Hi all. Okay a bit complicated but I really do need help! I am 9 weeks and a bit pregnant today and I found out I was pregnant about 5 weeks. Anyway, during that time I was doing rather heavy lifting and pulling at work because work put me in the laundry and not as a cleaner which is what I am supposed to do. At 8 weeks I had to tell the supervisor I was pregnant as it was getting too much for me and it is VERY busy in there I don't even have time to sit down or eat lunch. I am in there for 8 hours. Anyway I told her and she said I will have to stick it out for a bit as there is nobody else to go in the laundry so I will have to be careful, which is ridiculous because what if I was ill? (coming to that)
Ok so I was in the laundry last weekend and it was extremely heavy work and it was so difficult. Later that evening I started to bleed and I went to a&e who advised me not do any heavy lifting or pulling as it could make the bleeding worse, they termed it a "threatened miscarriage". Now you can see I was extremely scared! I have been anxious and depressed since that night because this is my fourth pregnancy and no live children.
I thought enough is enough. She put me in the laundry tomorrow, weekend and two days next week when I told her not to and I just cannot do it. Nobody else is able to go in there because they haven't been shown how to but I am putting myself and my baby first now! I was asleep and my partner called the supervisor the next day and told them the situation and said I am not coming to work for a few days until it settles down or further notice and I filled out a self-certificate sick note.
Yesterday (this was when my partner called the day before) I got a call about an hour after my start time and a care worker said why am I not in the laundry, I said the situation has been explained to the supervisor and I won't be in there. She said there's nobody trained to get up and get in there and I will have to go in as they have no clothes or bedsheets, I said sorry but it really isn't my problem. I called the supervisor but she was not in so I rang the receptionist and told her to pass on the message to the other people that I won't be in work. They had plenty of time to get this sorted out when my partner called! Apparently my colleague whose a friend said nobody did go in the laundry and it got completely backlogged.
A couple of days later I got a letter saying I got a disciplinary meeting with the boss on whatever date they put and I am well and truly shocked. It is about my conduct and something I have not done which I assume is my job, right?
What on Earth is happening? Yes I did call in sick but I do have an issue going on here and I am really angry. I really need advice! Am i in the wrong here? :/
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Disciplinary at work.. Can they do this?
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Tryagain92 · 24/03/2016 07:08
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