Signed off yet work are contacting me

[ThePerkyCoralPoet]

I’m signed off. Work are emailing me about things that I said I would hand over before the end of my employment. Meaning in my time. Manager has emailed and text me. I’m actually seeing it as borderline harassing me now.

Apparently, according to this thread. I can’t😂

Of course you can.

If it's your personal number, you can block whoever you like. No one has said anything otherwise?

Honestly, I find your behaviour and attitude bizarre, and I'm not surprised relations have broken down with your school.

I hope you recover your mental health and can find a career that better suits you in the New Year.

If there are files on a staff member's computer that aren't on a network home drive or otherwise retrievable by your IT staff, you have fucked up big time and it's a matter of when, not if, you irretrievably lose data about children. Which, BTW, is an ICO-notifiable data breach.

Your school's failure to run their IT properly isn't your ill staff's problem.

You can. It's your personal phone, you own it insofaras we "own" any device with a Google or Apple operating system on it these days, so you can do what you like with it.

You're off sick with work-induced stress and doing work will make it worse. Them expecting you to work is as unreasonable as expecting Usain Bolt to run a race with a broken ankle.

It’s a locked shared area. Basically “the department” computer in the locked office.

Yes, but I then mentioned the school policy in my later comment to you and then clarified to say that it was actually LA policy.

In fact, you'll find that the GTCS considers such behaviour to be bullying.

So they can absolutely master key their way into the office and get what they need off that computer? Not your problem.

Oh yeah that’s rife in my school. I remember spending weeks crying when I first started because of bullies. Literally staff talking loudly about certain things in the staff room or making personal comments. Genuinely, I know people think I’m an a hole for going off sick. But this school tore me down to the point I literally became broken. I have to have therapy because of all the incidents/ counts of bullying that have gone on and been dismissed. So at this point I could really go on any more.

Literally🥲

I’m confused OP. In your last string you said you were hit in the stomach with a heavy object (transpired to be a book) while heavily pregnant. Not on purpose or targeted but in your general direction,

So is this now a second book, or was it your head and not your stomach?

We're not in Scotland.

The majority of us don't work in schools governed by Local Authorities anymore.

I'm sorry but most of what you're saying regarding how schools work is either well out of date or not applicable.

I'm sorry but the only thing that happened was being hit by a book 😳 and you're leaving? You do realise that in teaching you may have ti deal with children with SEND, behavioural difficulties, victims of trauma, etc? Sounds like you aren't cut out from the start.
Think you need a job where you work alone and don't deal with people of any kind.

No I was using an example. I’m not pregnant. In that instance I was saying if I was they’d have to handle it. So dismissing it just because it was the face doesn’t make it okay or acceptable. It just further enables it.

To clarify. I’ve worked at schools worse than this. It’s not the behaviour. It’s always the leadership. I can take it all. But if leadership aren’t handling it. Then it’s unacceptable

It shouldn't be, but things are definitely getting worse - at least in the state schools in Central Scotland. There's been a definite deterioration over the years.

I'll not out myself by giving specifics, but I did some supply early this year and some of the behaviour that I saw was feral.

I stayed to the end of term, but I'll not be going back.

I’ve never ever been to my gp to sign me off. I genuinely never ever have. But this time I just felt broken and exhausted

Agreed. You need a strong SLT.

Okay but as a permanent staff member (which I was employed as and had been there for some years) you’d expect things to be better than that. Not only that but supply usually, unfortunately by nature l, involves children, even the ones who are typically well behaved. To become feral.

@ThePerkyCoralPoet

It sounds like you've been working in a really shit school.

Just send them what they want and then wash your hands of them. You can then focus your energies solely on feeling better without needing to worry about being contacted by them.

I do think you're behaving in a way that's slightly irrational judging from your comments on here, but I can also appreciate that it's the consequence of what you've been through. You need a good rest and time away from the stress to gather yourself and recover so that you can move forward. I'm sorry you've had such a difficult time.

Not all schools are like this and I hope that if you still love teaching, you'll find somewhere that will suit you better once you have recovered. I left state education nearly a decade ago and have been having a lovely time in the independent sector ever since. I highly recommend it. No real behaviour issues and you can just teach.

Moving to an independent school too. To clarify. I love teaching. I even really loved my fantastic students. It’s just leadership let me down and made me feel like what k was saying was nonsense. I remember really struggling with some toxicity when I first started. Then it got better as I learned to just be nice in the face of unkind behaviour and kill em with kindness and it worked. But I felt that over time people were unnecessarily being targeted and investigated and put under all sorts of capability plans. I eventually just broke. I really did try. I promise. I just couldn’t seem to recover from it this time. I took my fair share of bad behaviour. This one just left me a bit lost for words at the lack of support or understand given.

Are you at death's door that you can't answer their questions? If not, quite pathetic really.

She's off sick with work-induced stress. It's very unreasonable for them to contact her, given that they are the reason she's off.

I wasn’t dismissing it but trying to get clarity on the situation as it certainly didn’t seem like an example on your last string. You said it wasn’t the behaviour but the leadership.

There is no point posting here. You don’t want advise and argue if people don’t completely agree with you.

If you are off with work induced stress I suggest you stop posting, arguing and talking about it continually and try to move on. This can’t be helping or make it better as a number of people have said you clearly aren’t in a good place right now and obsessively talking about it won’t help.

Spend your energy on things that help your mental well being.