cobain wrote:
what i've written down so far that i should bring up to the union !!!!!!!!
i'll remember more things as i go and i'll keep writing down whatever happens
June 2020
Coworker sent an email to the boss about me and my kitchen coworker, that we weren't doing our job etc. I've seen this email myself and it was full of lies. This caused the boss to decide that my kitchen coworker would get fired. He got sick leave his last month because of how the bosses treated him towards the end. When the boss talked to me about all of this, she told me he was a "bad influence" on me and that he had caused me to slack. Brought up rumors about me and him, which weren't true.
Autumn/winter 2020
Meeting with the group boss where I told her that I think it's too stressful, too much to do, tough and heavy etc, and that I have a hard time letting the stress go even when I come home after work and that it negatively affects my life. Her answer to me was that, in that case, I'll just have to plan better. She didn't say how to plan better, didn't give any other help or advice. This was the only answer I got.
Summer 2020
Worked in 34°c with face mask and face shield. In an even hotter kitchen.
Autumn/winter 2020
I work in the kitchen with another person, but they fired him around New Years. When he quit, I got more work tasks even though I was alone in the kitchen and had told them that I already think it's too much and too stressful.
Winter/spring 2021
Meeting with the bosses. Once again I bring up that it's too stressful, the other people who work in the kitchen opposite shifts from me agreed. I got the same answer again, that we need to plan better. They also told us that it's "luxurious" in the kitchen, in comparison to their job.
I get an intern, she was there for 2 days before she quit and decided she didn't want to work there due to the stress. After that, two of my nurse coworkers told me that working the kitchen is "luxurious" in comparison to what they do, and that you just need to plan. It sounds a lot like what the bosses told me and I'm wondering if the bosses have said this to them as well. Previously the nurses have told me they think my work is very tough and heavy and that they'd never work the kitchen themselves. They also almost ridiculed the intern who didn't want to work there.
Boss tells me I need to have a "rehab meeting" with her and the other boss, because I'd been away too much, that I had been away on 3 occasions in 3 months. I was sick for 4 days right before New Years, I was at home one day in February since I got side effects after the second vaccine dose (like a major cold/flu), and I was away for less than a week in March when I was sick. As of right now, we still haven't had the meeting, even though the boss told me about the meeting 2 months ago. I think it was more to scare me and to prevent me from being away more. Even though we're in the middle of a pandemic, working with risk groups, and should stay at home when we experience even minor symptoms.
I've had to work without an assault larm for a year. All the nurses have one. We don't have one in the kitchen, even though we're constantly around knives and other potentially dangerous tools. We are also alone in the kitchen/dining area/living room a lot, and without an assault larm we're very exposed to danger if anything would happen. It also means we don't have a good way of alerting for help if one of the residents fall and need urgent help. This has happened many many times. Someone falls and hurt themselves and I have been the only one around, and I've had to leave the hurt person (sometimes they're bleeding) to get help.
The nurses have been told they can't help out in the kitchen at all, some have gotten scolded when they've done it anyways. Though I have to help them a lot, several times every hour. I think it creates a "gap" between me and the nurses, and imbalance. I feel like I can't refuse to help them either, since that can lead to one of the residents getting hurt. Daily I have to keep an eye on several people, calm them, watch them so they won't get out of their wheelchairs etc even though I have so many other things I need to do and really don't have the time to help out in that way. I think it's very wrong to not get ANY help back when my work tasks pile up after helping them out.
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