I had a dream about my workplace which so far only reflects the current real situation.
I see the car of my boss arriving at school, waiting for the gate to open and I continue working. I scare because she walked in behind me saying “It was open”. Meaning my fault. She continued to say that someone intruded the property and that this was my failure.
When I woke up from this dream I thought that I should involve the union to ask if they can come with me to my next probationary interview.
The facts in real life are that the time frame in which I have to accomplish a variety of tasks as a cleaner is too short. I don’t only have evidence from former workplaces, actually the same tasks are assigned to contractors for a different part of the property only half the size of the area assigned to me. The contractor pays the cleaner or cleaners for 4 hours or 2 hours each if they work as team with a second cleaner.
For the cleaning tasks in my employment I have 3 hours and 15 minutes. That’s less than half of the time for almost double the area. In each probationary interview I tell them that this time frame is too short for what they expect me to do. Their reply is always the same, that employees before me had no problems with this time frame. I heard and know a different story.
For a few days I came to peace and to bear it with being the scapegoat in thinking that being dependent on Jobseeker’s Allowance is worse. Finding a new job at my age is difficult. But now I think I should involve the union and ask for help.
Side note: I already come to work half an hour earlier on my behalf. And if days have been too messy for me to accomplish the tasks I can do in 3 hours and 45 minutes, I go in the early hours before opening to finish what was left to do. A colleague of mine left for the same reason being blamed for unreasonable expectations. And so did a colleague before.
That this even comes up in my dreams indicates for me that I should do something about this burden.
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