Deemed!
Hi, my Name is M... I work for Canada Post, I was a letter carrier, I deliver your mail !!!
In 2005, I got injured in a hit and run truck accident at work, and sustained a permanently impaired injury. As you see, I was told that I would have to learn to do things differently ,and have to wear this brace on my arm for the rest for my life. It was very hard, I had to get my head around this for it is not easy to do things with one hand. I was told that my work place had no work for me and there never will be; I was told that I would have to go to the Crawford Institute for my labour market retry program, then I was told by them that I could be a security guard. Yes, my friends, security guard. What a laff. Is my safety not an issue? ...and that I would be making minimum wage.
Then there was a problem. They were basing it on a part time, not full time position. So then I was told that I was going to go back to work. I was on top of the world to be going back, I was going to be doing something, I was going to see my friends that I have not seen in a long time, and to have some kind of sense of mind. Then work tells me at that time that NO volume would be put upon me, they tell me that the back to work program is six weeks, and it's been a very longgggg road for not only is my wrist bad but every one forgets that I had taken the muscle of the bone in my elbow. Yes, ouch. So it makes it hard for me to hold up my arm and carrier the brace around. So through out the year my hours have gone up and down. Now the doctors say 4 hours of work a day is all that I should do.
NOW CANADA POST has said we need to have a meeting with the Back To Work Specialist and a union rep of your choice. So I go to the meeting. The Director For Canada Post sat and said how he was DEEMING me and wants my volume to go up and my hours and if it don't in two week then I am to be put on the LMR program. The next appointment is June 21st. I don't know if I am going to be able to do all of it but I am trying to do the best that I can and now I feel that the best that I can do IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Don't these people understand that I love my job, I love being outside, walking in The Sun, The Rain, and yes (lol) The Snow. These people don't see the pain or the hurt, that I see only when I go out and I see my fellow co-workers delivering the mail. I am hurt for I wish that that was me. Oh how I WISH that was me and I didn't have a injury. I feel that since day one with everything that has happened to me has been wrong. I don't remember asking for this to happen , I don't remember saying Hey, I'm over here, hit me. I never would have thought in a million years that I would be treated so badly and even labeled as Bad Injured Worker. I am so upset that this is the way injured workers get treated so it seems to me that now I am facing Pump up the Volume and Hours and Risk Being more Damaged or maybe Move on with the Labour Market Retry program.
I DON'T KNOW AND WHAT KIND OF JOB CAN A ONE HANDED PERSON DO? I NEED A JOB NOW, ANYONE WILLING TO HIRE A ONE HANDED PERSON?
Canada Post won't keep me.
My poster will say ------- I have one hand, I may be slow, but I can do the job!!!!! and try not to cry -- Can you give me a Chance?