Corporate concerns

This isn't specifically about prostate cancer, but it's related... or at least it seems to be.  And lest anyone mis-read this post, let me say right up front, this is not a complaint about anyone. It's just how I felt.

There was a concern expressed about how I was dealing with this whole experience, and what effects it might be having on my performance at work.  And so I was encouraged to work with my doctors and fill out a "medical treatment report" form... which I thought was a kind of corporate intervention.  After some research, though, I am glad I work for the company I do, because there are structures in place to help protect people from the considerable pressure of the workplace while they are going through some other form of pressure (in my case, this cancer treatment fun). So, I got over the hurt pride, and am working on getting the form sent in.  We'll see if it helps or not.

But it made me think... what if I hadn't been working for this company? What if instead of a caring discussion about what was best for me, I worked for a place where they had just come to me and just said, "hey... things aren't working out so we have to let you go"? I have worked for places where that would have happened.  Thankfully it wasn't the case here. But there's more than that...