Massive work issue.. Really need advice. Just walked out.

[Mum2oneds]

OK so brief background. 19 weeks pregnant. High risk for blood clots due to family history and waiting on consultation appointment.
Had a risk assessment which said no standing or sitting for more than two hours in a row. And If in kitchen must work in pairs due to the heat and how busy it is.. All ok

So today was put down for till for two hours. Then in kitchen after my break with a colleague.
Then someone called in sick. So I was told by my supervisor that I had to go back on till for two hours. I said I'm not allowed. She said we'll yoi can't do kitchen on own. I said I'm afraid that's not my problem it's in my risk assessment. My manager is off. All higher management in a meeting.
In the end she rang a high manager who said I had no Choice it's either stand on a till. Sit in a grocery till or shelf tidy.. Which again isn't enough circulation and my veins in legs are already flaring up.
But he would come and discuss it and phoned the company legal person and they said as I had a break in between I could stand again.. But that break was sitting down. Again no circulation.
I was then told I had no choice as that's all there was to offer
So I walked out and currently Sat outside in tears.
They know my risks. I also just returned today from a week poorly in which I have had no return to work interview as no one to do it.. And they know the reason I was off was pregnant related.

Could they of made me do what they said even tho I said it would put me at risk..

So you sat for two hours on till, then sat down for break which was entirely your choice and nothing to do with the supervisor. So why can you not now stand at a till or work shelves where you will be standing and moving. What's the issue here?

I think you have misunderstood what the risk assessment means. As you were given a break after two hours then you should have been able to go back to sitting at a till for a further two hours.

if you were that bothered about the risk of sitting for more than two hours in a row, then you would have gone for a walk in your break rather than sitting through it.

And this is why people struggle to take pregnancy issues seriously

I think you’ve misunderstood the risk assessment. It’s ‘in a row’ rather than ‘total in a day.’ So if you’d been on the till, sitting then you need to have a break where you move a bit after that, then you can go back to sitting.

In your situation I’d be finding ways to keep moving, so every fifteen or twenty mins stand up, do some leg bends etc. Even if you’re sitting at a till there are ways you can do this, just make it look like you e dropped something and are getting it back. Make sure your breaks are spent at least partly moving.
Your employer aren’t being unreasonable- they are offering you different work types etc.

You need to go back in and apologise - say you’d misunderstood the risk assessment and didn’t think. By walking off the job you’re risking disciplinary.

So you put yourself over the 2 hours and somehow this is works fault?
Nope. Your own fault. You chose to sit during your break.
You cannot now have a tantrum because you want to work in the kitchen but for staffing issues, this is no longer an option.
They are trying to accommodate your risk assessment and making reasonable adjustments. But you are not following it.

I'm sorry but you're in the wrong here.

You chose to continue sitting for your break which meant you exceeded the two hour limit. I just can't understand why, knowing you should keep moving, you chose to sit down on your break and not go for a walk, even if it meant eating a sandwich whilst walking along (if a lunch break).

You can't choose to comply with these recommendations when you want and ignore them when it suits you, that's not how it works.

She won’t be back.

We all know this type of person.

High drama, lazy, looking for the easy option, thinks the world revolves around them.

Heaven help her children.

I hope you went back to work.

OP's other posts are of the same ilk....

Christ on a bike

Suck it up

Over dramatic, you're pregnant, not dying.

Ahh yes you do seem to disappear when nobody agrees with you

I knew the username rings a bell.

As you've previously admitted to purposely booking GP appointments (pregnancy and non-pregnancy-related) for during work hours to spite a manager, and are planning on taking more sick leave to allow you to finish early before Christmas, I think you have an utter nerve.

Sorry but you are being unreasonable.

YABVU

I rather hope for your employer's sake that you don't go back, then they can dismiss you for gross breach of contract or whatever the correct term is. You obviously don't want to actually do any work, just use your pregnancy as an excuse to be unable to do anything.

Hang dr's appointment during work. That is shocking, I can understand when you work full time, but 16 hours a week? That really does take the piss.

So they are already short staffed and you come up with this drama ?
You don't deserve that job.

Sorry didn't explain properly. It should be no more than two hours in a 5 hour shift. Of which I have letter from docs for.
I had been standing for the two hours.
In my break I Sat down to eat and drink.

I've had the same argument time and time again with them. I went to Cab drop in at the library . And they printed me some info. And said that work are in fact breaking the law by blatantly ignoring what has been agreed.

I since had a call from a very apologetic high up manager who said it should never of happened and that it's not my fault we're short staffed. And that I would be paid for the whole day.. To be honest that didn't bother me.
With the shelf tidy. You have to stay on one small section of food dept which you're not allowed to walk off. It's literally stand and tidy which doesn't get the circulation going.
If we're on the till in our own dept. You are only allowed off to change station. If we need anything we're not allowed to just wander. Have to ask permission to even go to the toilet.

It never used to be like it but unfortunately some people wondered off alot and therefore everyother peanalised.

No more than two hours standing or sitting in a 5hr shift. So what are you supposed to do the other 3hrs? lie down? Surely as long as you have regular breaks where you can move around then then you are ok?

I don’t understand, 2hrs sitting & 2hrs standing...do you float for the other hour??

You can't stand or you can't sit? Or you just don't want to work?

Surely it’s no more than two hours standing, two hours sitting in a five hour period, so you could have sat on till for two hours.

Reading your other threads, you wish to leave anyway and this seems like you’re just finding excuses not to work. What job did you expect them to ask you to fo? I’m sure you’re not expected to walk for three hours out of every five or lie down for three hours out of every five.

If you’re physically incapable of doing the job, it’s not thr companies fault and you’d have to be signed off sick, but you’re not physically incapable are you? You just don’t want to do it.

It's about keeping circulation going.and not standing in the same place or sitting too long. So therefore if I was in kitchen it's lots of movement so is fine.. But then that got changed. I politely explained it that it was in my risk assessment. Which also is in writing from docs and in midwife notes. And they ignored it

Ive been in the job for 17 years and never had this issue with my last pregnancy but since then I have had 2 blood clots I'm not overweight and wear the support stockings as given by the hospital..

But at the end of the day the higher up manager has rang to say THEY are at fault. Not me.. And I will be having a meeting first thing with him to discuss it as he's not happy with how the company dealt with it.

And as for the lunch. I'm pretty sure it would be almost impossible to walk around. And eat a lasagne and a cup of tea..