My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Texas
I am a physician who lost the ability to practice clinical medicine due to chemical dependency. Therefore, I looked at medical writing as an alternate career. I have been in recovery and sober for over 2 years. I was hired by a contract research organization at the end of February as a beginning medical writer. First, as a new medical writer, they allowed me to work from home over 1000 miles away from the company. Secondly, my manager harrassed me each time we had a teleconference. I had voluntarily included on my application for employment that I was a recovering alcoholic and addict and that I had been to treatment. Approximately 8 weeks into my job, my manager called and again was very crass and accusatory. She stated something to the effect, "I found out something about you". In the beginning, she was very nice and told me that the initial training period would give me ample time to learn the system. However, the tone changed and last week I was terminated under the company's 90 day "probationary" period. While I do not have concrete proof, I feel the decision was due to my history of chemical dependency. I began keeping notes of our conversations because they had become so ominous (as it relates to me being terminated). I have my own opinions, but I will hold them for now. Does anyone have any comments? Thanks.
FYI- The company is headquartered in North Carolina. I was working through the Austin, Texas office as a regional employee in Cleveland, Ohio (home based job)

