Can I also just say, I did not have breast cancer, I had ongoing breast problems since the birth of my son 6 years ago and I underwent testing, At first I was just going to have a total duct removal on both breasts, I had my first one done in Jan, however in the mean time I tested positive to BRCA1&2 so when I went to have my other surgery in feb, it was decided that the majority of both breasts were to be removed.
Total duct removal was a simple operation, so I thought Id only need 1 week off either side of the surgeries, but clearly it was a much bigger health scare than initially thought. I was back at work 3 weeks after the mastectomy (not complete removal) with my drain still in! so its not that i'm not reliable (far from it) or a difficult or lazy employee, Im not, It was just a bigger more complicated operations then initially intended.
I loathe how some MN make people think just because they needed time off for medical reasons, it then means they are a difficult employee. I dont feel the need to elaborate on the reasons on why the GP has signed me off with acute stress. surely that is reason enough?
I need to mentally process what's been bulldozed in my life, before I feel I can tell others, but yesterday that choice got took away from me, it was easier for me to tell my friends than I thought it would be however, but still I was not mentally prepared for it. so I apologised for being cryptic, it isn't top secret, Im just not really too. once I have put in all in the right boxes in my head, hopefully it will become less stressful if that makes sense
The thing is with stress, it make little things seem bigger than they are, work annoyed me massively because they sort of forced me to do something I was not prepared for, and also hurt me, for what of a better word. I felt hurt by their complete lack of professionalism, insensitivity, lack of consideration. Im leaving, and I think my course of action will be to email head office with my notice explaining why I am leaving, what had happened and show all of the screen shots. That way I've left, but notified HO about what's going on in my branch.
Can I just say tho, work colleague did not have her leave cancelled, no one had, she isn't even part of my team, another colleague got my hours. when I say me being off work affected no staff, it really did not (well it did as a colleague got more hours which she wanted) , the only people who would have stressed over it would have been the management team, as they are the one doing the rota, so the extra overtime they might have given me, would have went to someone else, but again overtime above your contracted hours isn't compulsory.