Mindfrosting

Custodial workers have one of the hardest and most unappreciated jobs. What they do is a vitally important job in supporting, maintaining schools, teachers and other support staff not to mention parents and relatives who attend those after school functions, such as games, meetings, band, choir, orchestra, plays, etc. Most are asked to do more than their assigned tasks. Assigned tasks? Most are assigned tasks that are nearly impossible to complete in the time given. Then they have those extras… More tasks get added and time gets taken away. What happens to most workers is that with the repetitve motion of mopping, sweeping, window washing, bleacher set ups, chair and table set ups and put aways, etc., is that they are very likely to sustain some sort of injury. 

My injury occured from multitasking: trying to complete my tasks …the hurry of getting my regular tasks done as well as extras of an event set-up (bleachers, chairs and long table set ups). Then while tossing garbage into the dumpster my shouder was injured, was torn. I have broken a bone before and this hurt worse. Now the wonderful district I worked for - to have the least expenditure had hired a go-between to L&I. I cannot get the shoulder repaired, told it’s in my mind and have been sent to independent exams (IME) which are basically doctors paid by that company to say it is in my mind. Still in pain was sent back to work, had to go home to recover, ice and pain meds, then sent back to be reinjured…again and again until I resigned. Now I am hanging in the wind with an injury that has not been repaired, no job, no income, no insurance. They are still trying to close the claim and send me forth to those IME doctors who are hired to try to close the claim.

I am thinking this must have happened to others. I am sure of it. Such a lack of honor on the part of the school districts to treat their employees like throwaways. I am beyond disappointed in them.

These are the people who educate my children. What have my children learned recently? What my children have learned is that the school district threw away their mom. They learned that managed care is a lowest of the low. They learned that when you work for someone that most likely you won’t be considered “part of the family”, but instead a thing to be tossed when broken. They learned that our school district values money over lives.

Ironically, what has happened in my opinion is that more money has been spent keeping me from proper medical care than if they had just let the doctor do his job in the first place. Pissed? Yep!