Ranting about pain. Sorry

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Ok, Sorry about this journals. But I just need to rant. For those that don't know I work for a retail Target store. And because of my injury the only place I can work is as a Cashier. When I don't' have customers, I'm supposed to site on a Chair due to doctors orders. Which says that I need to sit every 30 min. Of course, my job doesn't give a darn about it. I can barley last 15 minutes without any pain and sometimes sitting down hurts. And my job knows this. So what do they do. THEY SCHEDULING ME DURING THE BUSIEST TIMES DURING THE FREAKING WEEKENDS! EVERY SINGLE WEEK! Now I know that sometimes a weekend will ok and it's not that bad. But every day I work, I leave in PAIN! A Lot of pain. And sometimes I would be hurting soo much I would be grabbing the side of something soo hard that I've broke some of my fingernails in half. Which happened today as well. I've even had to by one of those grabbing mechanical grippers elders us when they can't grab since I can't bend over. And yes. My job knows about it. WELL today I was hurting soo much I was shaking from the pain. And of course no one dared to try to help me. It would only be human.
   Today I saw the new schedule for the upcoming week and I saw that they decided to schedual me for 2 8 hours shifts. 2 problem with that. 1. they have one of them during the rush hour again on the weekend. And 2. They have been scheduling me for 4- 5 1/2 hour shifts and I can barley make it through any of them.
   But that's not all. I can't take aspirin or stuff like that. I have been taking some super strong crap. Right now I'm taking medication for nerve damage. And even then I'm still experiencing soo much pain. But I do feel like I took a spin on the teacup ride, multiple times, with someone that just tries to spin it as fast as they can. So I can't take it while at work. So I can only do what I can. I take some off the shelf "Bayer Back and body" pain medication. And it barely helps.

I feel like I"m getting to the end of my rope. I have tried contacting lawyers and sadly no one has responded back. I feel like I"m about to break soon. That I will pass out at work from the pain. That I'm going to keep suffering all of my life only because no one gives a flying F@#$ about me. Only to keep me to be used as a pack mule for the rest of my life. And even with a broken leg, they keep working me till there's nothing left of me. Just to be treat as if I was nothing at all.

I'm scared
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MatthiasRat's avatar
These are violations of Target corporate policy.  I used to work at Target and know.  If HR isn't going to do anything for you take it over their heads.  There should be posters in the breakroom describing your rights as a Target employee.  I don't know how far up the chain of command you've taken this.  But document your requests and all replies to them (if any).  Learn the policies, and force vicious compliance with them if necessary, and always, document, document, document!  It's about the only way you can protect yourself when your HR team won't do anything for you.

I hope and pray that things start working out for you on all fronts soon.

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