This one is hard to explain but bare with me.
I started working at a shop at a ferry port and four months in I started having severe anxiety, unlike most times when I go through a bad patch it wasn't over in a couple of days or week but last several months before I decided I needed to take time off work and get myself sorted. I went to doctors and started therapy and they diagnosed me with CPTSD having been misdiagnosed for seven years as having GAD.
I identified one of my supervisors as being my main trigger.
Before going back to work I saw the occupational health doctor and he wrote a letter to HR saying that they should change my shift patterns so I would not being working with that supervisor, but they should also look at placing me somewhere else in the company when a position became available.
For three months everything was going well. My therapy was progressing well and even though I had a lot to work through and could be a little irritable at times I found myself feeling more confident and able to handle things and the flashbacks went away. I settled back into work and received praise from both managers and customers for my sunny disposition and capability. Then it was decided that their would be a similar shop put on one of the ferries. New people would be hired and the team would be split so half would work in the shop and half would work on the ferry.
A couple of weeks ago my advocate and I got called into a meeting. I got told that the supervisor I was having trouble with would now be my new manager. I would now be back onto shift patterns with him. They thought that they had given me enough time, 11 weeks of therapy ought to be enough. They knew I was capable at my job but if I was not ready to go back onto shift with that supervisor by Monday 9th February I would be fired. I explained to them that I was willing to work with him again, but not until I had finished therapy as I'm in an extremely stressful part of the EMDR and I don't want to end up having a flashback in front of this guy who just wouldn't know what to do and could make matters much worse. BUt they again told me that they;d given me enough time.
I got really annoyed because I couldn't understand why when separating the team they had decided that I had to be in the half that would be taken over by him. Especially when the their occupational health doctor had said to look at moving me if a position else where became available. I brought this up and they said that I had not requested it as a reasonable adjustment. I wrote a letter to them requesting it as a reasonable adjustment. They wrote back replying that there are no jobs open for me.
So yeah, I am putting in a grievance, I am looking for a new job. But still, I've never been fired before and to get fired because I have PTSD or more over because I refuse to put myself at risk (I can self injure during bad flashbacks) or even other people at risk. And because the company believe they can decide the timeline with which a person should be 'cured'. This is really upsetting me.
I started working at a shop at a ferry port and four months in I started having severe anxiety, unlike most times when I go through a bad patch it wasn't over in a couple of days or week but last several months before I decided I needed to take time off work and get myself sorted. I went to doctors and started therapy and they diagnosed me with CPTSD having been misdiagnosed for seven years as having GAD.
I identified one of my supervisors as being my main trigger.
Before going back to work I saw the occupational health doctor and he wrote a letter to HR saying that they should change my shift patterns so I would not being working with that supervisor, but they should also look at placing me somewhere else in the company when a position became available.
For three months everything was going well. My therapy was progressing well and even though I had a lot to work through and could be a little irritable at times I found myself feeling more confident and able to handle things and the flashbacks went away. I settled back into work and received praise from both managers and customers for my sunny disposition and capability. Then it was decided that their would be a similar shop put on one of the ferries. New people would be hired and the team would be split so half would work in the shop and half would work on the ferry.
A couple of weeks ago my advocate and I got called into a meeting. I got told that the supervisor I was having trouble with would now be my new manager. I would now be back onto shift patterns with him. They thought that they had given me enough time, 11 weeks of therapy ought to be enough. They knew I was capable at my job but if I was not ready to go back onto shift with that supervisor by Monday 9th February I would be fired. I explained to them that I was willing to work with him again, but not until I had finished therapy as I'm in an extremely stressful part of the EMDR and I don't want to end up having a flashback in front of this guy who just wouldn't know what to do and could make matters much worse. BUt they again told me that they;d given me enough time.
I got really annoyed because I couldn't understand why when separating the team they had decided that I had to be in the half that would be taken over by him. Especially when the their occupational health doctor had said to look at moving me if a position else where became available. I brought this up and they said that I had not requested it as a reasonable adjustment. I wrote a letter to them requesting it as a reasonable adjustment. They wrote back replying that there are no jobs open for me.
So yeah, I am putting in a grievance, I am looking for a new job. But still, I've never been fired before and to get fired because I have PTSD or more over because I refuse to put myself at risk (I can self injure during bad flashbacks) or even other people at risk. And because the company believe they can decide the timeline with which a person should be 'cured'. This is really upsetting me.
