A distressed worker imploding under Iain Duncan Smith’s reign of terror at the DWP sends us a message of solidarity
A DWP
WORKER UNDER THE CONDEM JACKBOOT WRITES
Via Same Difference 7th October 2013
Hi,
I work for the DWP.
I am going through a divorce caused by my depression at what I am doing each day.
I am in a written warning for being off sick despite Atos saying on my OHS (Occupational Health) that I need time and less focus on my targets.
My wife just can’t take anymore.
I can’t actually believe that I am working for these people – that I am partially to blame and part of what is being done to innocent people.
I feel like a piece of shit and can see no way out.
I have worked for DWP since I left school 15 years ago and until two years ago I got a letter every year for having no sick time.
Since then, I have had a total of four weeks off – each time signed off by my GP with work-related stress, depression and anxiety and now; if I have more than 5 more days between now and next August, I will be considered for dismissal.
So many of us are ourselves becoming ill with what is happening but they want to use any excuse to get rid of us.Your readers are not without support from a lot of us: we are in this together.
We all know we are easily replaced by outsourcing companies and we know that they won’t care.
So many of us could have gone to better paid jobs in the private sector but we took pride in helping our customers who are often so vulnerable.
Now the pressure is unbearable.
We know it’s going to get much worse as this government push ahead with plans that colleagues who worked through the Thatcher years say even she didn’t even consider.
All we can
do – your readers and us, alike – is hang in in there.
