>I was the one that the company sent to visit him in the hospital to check on him after his breakdown. What a horrible and terrible breech of the employee's pr

>I was the one that the company sent to visit him in the hospital to check on him after his breakdown. What a horrible and terrible breech of the employee's privacy. The employee has a right to privacy in the hospital and not having his coworkers "checking up" on him. If he was collecting disability, he should have his doctor communicate with HR/someone who handles the claims and HR needs to keep their mouth shut to others. I spent an extended time sick and a bunch of that time was in and out of the hospital and I would have been awfully pissed, really really pissed, if my boss or coworkers showed up to "check in on me." That was my private time to suffer in peace, I was disheveled, suffering, and in pain and the last person I wanted to see was my boss/coworker. I was collecting disability through my employer and my doctors filled out the appropriate forms and faxed them in to the HR person who handled medical claims. I informed my boss when I would be coming back to work when I knew and was cleared by my doctor. My doctor had to sign another form permitting me to return to work, so I called my boss once that form was faxed into HR. If they needed to know if/about when he was coming back, they could have called and asked if there was a time the employee would be back to work without asking details of his illness or progression. Sending someone to "check up" on him was terribly inappropriate and was possibly a violation of the law. Furthermore, the author also doesn't have any idea what caused the illness, don't assume it was caused by working too hard. There could have been no cause at all, or the employee could have had a history of acute psychotic episodes for all the author knows.