Catsymoo
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 301
- Location
- Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Having diabetes
Hey guys,
Need a bit of advice here. I'll keep this as short as I can. I work for a company where I am on the phone so we have ''states'' to put ourselves in such as ''active'', ''lunch'' etc. I work 9-5 style shifts, and we get a 1 hour lunch break. They recently introduced 2 extra paid 15 minute breaks, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon to help reduce people's ''personal'' time.
They seem to be expecting ''personal'' time to now be 0 for everybody, but I use the odd 5 minutes here and there to test my sugars, calculate my insulin, change needles etc, you know how it goes. Before the breaks, I used to use about 20 minutes personal time per day for managing my diabetes, toilet breaks and grabbing drinks etc.
I got grumbled at for my personal time in my appraisal on Monday and it is now being escalated to Occupational Health to help support me, but I really don't know what they can do. It's not like I am taking the cake or anything, I have greatly reduced my personal time but it has still been 32 minutes over the course of the month, and work doesn't seem to comprehend that diabetics might need an extra 5 minutes some days (it's not even that if you divide 32 minutes by days in the month on average).
Am I being unreasonable here? I try to utilize my extra paid breaks, but if I don't feel great I need to test/inject/treat hypo, it doesn't matter if that happens in my break or not, I need to sort it! And I pee more often. I had a hypo on Monday and spent 7-8 minutes in personal time treating it, and I got grumbled at/questioned about it.
Need a bit of advice here. I'll keep this as short as I can. I work for a company where I am on the phone so we have ''states'' to put ourselves in such as ''active'', ''lunch'' etc. I work 9-5 style shifts, and we get a 1 hour lunch break. They recently introduced 2 extra paid 15 minute breaks, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon to help reduce people's ''personal'' time.
They seem to be expecting ''personal'' time to now be 0 for everybody, but I use the odd 5 minutes here and there to test my sugars, calculate my insulin, change needles etc, you know how it goes. Before the breaks, I used to use about 20 minutes personal time per day for managing my diabetes, toilet breaks and grabbing drinks etc.
I got grumbled at for my personal time in my appraisal on Monday and it is now being escalated to Occupational Health to help support me, but I really don't know what they can do. It's not like I am taking the cake or anything, I have greatly reduced my personal time but it has still been 32 minutes over the course of the month, and work doesn't seem to comprehend that diabetics might need an extra 5 minutes some days (it's not even that if you divide 32 minutes by days in the month on average).
Am I being unreasonable here? I try to utilize my extra paid breaks, but if I don't feel great I need to test/inject/treat hypo, it doesn't matter if that happens in my break or not, I need to sort it! And I pee more often. I had a hypo on Monday and spent 7-8 minutes in personal time treating it, and I got grumbled at/questioned about it.