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My district manager pulled me into the office and gave me a hard time about my condition. Advice?
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<blockquote data-quote="Catsymoo" data-source="post: 1572390" data-attributes="member: 45466"><p>Hello. I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I'm one of the type 1 diabetics that has more of a hard time managing my condition than others (or so it seems), possibly due to anxiety and having to take other medications for allergies. I have days where I feel absolutely awful and my sugars swing high and low. Or days where I have overnight hypos and nausea and by the time I have to go to work, I've had no sleep and feel too ill to go work a 13 hour shift 2 hours away from home. I also suffer from major anxiety, and if I have hypos in public I also have panic attacks. I constantly have anxiety about hypos, to the point where I overeat before a work shift so I don't go low and embarrass myself or cause hassle as my current job is VERY cutthroat and nobody cares about anyone but themselves.</p><p></p><p>I changed jobs in January, I went from doing 4am starts every day to a zero hour contact job with all different start times. Everything has been mostly OK until the last couple of months. I moved house and I can't keep up with work and the housework/bills/paperwork etc, I have too much to do and the stress is murdering my sugar levels and causing me to miss work on some days. I barely get a full night's sleep. For the most part, they aren't too bothered because it's zero hour. There's no ''sick policy''. You either show up or don't. I've missed 3-4 days since August. One wasn't diabetes related, I was waiting in the walk in clinic to get an infected eye seen to, and ended up waiting 7 hours and missed work.</p><p></p><p>I came back from working in the Channel Islands for 3 days last week, and while I was at the office waiting for a lift, my boss pulled me into the office and was not very nice to me. He said, ''I'm gonna be blunt. I just don't understand your condition or why it is such an effort for you to manage it. It seems like you don't manage it at all and I need something from your doctor to explain to me and prove you have this condition.'' </p><p></p><p>I DID declare it when I was hired, they're so disorganized they just lost the file. I know it. I also tried to explain that it is not one size fits all, and me living my life and not blind or dead IS me managing it. I have mostly good days, but lately I've had bad days where if I came to work I would just be sat in a corner throwing up jelly babies, because my bad day hypos seem to last for hours, and I get ''hypo hangovers'' if you will and usually end up nauseated and vomiting unless I lay down and go to sleep for a few hours. My job is very physically demanding and requires intense concentration and accuracy, and the last thing anyone needs when unwell is to be stuck in a bathroom 3 hours away from home, unpaid and no one to take you home.</p><p></p><p>I like my job, so getting another one isn't an option. I just need to know if my boss is trying to find a loophole and should I be taking note of any flack he's giving me about this? I will be okay, it's just stress causing this, and I really don't want to feel discriminated against. I try not to make a big deal out of my condition, but I get so annoyed when my co workers give me dirty looks when I have to go off to test or take insulin or see me eating sweets like a fatty who needs to eat. It's not a leisure break and they just don't get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catsymoo, post: 1572390, member: 45466"] Hello. I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I'm one of the type 1 diabetics that has more of a hard time managing my condition than others (or so it seems), possibly due to anxiety and having to take other medications for allergies. I have days where I feel absolutely awful and my sugars swing high and low. Or days where I have overnight hypos and nausea and by the time I have to go to work, I've had no sleep and feel too ill to go work a 13 hour shift 2 hours away from home. I also suffer from major anxiety, and if I have hypos in public I also have panic attacks. I constantly have anxiety about hypos, to the point where I overeat before a work shift so I don't go low and embarrass myself or cause hassle as my current job is VERY cutthroat and nobody cares about anyone but themselves. I changed jobs in January, I went from doing 4am starts every day to a zero hour contact job with all different start times. Everything has been mostly OK until the last couple of months. I moved house and I can't keep up with work and the housework/bills/paperwork etc, I have too much to do and the stress is murdering my sugar levels and causing me to miss work on some days. I barely get a full night's sleep. For the most part, they aren't too bothered because it's zero hour. There's no ''sick policy''. You either show up or don't. I've missed 3-4 days since August. One wasn't diabetes related, I was waiting in the walk in clinic to get an infected eye seen to, and ended up waiting 7 hours and missed work. I came back from working in the Channel Islands for 3 days last week, and while I was at the office waiting for a lift, my boss pulled me into the office and was not very nice to me. He said, ''I'm gonna be blunt. I just don't understand your condition or why it is such an effort for you to manage it. It seems like you don't manage it at all and I need something from your doctor to explain to me and prove you have this condition.'' I DID declare it when I was hired, they're so disorganized they just lost the file. I know it. I also tried to explain that it is not one size fits all, and me living my life and not blind or dead IS me managing it. I have mostly good days, but lately I've had bad days where if I came to work I would just be sat in a corner throwing up jelly babies, because my bad day hypos seem to last for hours, and I get ''hypo hangovers'' if you will and usually end up nauseated and vomiting unless I lay down and go to sleep for a few hours. My job is very physically demanding and requires intense concentration and accuracy, and the last thing anyone needs when unwell is to be stuck in a bathroom 3 hours away from home, unpaid and no one to take you home. I like my job, so getting another one isn't an option. I just need to know if my boss is trying to find a loophole and should I be taking note of any flack he's giving me about this? I will be okay, it's just stress causing this, and I really don't want to feel discriminated against. I try not to make a big deal out of my condition, but I get so annoyed when my co workers give me dirty looks when I have to go off to test or take insulin or see me eating sweets like a fatty who needs to eat. It's not a leisure break and they just don't get it. [/QUOTE]
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