I'm feeling sorry for myself today.
Apr 27, 2014
Back into life.
Oh that's right.... I'm back working bitches. Have been since Nov 1st. Funny how it's a job right next to Coles.... but this place is 100% better. I walk & move constantly in this job. I take my painkiller & off I work. Strange how Coles could not find a job like that there isnt it? I can do an 8hr shift, walking the whole time...and still be ok the next day.
Where do I work? Baker's Delight..... and I'm damn good at my job. I'm happier, treated so much better & despite being there only 6 months I'm moving on up & being put in charge more & more....now tell me that would have happened at Coles. Yeah right.
So now I'm walking a minimum of 30,000 steps a day, running when I can (or not suffering shin splints or a VMO injury) and starting some strength training. All on my own. All without Coles breathing down my neck & accusing me of being a liar. Dr is ok with my fitness level...he's more than impressed with the 39kg I've lost & very supportive of my fasting every 2nd day. He's kinda more relaxed about the fact that I know what is best for me in regards to what I can & can't do.... without Coles breathing down his neck as well. Strange how everyone is happier away from that place & their way of trying to catch you out.
Anyway...100000000% happier (yeah I know there is no such thing) and feeling great about all I can do even while still injured.
Aug 6, 2013
Walking AGAIN?
So I'd love to stop having to walk so much. Simple as that. From the moment I wake up I have to s start walking, either via actual walking or just stepping in place. That's just to get the ability to move a little. Then to not have to take a painkiller I MUST keep going. If I dare sit down for more than a few minutes then I start being in pain all over again. To the point I then need to take a painkiller again, something I was avoiding by walking.
Do I enjoy spending my life walking all day? Hell no. I'd rather be working or being able to do housework. Wow I'd love to do housework.
Yet I'm punished for doing the only thing I've found that helps. How? By being told my injury was only a strain (despite scans showing a lot more) and that I should not be in pain at all. Huh!
How is that possible? I walk all damn day to try to stay out of enough pain so I don't have to take a painkiller I'm actually addicted to and I'm told I'm pain free by a Dr who is paid to say that?
By the time I get to bed at about midnight my back is screaming at me. Sleeping is then almost impossible and by the time I do fall asleep it's around 2am or so. Day starts at about 6am. Start walking. Repeat daily.
So what job can I get that allows constant moving (walking) no lifting and makes sure I'm alert enough after not enough sleep? Yeah find me that job & then decide I got time to look for one before you decide to stop payments for am injury your company caused.
In punished for doing it by the book the whole time.
Strain my ass..... it's a protruding disc on 2 discs. Read a scan and report.
Sep 20, 2012
Irrelevant bullshit
Sep 8, 2012
Coles want to play dirty?
So my EX employer wants to play dirty by taking my very 2nd post on here & then quoting it, but not quoting fully & changing some word around. Just so they can win a case by making me look bad for enjoying my HOLIDAY pay that I was having at the time? Let me show you what THEY quoted.
At the moment I am on paid leave from work. I love it, I am at the end of week 3 & I am not sure I want to return. My job is not glamorous, nor is it mind thrilling….I am a checkout chick. Service Assistant is the ‘official’ term but checkout chick is more what it feels like.
I work 3 nights a week, for 5 hours each time. Yeah so 15 hours a week is not a lot, but it is enough to get buy. With my son having to be cared for (more about that another time) & my depression, it’s not that easy to even do the 15 hours however I do struggle on.
I love the getting out of the house bit about work, the earn more money part…. but I can’t stand working there. I would rather jump off the Westgate Bridge half the time rather than turn up. I would rather still work at Luna Park then this job…. at least there I was respected & liked.
Now the question before me is this. I can either go back to work in just over a weeks time, go back to rude customers & a boss who really does not like me OR I can still do the same job just get a transfer closer and work with new people OR I can totally quit my job, hope to god one day I can still get a job again, and stay home to be a full time carer.
Ok so that's what they quoted on this case. Problem is that they actually left off a bit & changed the 2nd & 3rd sentence to suit themselves & also stated that it had a date of 7th Oct 2009 on there..... there is in fact NO date at all on that post & this is what I actually wrote (as you can see for yourself.
At the moment I am on paid leave from work. It took me a year to save enough leave to take 4 weeks straight off work, I love it. I am at the end of week 3 & I am not sure I want to return. My job is not glamorous, nor is it mind thrilling….I am a checkout chick. Service Assistant is the ‘official’ term but checkout chick is more what it feels like.
I work 3 nights a week, for 5 hours each time. Yeah so 15 hours a week is not a lot, but it is enough to get buy. With my son having to be cared for (more about that another time) & my depression, it’s not that easy to even do the 15 hours however I do struggle on.
I love the getting out of the house bit about work, the earn more money part…. but I can’t stand working there. I would rather jump off the Westgate Bridge half the time rather than turn up. I would rather still work at Luna Park then this job…. at least there I was respected & liked.
Now the question before me is this. I can either go back to work in just over a weeks time, go back to rude customers & a boss who really does not like me OR I can still do the same job just get a transfer closer and work with new people OR I can totally quit my job, hope to god one day I can still get a job again, and stay home to be a full time carer.
What am I going to decide? I have looked constantly for 3 weeks for a new job, even applied at ALDI (I don’t meet the requirements to sit down on the job they say) but I can’t get another job at all.
Now take a look at the green sections of both quotes & tell me what is wrong with MY original post & their "quote" of my post. Not only did they take It took me a year to save enough leave to take 4 weeks straight off work, away but they placed the I love it part on the 3rd sentence & added a comma to the end of that in order to make it LOOK like I was saying it about that one. Now if they want to try to trap me with some post about holidays I'd earnt for a whole year then they should perhaps quote it WITHOUT making up things. They also left off the part where I'd been looking for another job the ENTIRE time I'd been on HOLIDAYS.
Now I'm sure that kinda comes under fraud on their part, does it not? It's sad when someone can't say that they love being able to take 4 weeks off in a row because they actually acquired enough holiday pay to do so..... isn't that why it's there? To take holidays?
Now Coles can either play nice, not that they have yet because so far I've been sent back to work with a Return To Work plan that was not signed by me & I didn't know existed ( a breach of some workcover laws I suppose) but also then had the gall to say I had breached the plan (the one I didn't know existed) and made me pay for it by refusing to pay me like they had to.
They decided to follow this blog through Facebook I assume & must have either added me as a friend to get to it, or had someone I thought was a friend show them the link. Never mind that the truth will ALWAYS come out......about them. I've done NOTHING wrong the entire time I've worked for them, nor the entire time I've been injured. Ruined my life they did & now they want to blame it on me & other factors????? Luna Park injury? Really? I was off ONE day with a pulled muscle.... went back & no scans were needed....even went back to doing the same job I had. Rode my pushbike to work EVERY DAY..... strange how I can' do that one now. I was active, I was ok. Till Coles. Till I got hurt.
They want to blame anyone, blame Melissa. Cause I was no longer one of her "fave" people I got taken off express, put on a main register for 5 hours straight & not rotated to the other side at all.... not once. What did they expect would happen.... when you do something repetitive for 5 hours a day 3 days a week it's bound to do something to some part of your body..... guess it just happened to be my back. Strange that I was scanning let to right..... and it's my right side that always hurts the most. RSI peeps..... look up the word. You fucked my life up, not me, not Luna Park, not my social life (of which now there is NONE) YOU.... just YOU.
Use this post against me, I bet you will love it. That's ok...at least there is a date on this one...... unlike the date you guys MADE UP on the other one.... 7th Oct really? Strange how I went back on the 12th Oct....how is it a week between the 7th & 12th?
BTW I was born in 1975 (as you know) it's now 2012 (as you know) that makes me 37....not 38 (you can't count) it's NOT 2013....