Published on 12, July, 2020
Continuing with my problems at work.
And the incidents that annoy me.
I work as a support worker with people having both physical & mental disabilities who exhibit challenging behaviour.
Last week I got a severe reprimand from a senior support worker for using my smartphone at work. I was checking the weather forecast on the BBC site. A couple of hours later the same support worker was spending hours on her smartphone playing solitaire, while her colleague was on social websites. I hate hypocrisy.
I still haven't been sacked. But I am facing a formal disciplinary hearing in two weeks time, where one option is dismissal.
New charges against me include, that at one meeting I was moving about on a rotating chair playing with it. I was actually stimming while under stress and trying to relax.
At yesterday's hearing I was warned not to rant, go off topic or express opinions. Just state the facts. So I'll do the ranting here instead.
I was in a suitable job, supporting people with complex mental/physical disabilities. Helping them to lead better lives. Unfortunately I did not tick all the boxes of the essential skills needed to do the job independently.
I understood the needs of the clients and felt genuine empathy for their problems and difficulties. Rather than just doing the job for the money as some of my colleagues.
I got along with half of my colleagues at work. And managed to work with them as a team. Unfortunately the other half were suspicious of me and my motives for working there. I was even asked by someone if It was true that I was a spy for the management ?
Many of them felt that I didn't belong there.
I got off on the wrong foot with the management right from the start. And it was downhill all the way. Their mind was made up inside the first week that I should go.
As the old saying goes. " You only get one chance to make a first impression"
I will save the anecdotes of some of the dodgy things that went on there for future posts. I was warned by my support worker not to mention these at the hearing because it would sound like me whinging and whining.