Things that were going on in my personal life slowly started leaking into work.

I would show up late.

I would leave early.

I would be hung over and look like shit almost every day.

I just didn't care.

I still did my job, the basic requirements... but it just took so much energy.

I could not function.

I was having a nervous breakdown.

My boss, Doug, clearly did not like how I was behaving but he never told me this, he was just awful to me. This did not help motivate me. It made me not care even more.

One day a coworker, Mel, pulled me aside and told me that I was going to get myself fired.

She told me that I needed to help myself and go to the doctor to be put out on stress leave.

That night I fo...

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