Finally got my disability retirement from the City!

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Filing that EEOC charge certainly changed things. I just wish now I'd disregarded my lawyer and applied much earlier. After 6 months of tricks and delaying tactics, the City couldn't wait "to do the right thing by Miss Sage" and "address the ADA issues she had raised in her termination", once they were staring down an EEOC charge. On Tuesday, I signed a legal agreement to drop the EEOC charge, if the City would reinstate on administrative leave and grant me disability retirement. My personnel hearing the same day lasted all of 5 min. to get the reinstatement. The Retirement Board met in special session the next day to rubber stamp the retirement. My first retirement check arrived in the Thursday mail, which meant they must have cut it before the Retirement Board met in order to get it out in the Wednesday mail. The change in attitude was head-spinning.

Ha! Makes you wonder how much they thought they'd have to cough up for the EEOC suit. Congratulations!