Got injured at work had to make a claim and now i feel like I’m getting bullied by my managers
Hey ladies so i just wanted some advice on what’s been going on with me.
So i recently got hurt at work and ever since i reported it it’s been HELL! I was walking and not looking where i was going (because i know the store and i saw before i started walking that a person wasn’t in my way) and was looking behind me and ran into a box that has kitchen trash can inside (I’m short but the box was past my knees almost to my hips but pretty big and heavy) so i ran into it and hit my knee and foot but when it was impact i only felt my knees pain so i told my manager but i told her i got my knee and that i was okay. It stinger a little bit but i was okay. So the next day I’m feeling pain in my leg and food so i go to my schools nurse (community college) she told me that it was okay since i was walking and that if it confuses to hurt after icing then to go see a doctor but that since i got hurt at work that i needed to tell my manager again. So i did and once i did she told me to tell my other manager and that i didn’t say my foot was hurting and i didn’t but only because i didn’t feel it in that time. So i go upstairs and all 4 of my managers are there basically Interrogating saying things like “so your foot and your knee huts but yesterday it was just your foot and now it’s your knee” “ you didn’t complain about it before” “i don’t believe a nurse would tell you that you don’t need to automatically go to a doctor”🙄 made me so uncomfortable, as if they didn’t believe me. So everyday there has been stressful. Yesterday i was at work with one manager and one who’s is like above me so I’ll call people like her veterans (someone who isn’t a manger but can do overrides and has been there for years) so while I’m there i can to take a break, my doctors wrote on my report papers that i gave to one of my managers that. I was at my register ringing out people but sitting on a stool, so the store is closed so i decided to take a break (i have too since my foot and knee is messed up) and she’s like “but you’ve been sitting all day” and i told her i haven’t because every time a customer comes i have to get up and ring their stiff out and bag it which causes me to get up and bend over and squat which is also on my report papers that I’m supposed to do “OCCASIONALLY”. Another example is when i work i can take as many breaks as i want. So i went to lunch which was 30 mins and had my leg up but since i was standing all day i took an extra 4 mins which i can. So a friend of mine who is also my coworker tells me “ one of the veterans told her to go tell the manager that i was taking too long on my break” when the whole time i can take longer if i want. And my friend was like yea i know she’s just trying to snitch🙄 so today. I was going to one of the fest to order something for this couple and on my way there, there was a lot stuff around so the male of the couple i was with almost fell, so since not supposed to bend over or squat i asked my coworker who was walking that way if she could help me pick these things up because they were over the weight limit i can lift for my doctors orders but she walked away and the man was like no don’t try to pick it up you’ll hurt yourself worse(he saw me limping) so i guess my coworker (she’s new) went and called their person who who’s desk i was at and she called the phone at the desk and was like okay just pick it up and i said okay but i was going to wait until afterwards since
He kicked it out the way and i still needed help to get all the things up. So she comes to the desk and see it on the floor and picks it up and tells me “okay well i said pick it up we all work here so
It’s not just me who need to clean you work here too so do it next time” and walks away so the mans wife says “that wasn’t nice and very unprofessional for her to say that to you in front of customers especially since she knows your injured, i should feel the manager” and her husband goes “ oh no it’s okay I’ll just call corporate and complain” and tells me “don’t let her talk to you like that” i felt so humiliated i went to the bathroom, didn’t tell anybody and cried!! I wanted to just tell my manger that I’m going home! But i called my friend and she told me it’s okay just tell the insurance company when they call for my check up to see how I’m doing. Before i left today i talked to my manager and she told me that she didn’t see on my paper where it said i had to take breaks, weight limits. Or climbing latters and i shower her where and she felt stupid it’s like did you even look at it?! And a week ago i got into an argument with a coworker that
Lasted literally 2 mins while the store was closed because I’m working on a fucked up knee and foot and organizing a whole side of the store on my own while i can barely walk (she never helps, all the other coworkers warned me about her). So i canoe to work the next afternoon and i have 4 coworker come up to me and tell me that they had a whole morning meeting about the arguments last night and that the manager was asking the coworkers what happened but never asked me or the woman i had the argument with. The two main People it was with! But won’t have a meeting with the managers and spread the word like “hey guys you know just such and such was hurt today and had to go to urgent care for tripping over a box so let’s make sure we watch where we’re going and also make sure things are put away so there will be no more accidents” or even saying “hey guys we got a report back from such and such a doctor and she can’t do certain things such as lift, push, pull weight limited things or squat down so much or even if you see her sitting on a stool or taking longer breaks, so if she asked for your help with a latter or lift something or help for anything at all, you know why. No none of that but will have a Morning meeting about some drama. Then tells me I’m telling all my coworkers about it like it’s a bad thing ! Hell yea it’s a bad thing and i shouldn’t have to explain myself to anybody on why i need help at all because that’s not my job my managers should have mad it clear what’s going on especially since a claim had to be made! Sorry for the book but I’ve been literally crying about this and i really need your opinions on what i should. Weather it’s legally or anything at all? I live in Cleveland Ohio btw😊
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