I'm planning on quitting my part time care job after just 4 weeks. I worked in a care home for 4 years before I fell pregnant and developed a disability of my own. 5 years later and with the support of a partner at home I thought I would try my hand at part time work. There was a domiciliary care job just yards from the house. I explained to the client, who is also the employer, that I have my own condition to work around and I would only accept extra hours if I was well.
In the last 4 weeks I feel like I have been completely ignored and abused. They slammed me from week one with extra hours and kept changing the rota behind my back, multiple times I was to work extra hours with no notice. I wasn't physically capable of the hours they wanted me to work and it set my health back a lot. I made this clear on week 1, week 2, and week 3.
Here we are on week 4 and they have ignored all previous conversations rota'd me in for shifts around the clock including early morning, early afternoon, late afternoon and a night. And today I wake up to a text asking me to cover another shift. What should have been a relatively easy job has left me with stress, anxiety and adequacy issues.
The client makes an extremely poor manager, there is no confidentiality, zero professionalism, payroll is out sourced to an accountancy company. I can't even keep track of hours worked as they change so much. I feel bad, my client is quite understaffed, her husband is unwell and she just had to visit he hospital this week (and failed to inform me when I showed up an empty house). I can't quit without feeling like a terrible person… but this job is running me into the ground and I can't live like this. Is it any wonder this industry can't keep staff?!