Dont know where to put this but got to just have a rant so please bear with me.iv been a weight watchers leader for nearly 8 years running 5 successeful meetings a week,i am classed as self employed and pay all my own stamps and tax.
got breast cancer last june so told my manager was imediatley taken out of work,had lumpectomy,chemo and rads finished it all end of feb and was hoping to return back to work soon.Ww have changed there plan and its now called pro points,and i missed the training day as was to poorly to attend last year,during this time i had lots of letters from all my lovely members but not even a get well card or email from my work iv now put some weight on as iv not been as active after all my treatments i just dont have as much energy.guess what been advised i wouldnt want to return to work until iv lost some weight.also been told i will need to go on full training course as if new leader and go into other meetings to train alongside other leaders,some of which have trained in my meetings! im gutted as knowing i could return back to a job i loved was what kept me going throught all the horrid times,im very lucky doc said they removed all the cancer and i dont have to see them till sept.so i now need to go find another job,im claiming from w&p but feel sure that will stop very soon and i need to work.thank you for listening i feel better for just writing this down
ww,i am disgusted at the way u have been treated!u all do a great job ,needed u in my twenties but have been lithe ever since! thank u ww!i am going 2 e mail a friend of mine 2 today who works closely with ww.myself had surgery and rads soon.im ok and the happiest ive been 4 ages! sorry u havnt had the support from ww, but i will certainley make my feelings heard, lots of love alex xx
I was a Cambridge diet consultant amongst the many other things i do and did. I havent had one message of good will from them, I was beginning to jack it all in when cancer hit it just gave me a kick start. Can you try and see it as a blessing as a new start for something new and exciting to come your way instead of the same old same old.
I hope it all works out for you.
Hi WW,
I think you’ve been treated very shabbily! They should be ashamed of themselves! I’m sure that even if you have put some weight on your class members would understand why and might actually be even more inspired by seeing you return to work and taking the weight off. I’m sure there could be a more flexible way of you catching up with the new training too. Most employers are obliged to help people return to work, I know it is different for you as you are counted as self employed however I would have thought that WeightWatchers could have seen their moral duty to you. I feel so angry on your behalf! I’d like to contact them and make my views known but wouldn’t want to cause you any further distress what do you feel?
Perhaps there are other ladies with more legal knowledge who could advise you wether the law applies in your situation too, or maybe CAB?
Glad the treatment went well though and wish you luck for the future,
Julie x
hi WW
Its so sad to read how you have been treated. Macmillan did a campaign last year aimed at employers to try and explain and show that if you support people through their illness they return and cope with the impact of cancer more positively.
You need to seek advice, even if you are self employed WW still have a responsibility and I am sure they wouldn’t like the publicity of all this if it got out. I currently go to SW and was just thinking of changing to WW …not sure i will now. Do you have someone you can write to personally, who is employed by WW and not another manager who is self employed. Good luck with it all you can so do without the stress this is causing
take care rhi x
Thank you girls for all your support,i do feel very angry and had terrible day yesterday just sat about thinking about it all but its not a good place to be and iv woke up today thinking stuff em time to move on and find something new,feel iv been given a chance to change my lifestyle so gonna embrace it.i dont have any fight left in me to go into battle with ww,it chokes me a bit to just walk away but i dont want to make myself ill with the stress.just want to say thank you to this site for giving me the chance to get it off my chest! it was filling my head so much i couldnt think straight,not that i can anyway after chemo it leaves you with a head full of fluff and i cant spell guess i better try the brain training on ds.gonna focus on my family and people that really care about me.thank you so much it does help to share. x
You have been treated shabbily. Are you a member of a Trade Union?. Sadly there are a number of companies that behave like this, and most of them are the one’s with a non-unionised workforce.