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Jul. 22nd, 2019 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI called my local mental health services last week and had an assessment yesterday. It was nice to talk to someone about everything, but she told me more or less what I expected - that wait times for any treatment will be more or less what I've experienced before, which in recent times was about 9 months. That's not super helpful when I'm feeling incredibly terrified something's going to go wrong pretty much all the time, and when I'll probably be expected to work those 9 months in order to earn any money. So I'm more or less back to square one, just sort of needing to look for a new job and hoping I get one to see if a change in employment environment helps me out at all, or finding a way to cope better with my current job and routine, with just a vague feeling that I should be getting treatment somewhere down the line eventually at least.
I also called ACAS, an employment support helpline, as suggested by the Citizens Advice Bureau to double-check the information I have about Statutory Sick Pay. They confirmed what I've been told already - that if I meet the criteria for SSP, which I'm pretty sure I do, then I should be getting it. Which means I now just need to talk to my employer about it.
I'm also seeking an extension to my sick note, because I think an extra week off would do me good. Apparently I only need to call the doctors tomorrow to get an extension. But it still means I need to call my manager to let him know I'll be off another week, and he'll need to cover another week, and when I do that I may as well, at that point, ask him about sick pay. So I'm not really excited to make that call. The alternative is to not ask about sick pay and just a) accept they're doing something shady, b) accept they're doing that shady thing to me, and c) accept that at the end of July my pay will be £200 for the month, instead of £800 for the month. None of those feel like good options.
I feel like my parents are disappointed in me in general, and that's no fun either. They don't just trust me. And that hurts.
I also called ACAS, an employment support helpline, as suggested by the Citizens Advice Bureau to double-check the information I have about Statutory Sick Pay. They confirmed what I've been told already - that if I meet the criteria for SSP, which I'm pretty sure I do, then I should be getting it. Which means I now just need to talk to my employer about it.
I'm also seeking an extension to my sick note, because I think an extra week off would do me good. Apparently I only need to call the doctors tomorrow to get an extension. But it still means I need to call my manager to let him know I'll be off another week, and he'll need to cover another week, and when I do that I may as well, at that point, ask him about sick pay. So I'm not really excited to make that call. The alternative is to not ask about sick pay and just a) accept they're doing something shady, b) accept they're doing that shady thing to me, and c) accept that at the end of July my pay will be £200 for the month, instead of £800 for the month. None of those feel like good options.
I feel like my parents are disappointed in me in general, and that's no fun either. They don't just trust me. And that hurts.
