Handling illness

 

As I type this apart from having to wait until the battery in the Chromebook charged back up as I kind of drained it earlier in the day, it's the season of the great wind up as the grump attempts to move the clocks all a hour ahead as British Summer Time (B.S.T.) starts Sunday.

I just alter my watches as the chromebook looks after itself and given I can't tell the time, I've always used other ways when out of knowing what the time is.

I was reading on one site a piece regarding how an individual who volunteers for free their time was approached on the way to work with the message that "words were said against them" as they'd missed some training sessions due to severe illness and being told everyone else just plows on regardless as they have to be responsible.

Well few can deny that obviously if you take a role you need to understand that others are counting on you performing it but a situation where people are doing tasks that include being responsible for others when being so ill as to be physically sick is the working definition of an unsafe working environment that puts everyone at risk.

That way of handling such issues is also distinctly unprofessional as an individual should be invited to discuss  any aspect of their role including any health issues and support should be explored rather the subject of whispering campaigns by others.

Understandably the individual has now resigned so they have to find someone else and finding volunteers isn't that easy.

Given I had issues with some for having periods of ill health and taken calls from ironically people in Mental Health charities about lack of support, denial of breaks and the like it doesn't surprise me and the generally negative and condescending approaches people take towards people with disabilities either.

Ableism is rife in my experience.