Oatcake
10-05-13, 09:03
The day has come, and I'm going for my Return To Work meeting. I feel sick, and the GAD symptoms are all over the place. However, I love teaching, and when I walked the dog past a local school yesterday morning, I found myself checking out the displays on their windows and thinking about how I'd have done a better job at it :whistles:
This meeting means facing the Head, a woman who thought that it would be fun to push me over the edge by increasing my workload, setting me impossible targets and threatening me with incapability procedures. I will have my union rep with me, who is brilliant and dealt with her when she started all this about a year ago after I first told her about my GAD. The Head hates him, and tried really hard to arrange a meeting time which she knew he wouldn't be able to attend. She has summoned someone from Human Resources at council HQ. I don't know why that's necessary. On the plus side, she's leaving at the end of this school year, so no matter what, she's now only a temporary blip, and the thought of a new start for the school really makes me hopeful for the future of the place.
I have supporting statements from Occy Health, who have suggested a very slow return to work, and said clearly that I'm still "Psychologically fragile". My GP is happy to go along with it, but says she'll gladly extend the sickness certificate if it's not working out. The occy health report said I qualified under the Equalities Act too, so I'm going to find out more about what that means.
Since I have no idea what to expect, I've drilled myself with CBT techniques, and promised myself a McDonalds afterwards if I can get through it. "Shedding for the wedding" has meant eating like a rabbit for the past few months, so I reserve the right to order every single item on their menu :winks: Please keep fingers crossed for me, everyone.
This meeting means facing the Head, a woman who thought that it would be fun to push me over the edge by increasing my workload, setting me impossible targets and threatening me with incapability procedures. I will have my union rep with me, who is brilliant and dealt with her when she started all this about a year ago after I first told her about my GAD. The Head hates him, and tried really hard to arrange a meeting time which she knew he wouldn't be able to attend. She has summoned someone from Human Resources at council HQ. I don't know why that's necessary. On the plus side, she's leaving at the end of this school year, so no matter what, she's now only a temporary blip, and the thought of a new start for the school really makes me hopeful for the future of the place.
I have supporting statements from Occy Health, who have suggested a very slow return to work, and said clearly that I'm still "Psychologically fragile". My GP is happy to go along with it, but says she'll gladly extend the sickness certificate if it's not working out. The occy health report said I qualified under the Equalities Act too, so I'm going to find out more about what that means.
Since I have no idea what to expect, I've drilled myself with CBT techniques, and promised myself a McDonalds afterwards if I can get through it. "Shedding for the wedding" has meant eating like a rabbit for the past few months, so I reserve the right to order every single item on their menu :winks: Please keep fingers crossed for me, everyone.