Tyrant bosses

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So I have a massive headache right now and it's stemming from the facts that my boss is a d*ck and will not let me turn the lights off in my office or even disable the lights directly above my desk. Being oversensitive to bright light and having gone through this with him multiple times, he just randomly pulled rank and decided to be a tyrant. Yes I consider someone that puts someone else in pain for no reason whatsoever and will not budge in the slightest to be a tyrant. And now I'm royally pissed because I don't have much of a recourse to stop it. I can't wear my sunglasses inside (gratz regulations, that's outta uniform, something my boss loves to point out.)

So I'm stuck in an office with a glaringly bright flourescent light above my head driving a headache that I can do nothing about right now.

Well, the rant made me feel a bit better. Still have the headache though ><

I hope you feel better soon. Do you have any paracetamol or aspirin you can take to help with the headache?

Uhg. Tyrant bosses.

Confront him and tell them you are oversensitive to light and it really bothers you. You don't have to out AS for this either, some people just are oversensitive to light.

Insist on it.

Easier said than done, I know.

Otherwise, hows your resume?

My boss is a Master Sergeant. I'm military. Otherwise I would've quit a long time ago. And I have confronted him multiple times. There's really not much I can do I think unless my psychologist gives me a profile for neurological light sensitivity. I've already been to the opthamologist and there was nothing wrong physiologically. My only guess was sensory integration disorder, and I'm not sure a psychologist can dx that.

And SmallFruitSong, I'm sorry but I have pharmacophobia as well. It took about 2 weeks to even work up the courage to take melatonin for sleep. And that's a natural enzyme. Aspirin, not so much ><

Do you share the office space with others? Perhaps it's the impression of special treatment which goes against the grain of uniformity. I have the same problem, and much of it is attributed to fluorescent lights.

Two options are a table lamp on the desk or floor lamp, or switching the fluorescent tubes to ones with a lower color temperature. Offices generally use cool white or daylight tubes to get maximum light output per watt of energy consumed. They have a high color temperature (5000-6500 K) but can be harsh and artificial feeling.

A warm white tube mimics an incandescent bulb more closely and feels more comfortable, and is generally used in home light fixtures. The lower color temperature (3000 K) means they give off less light, but the overall effect is more natural and soothing.

Why'd you join the military? Didn't you realize that that job has no exit path until your contract is up?

I have an utter fear of any activity that has no exit path, and I make sure I've found it before I start. I get terrible anxiety in any situation where I've not identified some way to recover out of errors.

I've dealt with a boss like that a couple of times, going into Labour Unlimited, two years ago. It was hell. I'm glad that I'm a dustman now.