PT role & feeling stressed

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I work 25 hours per week in an office and it’s always full on. We’ve now been asked to do minutes of the meeting which I find hard, but doable. Some of the meeting don’t start until 1.30/2and can finish at 3.30pm. As I work until 2.30pm I’m hoping they don’t ask me to do any of these.

I do have chronic fatigue syndrome, am I obliged to let work know? I’d much rather not, and keep it private.

If you are requested to do meeting minutes, remind them of your daily finish time and ask if you can start work on the minutes and finish them the following day so that you can leave at your agreed time. Could that work?

you aren't obliged by law to disclose a disability but if you choose to, it means you'll be protected legally against discrimination. It also enables you to request Reasonable Adjustment/s

Wait are supposed to attend the meeting and take notes? If so then you might be able to come in later to make up for staying later.

Do you usually not attend the meeting? I'd just ask who will take over when you leave?

I'd just remind them you finish at 2.30 and need to leave then so if the meeting goes on beyond then someone will need to take over the minutes

How would that work?! So everyone stops the meeting and resumes in the morning?!

can the meeting be recorded?

alternatively, just tell them you cant take minutes of meetings that run longer than your finish time

How many of you are there that do your role and do they work later? Is your 2.30pm finish time an official finish time for you?

We use a fixed template for the minutes and keep the files in a shared location. You fill it in as the meeting progresses, which means you are done when the meeting is done. If someone would need to leave early or take an urgent call (we provide 24/7 on call service for the clients who pay for it) then it's easy for someone else to take over. That person can simply pick up when the other left off. It's very efficient. Had never seen such a system before I joined this company, but I can highly recommend it.

I can recommend learning to type blind, if you don't already, but most of my coworkers don't.

Nobody has asked you to do the minutes of the late running meetings so not sure why you're feeling stressed. If asked, explain you leave at 1430.

Agreed, apologies I got myself confused with the start times and the end times.

So in cases where the meetings don't end until an hour after the OPs finish time, then someone else would need to be the minute taker for those, with the OP doing the mornings. And they ought to consider if there are meetings that the OP needs to be involved in, then they need to schedule those earlier in the day.