I had a Cat 1 Emergency C-Section 3 years ago. For the most part, my scar doesn’t bother me and I go about my day to day life. However, if I heavy lift something that is too heavy or heavy and awkward it makes it twinge and is sore for a couple of days. No actual issues apart from that, drs have said it’s fine.
I work in retail and when I applied for this job two years ago, I made it clear that I couldn’t do replenishment work or heavy lifting and was told neither of those things are in your job description and none of my managers team would be required to do that. All well and good.
Fast forward and the same manager who interviewed me and gave me the job (who is also my line manager) is insisting constantly taking me (and others) away from my role to replenish. Three weeks ago, I lifted a very heavy crate full of 1kg chicken thighs which amounts to about 16kg of chicken, pulled my scarring and was in some discomfort. Told my manger, she looked at me blankly as if to say I was making a fuss. The following week she asked me to do the same and I asked if it would be okay to not be taken away from my role as the soreness from the previous week had only just gone.
Her reply was “It’s only lifting some crates and boxes.” I replied that none of the crates or boxes were light and that it wasn’t in my job description to replenish anyway. She huffed off and took someone else away from their role instead.
She did it again this week. I went along with it as didn’t want to be seen to be causing a fuss but pulled a cage and done it again. I assume because I pulled it two weeks prior it’s made it tender again which has happened in the past but again, not frequently. I actually cried on shop floor because she just hadn’t listened to me and because it did hurt. One of my colleagues said enough is enough and took me to the office and said I couldn’t do replen because of XYZ and my manager was like “I don’t understand how you manage your normal
role” and looked at me like I was lying.
She made me feel like shit and like I was just making a fuss but the reality is if I do really hurt it rather than tweaking it I will end up signed off as sick.
Nothing wrong with the work I actually do in my own role, I am one of the best in the job. I like my job and have had no issues before.
My colleagues have said my manager should listen and stop putting me in that position but she just doesn’t listen at all.