January 6th I got injured at work. I tore a tendon while drilling into a truck body, and drs orders are for me not to use my hand at all.
Let me preface this by saying, a few months after I joined this company, an older coworker (probably late 30s) injured his wrist, cause him to not be able to use his hand either. So for however many months, he hasn’t been doing anything. He’s been on his phone the whole day, everyday and the boss doesn’t care.
Now fast forward back to me, still injured. (Mind you, he has since quit). I’m 21 years old and they are finding anything to make me busy with one hand. I’ve scrubbed the grease off the walls in the office, I’ve been sweeping and cleaning up the shop the whole entire time. I’ve basically been demoted to janitor with one hand.
Everytime my boss sees me not cleaning, he threatens to send me home.
Today, I’m about to clean some pallets and my boss has me walk with him, where he finds any piece of trash he can on the yard for me to clean and says “I’m trying to find things for you to do, so we can keep you here”. Which I assume he’s referring to the workers comp where you only get a quarter of your pay but stay at home.
Right there I almost snapped and brought up how when the other guy was injured, he didn’t do shit for his whole healing process.
I’m very angry with this situation and am constantly threatened with being sent home. I cannot wait to leave this shitty ass place.