Originally published in the Globe and Mail, June 16, 2011
Sheila Dockerty found out by mass e-mail that she had been replaced while on medical leave for depression. Her office, if she had gone back to a lesser position at the hospice where she was once executive director, would have been in the basement. It was the final straw in what had become an increasingly toxic work environment, with snubs and hostile e-mails that, she says, exacerbated the mental illness she’d kept under control and private.

