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Post by Mouse on Aug 21, 2008 9:18:25 GMT
I have to complete forms for my new job and because it is with a local council they seem to need to know everything right down to the gnat's knicker elastic.
Also what a faddle.. I have to provide an original birth certificate.. but cannot find mine so have to order one of these.
Also I have to complete the medical pre-assessment but on the form there's nowhere to declare my ADHD although I have put that I am taking methylphenidate in the 'are you taking any drugs?' section.
It is a slight concern that I will be rejected on the basis of this medical pre-assessment but I sincerely hope not because if that was the case I wouldn't go down without a fight!
My Dad reckons that the bureacracy will get to me and I will find the apparently petty rulings and jobsworths all get to me. I'm not so sure and to be honest I'd never considered that. I am a good girl and work within the rules though I can sniff jobsworth stupidity at 1000 yards.
It makes me wonder whether ADHDers are extra sensitive to and less accepting of rules that don't make sense. Plus there are times when I wonder whether theres a vestigial remnant of ODD hanging around from my childhood!
Oh well, confused myself so now off to have a final look in the garage before I order a new birth certificate. Wonder how difficult that will be. Easy enough for a con-merchant no doubt but beset with difficulties for the honest person.
Hells bells - I'm in a cynical and tetchy mood today... think it must be the form filling that is getting to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2008 19:11:46 GMT
I have found form filling v difficult, had to fill in my incapacity and DLA forms, I found that because I have never worked none of it applied to me, so spent most of the form writing N/A throughout and only filled in a small section wiv as much info as wud fit now am left wondering whethre it was enough and worried that they will indeed now cut my income support. It was so hard to fill in it took me months, same with the DLA which went in late, funnily enough my mother and aunt have the same problem, form filling seems to be so intimidating and worrying for us we put it off til the last minute, is that an ADHD thing?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 9:54:57 GMT
I'm with you on the hating forms front..
Firstly try to see if your dad could actually fill them in for you?
Secondly do you think its wise to mention the meds? I'm not sure i would, naughty i know, but i think it may be better discussed later on??
Birth certs are easily ordered, i had to get one recently for a job too. I'm adopted so had to go to a specific place, but just phone the office where you were registered & they will send you one cheaply. The on-line services selling bc's are much dearer. Best of luck xx
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Post by Mouse on Sept 3, 2008 23:10:24 GMT
Just re-read my post and can see that I really was uptight and all defensive about having to complete the forms. I always always find them stressful, but I managed okay. I'd already told them about the adhd at the interview so that wasn't my worry in respect of the council - more a case of the agency that was health checking /scoring me and concern over whether they fully understand adhd. They rang and asked me questions over the phone and the questioner did say that I seemed to know quite a bit about it, was managing the condition and so on and probably knew more about it than her.
I started work this week and I'm really enjoying it - though after a day of training I just feel like going to sleep.
Can understand your concern Asha, about whether you've given enough information.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2008 10:33:20 GMT
I had, but unfortunately because of lack of national insurance contributions I dont qualify, so instead I will continue to get income support, so long as i continue to send in medical certificates and after a year I get a premium or something. This was explained to me over the phone, but not very well, but apparently I had nothing to worry about, until monday wen they hadnt issued me with any money and wen i phoned i got the vaguest explaination, sayin my med certificate had run out, i said it doesnt run out til Oct 14th and i got well its something like that but not that reason then, i mean incompetant much? I'm now dreading having to send certificates in every three months (althou it may mean i actually see my doctor as often as i need unlike now, wen i wait til absolutely desperate) hadrather bad experience of doctors over the years even thou this one is the most wonderful woman that negative association thing is something im finding v hard to get over! In my mind im wasting their time, even wen i found the lump in my breast it felt like an over reaction visitting them!!! I think it stems from wen Daniel was little i called out doctor one night it had bin jus over a year since my stroke and i was havin really blindin headaches, the doc told me they were tension headaches and berated me for wastin her time, shortly after daniel developed breathing problems and despite bein admitted to hospital i was told by the same doctor that i was out of her catchment area and she beratted me for yewt again wastin her time, then more recent the las doc i had told me the stroke happened 15 years ago i wasnt disabled and i needed to get over it! I mean i remember cryin all the way home. this doc is ell known for her bedside manor, she is attacked almost weekly becoz of it, her name is dr critchley and she is known as dr bitchly, lol, i can laugh now, but back then it affected me so bad, thas a problem i havewiv the forms too, i feel like a fraud, i play my disability down and even i dont realise how badly it affects me, its only through others eyes that i know, and the ADHD complicates the whole matter, god im goin on, i cant remember wat this threads about now o yeah forms, HATE THEM! and alot of the time cant fill them in at all, will avoid doin it even if it costs me money, thas not a gd enough incentive, dont know an incentive that wud b good enough, i think ive missed out on a lot due to my inability to do them. Actually ive jusrealised sommink, my bf recommended this place, caio and he said, ' you jus do these surveys ad u can make a bit of money, ' and i cant do it, he dont get it and i cudnt explain it, i can now ;D
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Post by roland on Sept 6, 2008 12:37:32 GMT
Hi Mouse,
How did you find your job? I'm asking because I want to look for a job because I need a stable income rather than the dribs and drabs I get from my business, and it's been years since I looked for work here (I lived in America for a while).
Also, I've never worked anywhere longer than 18 months and I've had a wide variety of jobs with the result that I've got a very strange CV. So I'm thinking of declaring my adhd up front and not hiding it as in the past.
Did you find your job through an agency?
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