Can i ask for some time off work?

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Or less time.

Im feeling overwhelmed with my current schedule and actually starting to feel a burn out coming on. What should i do?

Have you accumulated vacation time?

Nope! Ive been missing a lot of time lately.

I don't know how "leave of absences" work in either New Brunswick or Canada. That might be your only option.

You can ask for time off work but you might not get it -- especially if you've only been at your job for a short time and have already taken lots of time off (is that what you meant by "missing lots of time lately"?).

Do you think that you are going through an adjustment period, or just a really busy time in your life (like is your schedule overwhelming just because of work, or are there personal things too)? Or do you think that it will always be this overwhelming or get worse as time goes on?

If you can't handle the hours you're working and it's not going to get easier (or is just getting harder and harder) it might be better to ask if you can work fewer hours.

It might be better for you than going through the cycle of burnout/near-burnout and recovery over and over again. It might also be better in terms of your relationship with your employer and your job security, I think, if it meant that you would stop missing work unexpectedly.....

If you have scheduled shifts then your employer probably relies on you and needs to be able to predict when you will and won't be available to plan for how they will get things done. Even when someone has multiple employees, they usually schedule people for work expecting them to be there and when one person doesn't show up it means that they have to either find someone else to fill in on very short notice or other people have to take on the extra work, and it can create a lot of difficulty.

Even casual on-call employees will sometimes be taken off the call-list if they are not available for work often enough.

In New Brunswick, if you have been employed at your current job for more than 90 days then you are legally entitled to only five days per year unpaid leave due to sickness (which I assume would be physical or mental and include stress leave .....source:http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/petl-epft/PDF/es/FactSheets/OtherLeaves.pdf).

Beyond that, it's up to your employer if they want to grant you a longer leave of absence. (There are other legally mandated types of "leave of absence" but, as far as I know, only "sick leave" would apply to ZombieBrideXD's situation.)

Does your employer know about your autism?

In Ontario we have ODSP, provincial disability program. Even if you don't need income support you could still qualify for employment support, and your case worker will work with your employer to help you manage your disability which can mean adjustments in hours to what you can handle.

Autism im sure is considered a disability. Even if your province doesn't have something similar to ODSP you could get your doctor to write a letter explaining your autism as a disability and how it affects you, and if there is anyway that your employer could accomodate your specific needs such as an adjustment in hours so you dont burnout or have a meltdown.

To be honest, I don't think most bosses would be ok with it because they don't understand burn offs. They'll probably interpret it as lazy.

Unless you have a diagnoses that says you need a break you'll pretty much be penalized or fired or just laughed at saying that.

You can ask for a vacation break but you'll need to have worked a certain amount without missing days.