Failure to make reasonable adjustments/threats

jobbingmusician

I do apologise. My inner grammar nazi simply INSISTED on being allowed out to play.

Belles1979

shortcrust wrote: »

Surely a reasonable adjustment would be to have a diary with these tasks listed that gets checked every day.

Unfortunately, as well as being highly infrequent, they are also random and sporadic in nature. We couldn't quite easily go 12 months without having to do it.

As I mentioned before, it genuinely isn't as simple as using a diary for me. I used an example of my blood tests earlier. I was due one about 6 weeks ago. I see the form and think "I must get that done", then instantly forget. I've sat with a form physically in front of me all day propped on my computer and still taken weeks to go (⊙＿⊙).

My managers are supposed to support me prioritise my workload, which was put in a stress risk management plan 7 months ago. Has it happened - has it heck, so they aren't going to look at a diary with me!

Other than wave a magic wand to make my illnesses disappear, as they've told me to do, I can't help but feel like they're deliberately trying to be difficult to try and force me out.

Belles1979

jobbingmusician wrote: »

What I don't understand is why the employer can't ask a colleague to facilitate the OP doing this job. OP, are you in an office all by yourself? If not, it seems to me totally reasonable that someone is detailed to remind you to do the job AND STAY WITH YOU UNTIL YOU START IT each day.

There's 6 of us doing the same job. The argument against it is that it is counterproductive as two of us are spending the time doing the same thing. Instead, they could just do it, and I take one of their standard files in reciprocation. Believe me, I'd have the tougher end of the deal!
My employer has made it so difficult, I now get panicky just thinking about it.

paddedjohn

Op, I'd just plod on and get on with my job, if they come to you in the future and say you have forgotten to perform this task then that's when you remind them of your requests to pass it on.

theoretica

How closely managed is your workplace? In my work I could just turn to a colleague and ask if they could do something for me or do something for them. If your colleagues know how much trouble this causes you, it is a pity one of them hasn't just taken it on. But maybe you aren't allowed to adjust things like that.

TBagpuss

I think if the employer is so adamant that you should do this task, then asking a colleague to do it, even if that would normally be acceptable, might backfire, as the employer could then argue that you have disobeyed a direct instruction.

However, even if you can't ask a colleague to take it on, might it be possible to ask a colleague to remind you? Or to check in with you to ask whether (a) it needs to be done and (b) you have done it?

How time sensitive is it? Would it work / help if you set yourself a reminder (either weekly, fortnightly or monthly) to check whether it needed to be done, and to then do it?

I don't know whether there are any aps which might help - I know we have a software system at work which we use for compliance based issues, and in that, if you have a task reminder it keeps nagging you until you do it, so you get an e-mail to say it's due, then you will get further e-mails until you've actually gone into the system and completed the task.

I appreciate that it s a different scenario but wonder whether you might see whether there are any apps which would keep reminding you until you went in and made a note / checked a bx hat said 'I have completed this task, don't remind me again until [regular weekly / monthly reminder]

I think if your employer is absolutely adamant that you have to do this task then it may be worth you seeing if you can adjust your daily routine, so that the first thing you do every day when you get into work is to check to see if Sporadic Task is required (and if it is, then set yourself further reminders, on your own phone or in your diary system, even if that means you get a reminder every hour, if that's what it takes.

From the outside, and based on what you say, it does sound as though it would be reasonable to take that task off you and let you take on something different so no-one else is overburdened, but obviously if you can, you want to find a workable solution so you can keep your job, not lose it and they have to try to win at tribunal, and find other work.

gettingtheresometime

would an old fashioned paper check list help?


So instead of an electronic notification (which I have to be honest I could dismiss and then forget to do the task) every morning you see what your must do tasks are and then check at lunch hour and before you go home that they've been done. Even if you don't have to do that particular task that day/week/month its on the list and not ticked off until its done.

marliepanda

Paper calendar? Write it on.

Wouldnt 'disappear' like an electronic notification.