You don't really have my back though do you?
two hard things happened yesterday. well, one hard thing and one wrong thing.
the hard thing was that i was ordered at mid-morning to work an entire 10 hour shift only on my 2nd week back to work. usually i had been working 5-6 hour shifts 3 times a day with the tuesday and thursday off to recover. but yesterday I was told mid-morning by the line manager that "I SHOULD be back to full time work within a period of 4 weeks and therefore it will stand me in good stead to start doing a long day as soon as possible"
emphasis on that paragraph is the 'should'.
and as it's only the end of the second week i think we're jumping the gun a bit.
But i didn't have to scrub for the 2 cases of the theatre i was in, instead i had to run for them, which is great when you have the staff ("It's ok Dee, you can stay all shift, we have enough staff") but in the afternoon when three members of staff went home it left us a bit short. well, not 'short short' but short enough for someone who hadn't worked fir a full shift yet and usually spent her afternoons either reading or sleeping on her bed.
Come half past 2 i was finished.
and i was rostered on to work til 6pm.
I did make it to the end of the day but I didn't really speak for the last 3 hours because I was so tired. Changing back into my work clothes took the best part of 5-20 minutes and i can't remember driving home.
That's the hard thing.
Here's the wrong thing.
And I want people's opinions on this please.
As with any employer they are entitled to keep records of their employee's sick leave. This can be used for a variety of legal purposes ranging from disciplinary issues (too much sick leave) to references for future jobs ("How has Ms. X been regarding her sick leave?").
I was called into the office of the line manager yesterday morning to confirm the sick leave I'd taken in recovering from my SRS. The for was your basic 'write in boxes' style and under the heading 'REASON' someone had written "Transgender Surgery".
Now some of you might think 'Yeah, so?'.
But i'm very upset at this. And i'm not the only one.
The Data Protection Act 2001 adopted by the NHS indicates that ALL patient details be treated as 100% confidential. I am an employee of the NHS therefore I think it is wrong that anyone should record the reason for my sick leave in such a hurtful way.
It should just read "Surgery".
I mean does anyone else have "Hysterectomy" written in their box? No, it just reads "Surgery", or it should do.
Anyone can now read that and know what surgery I've had. And although virtually everyone in the place knows i'm trans I don't want a flashing neon sign over my head telling it (or a pink triangle?).
What really scares me is that if I ever went for another job and that employer asked for my sick details over the previous 2 years they will read i had "Transgender Surgery".
And that leaves me open to being denied the job through trans-phobic discrimination - which exists just as surely as racism and ageism does theses days - and there's not a lot i can do about it.
The acting line manager's reaction to my objection to having that written on my official sick note was "I didn't write it".
Granted she didn't, it was her predecessor but that's not really the right reaction to have.
And now i feel, once again, a little upset with the attitude a lot of the staff (managers included) take towards people like me. It's lassis-faire in the least, intentional in the worst.
This is an example of toleration.
I have friends in work of course, but I recognise that the managers don't know how to handle people like me and don't have an interest in finding out either.
You think i'm being overly sensitive about this?
Or do you think that the NHS Trust is in breach of its own confidentiality policy?
By the way, everyone loved my chocolate mouse last night.
the hard thing was that i was ordered at mid-morning to work an entire 10 hour shift only on my 2nd week back to work. usually i had been working 5-6 hour shifts 3 times a day with the tuesday and thursday off to recover. but yesterday I was told mid-morning by the line manager that "I SHOULD be back to full time work within a period of 4 weeks and therefore it will stand me in good stead to start doing a long day as soon as possible"
emphasis on that paragraph is the 'should'.
and as it's only the end of the second week i think we're jumping the gun a bit.
But i didn't have to scrub for the 2 cases of the theatre i was in, instead i had to run for them, which is great when you have the staff ("It's ok Dee, you can stay all shift, we have enough staff") but in the afternoon when three members of staff went home it left us a bit short. well, not 'short short' but short enough for someone who hadn't worked fir a full shift yet and usually spent her afternoons either reading or sleeping on her bed.
Come half past 2 i was finished.
and i was rostered on to work til 6pm.
I did make it to the end of the day but I didn't really speak for the last 3 hours because I was so tired. Changing back into my work clothes took the best part of 5-20 minutes and i can't remember driving home.
That's the hard thing.
Here's the wrong thing.
And I want people's opinions on this please.
As with any employer they are entitled to keep records of their employee's sick leave. This can be used for a variety of legal purposes ranging from disciplinary issues (too much sick leave) to references for future jobs ("How has Ms. X been regarding her sick leave?").
I was called into the office of the line manager yesterday morning to confirm the sick leave I'd taken in recovering from my SRS. The for was your basic 'write in boxes' style and under the heading 'REASON' someone had written "Transgender Surgery".
Now some of you might think 'Yeah, so?'.
But i'm very upset at this. And i'm not the only one.
The Data Protection Act 2001 adopted by the NHS indicates that ALL patient details be treated as 100% confidential. I am an employee of the NHS therefore I think it is wrong that anyone should record the reason for my sick leave in such a hurtful way.
It should just read "Surgery".
I mean does anyone else have "Hysterectomy" written in their box? No, it just reads "Surgery", or it should do.
Anyone can now read that and know what surgery I've had. And although virtually everyone in the place knows i'm trans I don't want a flashing neon sign over my head telling it (or a pink triangle?).
What really scares me is that if I ever went for another job and that employer asked for my sick details over the previous 2 years they will read i had "Transgender Surgery".
And that leaves me open to being denied the job through trans-phobic discrimination - which exists just as surely as racism and ageism does theses days - and there's not a lot i can do about it.
The acting line manager's reaction to my objection to having that written on my official sick note was "I didn't write it".
Granted she didn't, it was her predecessor but that's not really the right reaction to have.
And now i feel, once again, a little upset with the attitude a lot of the staff (managers included) take towards people like me. It's lassis-faire in the least, intentional in the worst.
This is an example of toleration.
I have friends in work of course, but I recognise that the managers don't know how to handle people like me and don't have an interest in finding out either.
You think i'm being overly sensitive about this?
Or do you think that the NHS Trust is in breach of its own confidentiality policy?
By the way, everyone loved my chocolate mouse last night.