AIBU- feel like refusing to work

[littlebell4]

Hi all. I’ve posted before about my job - I work in healthcare and travel around different schools. I’m at a different school each day, once per week.

I’ve just arrived at this school I’m at every Thursday. I’ve been recently diagnosed with an upper back problem and I have let them know multiple times I need a proper chair/desk for both my sessions and my admin.

I’ve just arrived and the 2 classrooms I usually work in both have other members of staff using the chair/desk. The senco said I can use her office for admin but that means I have nowhere for my sessions. Yet again there are people working in the classroom I usually use as well. I am currently stood in another classroom refusing to sit on a kids chair but the main desk has belongings and a coat from another member of staff so I can’t use it. I now can’t find the senco to enquire again.

I feel pressured to see a lot of children for their sessions but I am tired of being unaccommodated. I absolutely refuse to sit in another kids chair but I just have no idea what to do right now??

For today, Remove colleagues belongings and sit at the desk.

Send an email to Head and advise a suitable room, desk and chair must be available each Thursday if these are not provided you will leave as they are discriminating against you.

Just sit at the desk?

Have you had an occupational health assessment and is the equipment designated for your use?

You're far too passive.

Move the items.

Contact all the schools you go into and ask them to ensure they provide you a proper place to work each time with a suitable chair and table and explain briefly why. I'm not sure why you haven't done that already if your employer continue to just shrug.

What do your occupational health team say?

Another one saying just move the coat!

I'd just shift the stuff tbh.

Ask them to specify which room and desk/chair will be available for you every week. Anyone you find in that room when you arrive you ask to leave as the the room is booked for you. If the Senco cannot give you a suitable space then you tell them that you are going and will come back the following week when they have an appropriate room/desk/chair.

As a senco in a small school with no spare room and no little offices, I am sometimes being chucked out of my corner and chair so that external people can use it-I end up working at a tiny chair which really hurts my
back. I hate it-I have my own work to do.

Are you one of the new Mental Health workers? We have declined to host a trainee because we simply don’t have the space.

I am currently stood in another classroom refusing to sit on a kids chair but the main desk has belongings and a coat from another member of staff so I can’t use it.

This is just silly though-use your initiative and move the coat or go and speak to someone at the office. And don’t use your phone to write posts on in a classroom during the school day!!!

I'd remind the schools that you need them to provide you with an adult sized chair and desk.
And for today I'd move the things and sit there. And if challenged tell them that you'll either go because the correct equipment hasn't been provided, or stay using that chair desk.

As pp said: stop being so passive.