Hi everyone.
Today is the start of my second trimester, mood wise i’ve found I’m standing up more for myself! normally i just get on with it… put up and shut up.
Background… i’m in a senior leadership position and my job is intense. We operate at full capacity 24/7 365 days and i work over my hours - i need to be available even when am leave. Needless to say stress comes with job. I also lost a key member of my team at the start of covid and couldn’t replace them, so i’ve also had to so their role.
I work very well under stress and have a high threshold, however since November 2021 i’ve had enough and feel work take advantage. I voiced my concerns about the additional stress (others were allowed to recruit however i was not, apparently i was capable of doing two roles! And everything else)
I also changed line management in November and my new manager just doesn’t get the role, she add more onto my work load and then piggy backs on it. She also sides with whoever is the senior colleague - she will swap sides if it’s a more senior person that me and she doesn’t have my back.
After seven years of no sick leave i went on leave with stress. She then did an occupational health referral.
Now this is my question… in her referral she wrote that the referral was for workplace stress, she noted i has been up and down prior to the absence and i had stated this was because i felt undervalued and had discussed a pay rise. She then wrote i was also now experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.
I took offence at the pay rise remark - this is not the cause of stress and the discussion was at the company’s request. I feel she is trying to make out the job isn’t stressful and i’m all about money.
I’m extremely upset and annoyed at - unplanned pregnancy. How dare she! It was not planned however she could of wrote something different. Amy is also now pregnant would of done the trick. Again i feel she is trying to make out it’s personal and not the company.
Sorry for the long post. But am i being over sensitive?