Woman Says She Was Fired After Nearly 13 Years as She Sought Help for Heavy Drinking — ‘I’m 10 Days Sober’

A woman shared in a Reddit thread that she went through what she considered one of the worst years of her entire life, which included getting divorced and losing her cushy corporate job. To top it off, she admitted she had been struggling with “heavy drinking” to the point that she decided to seek professional help to stop. But it seems that help might have cost her her job.

So despite the hurdles she overcame, like getting out of a two-year marriage that she claimed was miserable and described as “failing” and “toxic,” she’s turning to Reddit to share that she feels like a “complete failure at life,” though many people don’t seem to agree. Here’s what happened and why her story might be relatable for others.

Woman Says She Lost Her Job After Seeking Help for Heavy Drinking

Reddit user u/PeggyHillsFeets took to the r/jobs thread to detail what she’s been going through that has left her feeling pretty down. She says that a year after her divorce, she lost her “decent corporate work from home job.” She said she had been with the company for almost 13 years, but that during the past two, “my performance went downhill (ended up on a PIP), and due to the stress I started drinking heavily but I was very high functioning (no one knew, I did the majority of my heavy drinking alone at home).”

While she said she occasionally isolated herself, she also still had interactions with friends, describing herself as the “boss babe bad b***** handling everything with a cute corporate job,” while admitting she was “an absolute mess inside but with a pretty veneer.”

But she says things really started to “crumble” when she began experiencing health issues and sought help. “I went to detox and spent some time in the hospital. Miserable doesn’t even begin to describe that process. I’m 10 days sober today,” she explained in her post.

Given all that had transpired, she said she was going to file for FMLA/STD, but when she called her boss, they didn’t answer. And when she tried to log in to the system, her access was revoked. She says that an hour later, she received a knock on the door and it was likely from a process server who handed her a letter of termination “due to not meeting job requirements.” “I lost every bit of my s***. Had to call my therapist and a few other people to calm down. I’m relatively okay now,” she shared.

But now she says she feels “like an entire failure at life” because she doesn’t have a degree and worries she won’t be able to get a similar job again.

However, people in the comments reassured her that we all go through points in our lives where we consider ourselves “failures,” and the most important thing is that she focus on her sobriety and not sell herself short given her work experience.

The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the claims made in the Reddit post, which are based solely on the author's account shared on r/jobs.