Heinrich
Active Member
As you can tell from the title of my post, I am having some issues with my SUP.
This guy has been giving me trouble for a few years now.
our center only does things by seniority when it works in their favor. Additionally, our Union representation is weak, and it is rare that filing grievances will work in your favor. In fact, they usually result in retaliatory behavior. With our current SUP's, if you so much as cough the wrong way it results in retaliatory behavior.
I am often singled out, and bullied by one of them. He yells obscenely at me, takes photos, and videos of me, and of course, writes me up for things like 'sabotage.'
The other SUPS obviously go along with it. Co workers ignore it as they are mostly anti social and non-confrontational. Our center is loose on SUPS working, and we are mostly uninformed on what is and what is not acceptable. I regularly see SUPS scanning, lifting, moving, stuff. Our center manager, and FT SUP have never once been present during our sort. So it is just us, and the PT SUPS.
This is neither here nor there, just to give you an idea about how our center is run.
So, I keep my head down, and that will work for a few months here, a few months there.
As soon as anyone riles this guy up, he targets me. He breaks in the new guys (he calls them fresh meat), and when he gets bored, back to me. I am an average worker, but I am always one of the few who are there when the dust settles and it is the night before thanksgiving, and we are literally pushing boxes down the belt because it has broken down.
Anyway,
I have been on disability maybe two times in the past year, because i have a chronic illness (protected by the americans with disabilities act), and have sort of had ongoing health issues that are becoming more relevant.
So, it became an issue in the workplace, and I felt that i needed to "disclose" this information to my SUPS.
I was treated so poorly, even during this 'disclosure.' No empathy, no sympathy, whatev. Then told a story of how he knew a guy with the same issues, and they found him dead in his car. This shows you that he understands the seriousness.
A month passes. I find myself having to continuously remind them that I am disabled. Often the response is, "no you're not,' or simply 'no.'
A few more months. Same.
Now, after switching medications, I do have some actual limitations. This does not prevent me from lifting 75 lb boxes. It does however mean that it would be easier on me, if I wasn't being bullied and overworked. I am not the new guy. I am somewhere in the middle of the ladder.
SO...
I have rights that are established by the americans with disabilities act, one of them being that if i require special accommodations, I can request them, and they MUST be given to me as long as it does not cause 'undue hardship' it does not need to be written (although it could be), it can be verbal. I thought verbal would go over easier.
Naturally, when i mentioned this, I was yelled at. I am not talking about FMLA or TAW, this is a different type of accommodation.
So periodically, when I am being taunted, I say something like, you know i have a disability right? they respond with no, or just walking away, and writing me up for something bogus. Tonight specifically I was told "you are not a lawyer." Ha.
I can report them to the EEOC, and they will send someone to evaluate the situation, see if my needs are valid (they are), and determine if discrimination is taking place.
The blatant neglect for needs with this disability could result in me having to go on leave, or a situation could even arise where I am in a coma because of it.
As mentioned earlier, any filing of anything get these guys all aggressively offensive.
So I am sort of caught in between a rock and a hard place.
I just lie in wait.
Thoughts?
Yeah yeah, follow the methods, quit, blah blah blah. I need the health insurance peeps.
This guy has been giving me trouble for a few years now.
our center only does things by seniority when it works in their favor. Additionally, our Union representation is weak, and it is rare that filing grievances will work in your favor. In fact, they usually result in retaliatory behavior. With our current SUP's, if you so much as cough the wrong way it results in retaliatory behavior.
I am often singled out, and bullied by one of them. He yells obscenely at me, takes photos, and videos of me, and of course, writes me up for things like 'sabotage.'
The other SUPS obviously go along with it. Co workers ignore it as they are mostly anti social and non-confrontational. Our center is loose on SUPS working, and we are mostly uninformed on what is and what is not acceptable. I regularly see SUPS scanning, lifting, moving, stuff. Our center manager, and FT SUP have never once been present during our sort. So it is just us, and the PT SUPS.
This is neither here nor there, just to give you an idea about how our center is run.
So, I keep my head down, and that will work for a few months here, a few months there.
As soon as anyone riles this guy up, he targets me. He breaks in the new guys (he calls them fresh meat), and when he gets bored, back to me. I am an average worker, but I am always one of the few who are there when the dust settles and it is the night before thanksgiving, and we are literally pushing boxes down the belt because it has broken down.
Anyway,
I have been on disability maybe two times in the past year, because i have a chronic illness (protected by the americans with disabilities act), and have sort of had ongoing health issues that are becoming more relevant.
So, it became an issue in the workplace, and I felt that i needed to "disclose" this information to my SUPS.
I was treated so poorly, even during this 'disclosure.' No empathy, no sympathy, whatev. Then told a story of how he knew a guy with the same issues, and they found him dead in his car. This shows you that he understands the seriousness.
A month passes. I find myself having to continuously remind them that I am disabled. Often the response is, "no you're not,' or simply 'no.'
A few more months. Same.
Now, after switching medications, I do have some actual limitations. This does not prevent me from lifting 75 lb boxes. It does however mean that it would be easier on me, if I wasn't being bullied and overworked. I am not the new guy. I am somewhere in the middle of the ladder.
SO...
I have rights that are established by the americans with disabilities act, one of them being that if i require special accommodations, I can request them, and they MUST be given to me as long as it does not cause 'undue hardship' it does not need to be written (although it could be), it can be verbal. I thought verbal would go over easier.
Naturally, when i mentioned this, I was yelled at. I am not talking about FMLA or TAW, this is a different type of accommodation.
So periodically, when I am being taunted, I say something like, you know i have a disability right? they respond with no, or just walking away, and writing me up for something bogus. Tonight specifically I was told "you are not a lawyer." Ha.
I can report them to the EEOC, and they will send someone to evaluate the situation, see if my needs are valid (they are), and determine if discrimination is taking place.
The blatant neglect for needs with this disability could result in me having to go on leave, or a situation could even arise where I am in a coma because of it.
As mentioned earlier, any filing of anything get these guys all aggressively offensive.
So I am sort of caught in between a rock and a hard place.
I just lie in wait.
Thoughts?
Yeah yeah, follow the methods, quit, blah blah blah. I need the health insurance peeps.