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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
About three years ago I transferred to a new department at work, then for Christmas I received the gift of being diagnosed as Type 2. After returning to work after some time off I had a meeting with both my manager and department manager over the situation. Naturally being a new experience to everyone involved they were understanding, at first.
Because I would be working alone most of the time I felt it better if I returned to my previous department as I would be around more people if something happened, my second request was the possibility of moving my hours to and earlier shift, for the same reason and also as being on insulin I didn't want to be injecting while at work, I would have to inject at lunch but that's unavoidable. With the hour changes all I got was a we'll see what we can do.
I got told by my department manager that I couldn't go back to my previous department as I would be working alone and if something happened, which is ironic as over the years I am constantly working on my own.
Not long after because I was struggling with my new job and managing my diabetes I get called in to the office and questioned about my performance, asked if I would see Occupational Health for an assessment, then he started not so subtly suggesting that I would use my condition as an excuse for not doing my work.
Hearing this I realized that I'm on a road to nowhere where being diabetic is concerned, so I've kept my mouth shut even when I have a hypo.
Naturally as the years passed things are getting worse, I can't get a break to recover when I have a hypo, I've had to alter my insulin scheduling several times as I rarely get chance to take my entitled breaks. Whenever I've been called in to the office I inform them of this but all I get is "Well you should take your breaks" but it's not so easy when you are working alone and you receive a delivery that needs to be put away because it's a perishable or the delivery is so large that by the time you've offloaded it it's well past your break and you can't take the time back because you have countless other tasks that you need to get through.
I don't know if it's an 'out of sight out of mind' thing with my managers and they just think that if the ignore me they don't have to deal with me until they have to or they are just ignorant.
I have no confidence in my managers that I feel that the only way they'll do anything is if my condition gets to a point that I have an accident while at work.
Thanks for reading this little rant.
Because I would be working alone most of the time I felt it better if I returned to my previous department as I would be around more people if something happened, my second request was the possibility of moving my hours to and earlier shift, for the same reason and also as being on insulin I didn't want to be injecting while at work, I would have to inject at lunch but that's unavoidable. With the hour changes all I got was a we'll see what we can do.
I got told by my department manager that I couldn't go back to my previous department as I would be working alone and if something happened, which is ironic as over the years I am constantly working on my own.
Not long after because I was struggling with my new job and managing my diabetes I get called in to the office and questioned about my performance, asked if I would see Occupational Health for an assessment, then he started not so subtly suggesting that I would use my condition as an excuse for not doing my work.
Hearing this I realized that I'm on a road to nowhere where being diabetic is concerned, so I've kept my mouth shut even when I have a hypo.
Naturally as the years passed things are getting worse, I can't get a break to recover when I have a hypo, I've had to alter my insulin scheduling several times as I rarely get chance to take my entitled breaks. Whenever I've been called in to the office I inform them of this but all I get is "Well you should take your breaks" but it's not so easy when you are working alone and you receive a delivery that needs to be put away because it's a perishable or the delivery is so large that by the time you've offloaded it it's well past your break and you can't take the time back because you have countless other tasks that you need to get through.
I don't know if it's an 'out of sight out of mind' thing with my managers and they just think that if the ignore me they don't have to deal with me until they have to or they are just ignorant.
I have no confidence in my managers that I feel that the only way they'll do anything is if my condition gets to a point that I have an accident while at work.
Thanks for reading this little rant.