Work allocation changed since diclosure to supervisor

My manager has always known I'm autistic. She works on another site and generally is only on my site once per week, less now due to covid.

My supervisor and I don't get on, manager disclosed to her that I'm autistic because she said that it would help our working relationship. Frankly I think the woman is just a bully and nothing would help but manager really pressed the issue and I eventually relented.

I've noticed that since the disclosure I've been allocated all the boring, easy tasks. I'm a higher level healthcare assistant and my job contract involves needing to learn lots of specific skills. I was on a higher pay grade to the other healthcare assistants but their union argued that they'd been getting under paid. Lots of the healthcare assistants across the whole health board got regraded but on the job they were doing, they don't need to learn any extra skills even though we are all being paid the same. 

Some of the HCAs have chosen to learn some of my skills as their job is really boring and my job is more interesting but some decided they didn't want to. These people are now being given my jobs to do and my whole schedule next week is me doing what used to be their job. Thinking about it this has gone on since I was outed to the supervisor (who makes our schedule).

I want to speak to my manager about it but is it being petty? 

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  • Make notes of everything - dates, times, shifts etc. - you're going to need it when this gets nasty - when you bring it to the attention of management, you're probably going to be moved to another department to 're-start' fresh with a new supervisor (Think about where you would prefer to be moved to for when it happens) - but also be prepared to be squeezed by the supervisor until you walk away.       Speak to the union NOW and start getting your future grievance ready and make sure you have copies of all the management grievance procedures and job descriptions involved - this is how it starts - protect yourself..    

    Been there, done that.

  • I can't get moved to another department, HL-HCAs are trained in only one area so my skills aren't generic enough to move me

  • Speak to the manager that outed you - they need to make this right for you - including paying for additional training to allow you to be relocated - think through all your options but documenting everything is most important as well as getting copies of the paperwork involved - and you need to study the steps you need to make in the right order according to the procedure to ensure if it goes to tribunal, you're fully covered.    Also, make notes of all the times they don't follow correct management procedures - that where you win - technical errors..

    My experience with nasty female supervisors is that they will attack you at every level - way worse than any abusing boyfriend could!!!

  • Sounds like they are already moving against you - you need to start making this all formal - speak with HR and management,

    Write it all down so you've got a script in case you get tongue-tied in the conversations.

    I seem to remember that @trainspotter is very knowledgeable about this subject - (although I might be mistaken)

  • I had just come back from redeployment (covid) and I had minor surgery which manager had told supervisor about. Supervisor put me down to assist with a procedure where you can't be in the room with any illness or antibiotics so I told the nurse who runs that clinic and the supervisor went mental. I could hear her from the other end of the department and then she got me in a room with person 2 and shouted and bawled that she hadn't been told I was on antibiotics. I still don't understand what the big deal was.

    I'm actually scared because of the temperature dropping I always get a chest infection but if I end up back on antibiotics then I'll end up going through all that again and I can't face it.

    She actually phone the manager on the other site to report me being on antibiotics! It was insane.

  • I completely agree, if she is using another person to hide her actions she knows she is in the wrong. I believe you should be making this formal and you should ask your autism support worker to help you.

    Shouting is not needed in management and only gains you less respect from your colleagues

  • It's definitely been since then but that happened around about the time when the others were regraded and told they were allowed to voluntarily enhance their skill set so it may be a coincidence but it definitely feels like I'm being treated like an idiot because I'm autistic. 

  • That's blatant bullying - shouting is NEVER acceptable from management.

    I spend a lot of time in different hospitals and I see staff bullying going on ALL the time - it's disgusting.  

  • My partner is also a HCA in a hospital and has similar issues with Supervisors and other HCAs becoming friends to a point where the workload is shared out unfairly in favour of the 'preferred' HCA and this has nothing to do with ASD.

    You definitely have to speak to the Manager so they are aware of the situation, this doesn't have to be formal - but at least then something is on the record if you do then decide to take things further. Keep records and if you are certain it has got worse since your disclosure then the right thing is to stand up for yourself and this is most certainly not petty

  • To be honest it wouldn't surprise me, it was one of the reasons I was resistant to telling her in the first place. 

    I volunteered the information off my own back to someone else who I like and who has a teen on the spectrum seeking work. She's been really supportive and asks me about things I have going on in my personal life, she's a much better manager than my supervisor. 

    I was then "encouraged" to tell someone else who I like but she's friendly with the supervisor, this person is my supervisor when I'm on placement and manager said it makes sense. Ever since I was pushed to be out to my supervisor this person has been a bit cold towards me and I think her and supervisor have been talking about me. I don't know I just get a vibe. 

    There's been incidents where supervisor has used person 2 to block doors so she can shout at me (over taking antibiotics) and some other stuff that the autism worker is quite annoyed about.

  • Use e-mail so there's a hard record - anything said to you needs to be confirmed in writing.  

    Speak to your autism advisor - I'll bet they've seen this lots of times.

    If the supervisor has an acolyte, you can guarantee they are gossiping about you and running you down behind your back - because you're 'special'.   (not to make you paranoid - but it's normal).   This is why you need to nip this in the bud.

  • They could possibly push me to move to another hospital with the same department but my manager only manages this type of department so I don't see her trying to push me into another body part when she's not involved in that.

    My supervisor is retiring in a year and I've been trying to patiently wait her out (4 years and counting) but this feels a bit like the last straw. She particularly likes one of the newly re-graded people and it's showing on the rota! 

    I'll speak to my union and the autism support worker (who my manager doesn't seem to like me having) and see what they say about wether or not I should say something now or wait it out. The problem with working in the type of area I'm in is everything with the union and the access to work person is done through zoom or the phone so it's a challenge for them to see what's actually going on. 

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  • They could possibly push me to move to another hospital with the same department but my manager only manages this type of department so I don't see her trying to push me into another body part when she's not involved in that.

    My supervisor is retiring in a year and I've been trying to patiently wait her out (4 years and counting) but this feels a bit like the last straw. She particularly likes one of the newly re-graded people and it's showing on the rota! 

    I'll speak to my union and the autism support worker (who my manager doesn't seem to like me having) and see what they say about wether or not I should say something now or wait it out. The problem with working in the type of area I'm in is everything with the union and the access to work person is done through zoom or the phone so it's a challenge for them to see what's actually going on. 

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  • Sounds like they are already moving against you - you need to start making this all formal - speak with HR and management,

    Write it all down so you've got a script in case you get tongue-tied in the conversations.

    I seem to remember that @trainspotter is very knowledgeable about this subject - (although I might be mistaken)

  • I had just come back from redeployment (covid) and I had minor surgery which manager had told supervisor about. Supervisor put me down to assist with a procedure where you can't be in the room with any illness or antibiotics so I told the nurse who runs that clinic and the supervisor went mental. I could hear her from the other end of the department and then she got me in a room with person 2 and shouted and bawled that she hadn't been told I was on antibiotics. I still don't understand what the big deal was.

    I'm actually scared because of the temperature dropping I always get a chest infection but if I end up back on antibiotics then I'll end up going through all that again and I can't face it.

    She actually phone the manager on the other site to report me being on antibiotics! It was insane.

  • I completely agree, if she is using another person to hide her actions she knows she is in the wrong. I believe you should be making this formal and you should ask your autism support worker to help you.

    Shouting is not needed in management and only gains you less respect from your colleagues

  • It's definitely been since then but that happened around about the time when the others were regraded and told they were allowed to voluntarily enhance their skill set so it may be a coincidence but it definitely feels like I'm being treated like an idiot because I'm autistic. 

  • That's blatant bullying - shouting is NEVER acceptable from management.

    I spend a lot of time in different hospitals and I see staff bullying going on ALL the time - it's disgusting.  

  • My partner is also a HCA in a hospital and has similar issues with Supervisors and other HCAs becoming friends to a point where the workload is shared out unfairly in favour of the 'preferred' HCA and this has nothing to do with ASD.

    You definitely have to speak to the Manager so they are aware of the situation, this doesn't have to be formal - but at least then something is on the record if you do then decide to take things further. Keep records and if you are certain it has got worse since your disclosure then the right thing is to stand up for yourself and this is most certainly not petty

  • To be honest it wouldn't surprise me, it was one of the reasons I was resistant to telling her in the first place. 

    I volunteered the information off my own back to someone else who I like and who has a teen on the spectrum seeking work. She's been really supportive and asks me about things I have going on in my personal life, she's a much better manager than my supervisor. 

    I was then "encouraged" to tell someone else who I like but she's friendly with the supervisor, this person is my supervisor when I'm on placement and manager said it makes sense. Ever since I was pushed to be out to my supervisor this person has been a bit cold towards me and I think her and supervisor have been talking about me. I don't know I just get a vibe. 

    There's been incidents where supervisor has used person 2 to block doors so she can shout at me (over taking antibiotics) and some other stuff that the autism worker is quite annoyed about.

  • Use e-mail so there's a hard record - anything said to you needs to be confirmed in writing.  

    Speak to your autism advisor - I'll bet they've seen this lots of times.

    If the supervisor has an acolyte, you can guarantee they are gossiping about you and running you down behind your back - because you're 'special'.   (not to make you paranoid - but it's normal).   This is why you need to nip this in the bud.