I'll try and keep it brief. I just need to vent.
I work as a paraprofessional (fancy teachers aide) for kids with severe autism and disabilities. This is the most emotionally rewarding job I've ever had.
It's not uncommon to get hurt at my job. Every day a student is likely intentionally/unintentionally to harm a staff member. It's happened to myself and my coworkers dozens of times.
There are trainings called NCI (Nonviolent Crisis Intervention) to help prevent this. You really need this training in this field of work. Unfortunately my employer never wanted to pay to get me certified. So I've worked for the last several years at this job without it. It's gone from, yeah we'll get you trained to no, we don't want to pay for it, to it's up for discussion.
Without that training, well it ultimately led to me getting a severe concussion that put me out of work for 5 months. I had weeks of physical therapy and counseling to get me back to where I was. It was utter hell. I messed up relationships with numerous friends and family because my concussion had literally changed me. I was angry, depressed, suicidal, everything. Headaches, motion sickness, couldnt drive. This concussion just messed me up so bad.
Holidays had passed during this time, no Christmas gift, no Valentines card, no teacher appreciation gifts, nothing.
I was given %50 of my original pay every 2 weeks which before that already wasn't anything. And that only lasted for about 3 months before my employers insurance decided they didn't want to pay anymore. So the next 2 months I was without a paycheck. Fortunately I had enough in savings to get me by.
I was finally able to return to work after 5 months of utter hell. My coworkers were happy to see me, the students were extremely excited. But nothing from Administration or anyone else up top. Not a single word was said to me from them.
They said cya next year on the last day of school though.
Come the end of the school year HR told us we would get bonuses our yearly bonuses. I wait a few weeks, no bonus, wait a few more weeks, no bonus but accounting informs me I will be getting one and not to worry. Time comes when everyone else gets theirs and I still haven't gotten mine. I reach out to Administration and they straight up tell me I won't be getting a bonus. But I MIGHT get a gift card.
It's been 3 weeks since they told me I was going to get my gift card to wherever.
This has taught me that even though you've found your dream job, worked hard, have great relationships, you're still just a number to your employer. And they couldn't give a rats crap about you. Especially when you've been through living hell because they wanted to save money.
TL DR: got hurt at work, employer could of help prevent it. They didn't. Cost me 5 months of my life in utter physical and emotional hell. My pay was cut. And I wasn't given my yearly bonus I was promised.