I am a civil enforcement officer in the North East, just for admitting that i know your all groaning lol, Last Sunday 29/05/11 I was at work for 7am, at around 9.30am i started to feel funny, i call it funny cause i cannot find the words to explain the feeling i get, i kind off tingle and have what it feels like internal tremors / shaking, my breathing changes and i nose dive from happy and strong to well feeling funny!, i was a few minutes away from base but only 40 odd seconds away from mcdonalds so left the car park i was patrolling and parked up just down the road from the car park got out and walked to Mcdonalds to get some food, i went to Mcdonalds as it was closer to anything else that was open, i got my food and headed back to the van to continue my work and eat as i did.
As i got back to the van a member of the puplic was taking a photo of me returning from inside the coffee shop that he worked at then he came out an questioned why i had just issued a car in a car park then parked on double yellow lines to go to Mcdonalds, i did not tell him why i got the food but i did tell him a work vehicle has 20 minutes on double yellow lines, i feel it was better than staying in a car park with no ticket after issuing a vehicle for not having a ticket, he had his say i explained my actions and we moved on, i checked a couple more car parks then headed back to base to finish my food.
I should of went home sick, but as there was only four of us in i decided to stay as i would be letting my colleagues down, so i sat there for just over an hour with my manager and we talked, i explained what had happened and how i was feeling and he did not ask me to go out, we had our team brief and i felt well enough to get on with my work, the reason i took tis job is due to the walking we do we average up to 20 miles a day and since ding this i do feel stronger and fitter i have always been big but now mixed with the fat is a lot of muscle i have lost almost 3 stone in just over a year and i do honestly feel great, i went out that day and did my shift to the best of my ability.
We have a new team manager standing in till our contract manager finds a replacement, and he is a new breed of evil, he bullies the staff and makes us fear him every little mistake mad has gone from a talking or a warning to disciplinaries, in the 14 months i have been there i have not been in more disciplinaries in my whole life than i have in the past couple of months, in his eyes i went from one of the best to one of the worst, thing is though i was still doing the same and still getting the issues he bullies us, he sets us up to fail by bringing stress into the workpalce then he sits back and waits and in our job we do make mistakes there is a lot of thought that goes into the job and we get a lot of verbal and psychical attacks, in the past month i have been atacked twice due to wroking alone with no cover at all and with the mental stress brought on from the new manager my diabetes has gone crazy, i feel "funny" more in the past two months than i have since i became diabetic a few years back. im not sleeping and i actaully want to phone in sick or leave my position because of him, the first words out of my colleagues mouths on a morning is not good morning or how are you it is what sort of mood is Paul in, which is ****, no one should have to live like that let alone work like it.
On Tuesday 31/05/11 at 15.45 i was called back into base as Paul wanted to see me, and i was suspended with pay pending investigation for what happened on Sunday and on the Wednesday 01/06/11 i was in the local paper pictures and all....
I cannot afford to loose my job and to loose it due to feeling "funny" i think is unfair, maybe i should of ignored it and crashed the work vehicle, or maybe i should of just went home sick but i did not as i did not want to let them down even though i was feeling so bad i continued my shift for what.....the chances of getting sacked.
i felt stressed and unwell and now with splash of depression, you have to love life!
thank you and sorry i ramble a bit.....
simon keenan
As i got back to the van a member of the puplic was taking a photo of me returning from inside the coffee shop that he worked at then he came out an questioned why i had just issued a car in a car park then parked on double yellow lines to go to Mcdonalds, i did not tell him why i got the food but i did tell him a work vehicle has 20 minutes on double yellow lines, i feel it was better than staying in a car park with no ticket after issuing a vehicle for not having a ticket, he had his say i explained my actions and we moved on, i checked a couple more car parks then headed back to base to finish my food.
I should of went home sick, but as there was only four of us in i decided to stay as i would be letting my colleagues down, so i sat there for just over an hour with my manager and we talked, i explained what had happened and how i was feeling and he did not ask me to go out, we had our team brief and i felt well enough to get on with my work, the reason i took tis job is due to the walking we do we average up to 20 miles a day and since ding this i do feel stronger and fitter i have always been big but now mixed with the fat is a lot of muscle i have lost almost 3 stone in just over a year and i do honestly feel great, i went out that day and did my shift to the best of my ability.
We have a new team manager standing in till our contract manager finds a replacement, and he is a new breed of evil, he bullies the staff and makes us fear him every little mistake mad has gone from a talking or a warning to disciplinaries, in the 14 months i have been there i have not been in more disciplinaries in my whole life than i have in the past couple of months, in his eyes i went from one of the best to one of the worst, thing is though i was still doing the same and still getting the issues he bullies us, he sets us up to fail by bringing stress into the workpalce then he sits back and waits and in our job we do make mistakes there is a lot of thought that goes into the job and we get a lot of verbal and psychical attacks, in the past month i have been atacked twice due to wroking alone with no cover at all and with the mental stress brought on from the new manager my diabetes has gone crazy, i feel "funny" more in the past two months than i have since i became diabetic a few years back. im not sleeping and i actaully want to phone in sick or leave my position because of him, the first words out of my colleagues mouths on a morning is not good morning or how are you it is what sort of mood is Paul in, which is ****, no one should have to live like that let alone work like it.
On Tuesday 31/05/11 at 15.45 i was called back into base as Paul wanted to see me, and i was suspended with pay pending investigation for what happened on Sunday and on the Wednesday 01/06/11 i was in the local paper pictures and all....
I cannot afford to loose my job and to loose it due to feeling "funny" i think is unfair, maybe i should of ignored it and crashed the work vehicle, or maybe i should of just went home sick but i did not as i did not want to let them down even though i was feeling so bad i continued my shift for what.....the chances of getting sacked.
i felt stressed and unwell and now with splash of depression, you have to love life!
thank you and sorry i ramble a bit.....
simon keenan
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