I will try to keep it short. I was off just under a year with a severe illness and have been back for around 7 months. My status has changed as I am now considered to be disabled.
Anyway, I’ve worked really hard to try and reassert myself back. I’ve asked for very few support needs. Just a phased return when I came back and some equipment (which they made me pay towards). I’ve received positive feedback on my performance too.
Since back they’ve been moving on and off multiple projects. It’s really stressful, they bring me in when it’s really hard and then move me off to the next hard thing once I start to make some progress. I’m often not getting breaks, in back to back meetings and I’m feeling exhausted. I also have to ‘take’ a lot of rudeness and being dismissed/not listened to etc.
I’m not sleeping well and scared that I might become unwell again. They don’t care, I raised the fact not getting breaks and meetings full on with them and they gave me more work!
Many others in the department have been signed off with stress and it’s always brushed aside as people not being able to hack it. I don’t know what to do or what rights I have. I don’t want to be a bother but I also don’t want to become sick again. The rest of the organisation is not like this, it’s this specific department.
Does anyone have any advice? I’d love an internal move away from the toxic environment but our company doesn’t have a policy for that.