I work at a warehouse style store, just not a “club” one. I got hired in March of 2020 and am approaching my 2 years with them. I enjoy the job after it being a huge switch from being in the service industry for 15 years. I enjoy the benefits and the pto and all the stuff I had no access to in my previous jobs. I've received 2 promotions in under a year. Im a hard worker. My issue is this:
I feel that I am being taken advantage of due to me being a male. The position I'm in means I am accessible to handle many different positions throughout the warehouse. If im needed to assist somewhere, then I get sent. Last year all of us assistants were told we would be rotated out to assist with pushing carts. That turned into only two of us. Myself and the other FT male assistant. He eventually got back inside while I stayed out 2 more months. So from March till Sept I was outside 40/wk, 8/day. I suffered 2 injuries in that summer, one directly related. One not but not ruled out as indirectly. Come to this past week and I am in a boot with a stress fracture due to being sent out again often. I was even sent out while limping into work (I hadn't known of the fracture yet, just knew I was having big time pain walking). Im sensing that this same thing might be approaching and I won't go through it again. I'm not incapable of the work but im no spring chicken either. I can't have work affecting me financially and mentally outside of work, again.
Looking to get medical exemptions somehow once I get reevaluated from my fracture but I know that my GM is super stingy about being accommodating outside of med leave or short term disability. Im at a loss of how to proceed. I know what I want to do. But feel that I may be setting myself up for a nonmutual exit as well.
Anyone have experience obtaining valid medical restrictions and pushing back against what appears to be favoritism or flat out discriminatory exclusion to a job (ps, they have sent out female assistants. But usually on shorter time frames and not as often like only once a shift instead of twice. They certainly sent them more often when I was out healing but once back, I became the go to right away again)