, they won't allow you to work until you get it under control. If you can't get it under control, you never get to work there again. The last time they forced me to have a physical, I didn't eat anything for 30 hours so my BG levels wouldn't show anything abnormal.(they use the urine strips to test for sugar in your urine.). I wasn't on any meds at the time and I knew what they'd do if they found out I had diabetes, so I fasted for 30 hours and it worked.

If it were me, I wouldn't tell them anything....even if it was illegal to not tell them, I'd break the law and still not tell them. No good can come from it. But that's me....I'm a very private person when it comes to my health. Only my doctor and I know what the state of my health is, and that's how I like it. Telling other people won't help my health, so why tell them my personal business?

welcome to the fatherland herr hitler ?

Seriously that's harsh and very illegal.

[lgvincent]

For what it's worth, in my personal experience I've found it best to not say anything about it.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by IrishJoe

welcome to the fatherland herr hitler ?

Seriously that's harsh and very illegal.

Hey there IrishJoe! Yes, I knew it was illegal, but when you work for a huge corporation that turns over a trillion dollars a year, they act like they can do anything they want. They treated the employees like trash.

Heck, they closed down one of their operations and mothballed the building. Several employees looked through a window and saw what looked to be files on the floor so they forced their way in to the abandoned building and found all of the personnel and medical files of all of the employees who had worked there, strewn all over the floor. They gathered them all up and tried to take legal action against the company, but the company counter-sued saying that the records where their's and they wanted them back. The company won and the employees were forced to return the folders, even though the company had abandoned the folders in an empty, unprotected building.

You can't fight big business.

[UpNorth]

I've always told my employers and workmates i've had since diagnose and it has never been a problem. Since I'm a T1 on insulin, it has been an extra security too, to have the people around me knowing, should i ever have a bad hypo at work, my workmates will know why i start acting odd or collapse and can help me get out of it. And they also know why i might have to take a short pause while working to go to have a snack. All my workmates has been good about it. Many of them have been/are very curious and ask me about things. I do have quite good control, and have never had any bad hypos at work. My diabetes has never affected my ability to work.