Are these reasonable adjustments?
Hi,
I want to ask for reasonable adjustments at work and would like some opinions on whether they are indeed reasonable.
I have ADHD and unfortunately as a consequence, feel like I've ended up with a bit of a target on my back. Despite asking for help before, I think it's time to try and get this made official.
The adjustments I want to ask for -
- consistency of joblists - specifically asking for exactly what the manager expects
For example, sometimes I can be given a joblist saying "tidy the toy area"
For me, I need to know how in depth they want this tidy to be. I'm very thorough so I will face up, top up, sweep, check all signage etc and take a while to do this. Whereas another neurotypical member of staff will just face up and do the bear minimum. Often I will get pulled up on taking to long on a task but I wasn't told how thorough they expected it to be and how long it was expected to take. So it would really help me to have a task given worded more like "quick tidy of the toy area, no more than half an hour please" or "thorough tidy of the toy area. Please top up, face up, sweep. Can take up to 2 hours".
- going hand in hand with the first one - timed tasks
Being given a time limit for tasks if the manager feels it is time sensitive and being checked up on doing progress, not just told at the end of the day that I took too long to do everything.
For example - "sweep whole shopfloor, up to one hour please"
Time blindness is part of my ADHD and if not given a time frame that is expected then how do I know what to work to?
And also if I'm 2 hours into a task and the manager already feels it's taking too long, I need them to come and tell me as I do not perceive the passage of time in the same way. But they don't come and tell me until the end of the day or sometimes later, that they expected it to take less time and now they're pissed off at me.
- feedback - both good and bad to be given in a weekly 1 to 1 with manager.
In the past, negative feedback has been basically bottled up for a later date and then I have been blindsided by it by my manager. I walk around on eggshells alot as I'm not sure if I'm doing what they want or not.
I think weekly 1 to 1s would really help me. I can find out what I'm doing well which would improve my confidence but also what I'm doing badly so I can try to sort straight away
- ability to ask for help with certain tasks and it not be brought up as a negative later -
I struggle with starting some tasks and sometimes all I need is for someone else to start the task with me and then I can get going.
When I have sought out this type of help before, it has then been brought back up as a negative later on, saying that I'm incapable of working independently. This is not true at all. Sometimes I just need a bit of help and I don't want to be chastised for that.
- on top of the weekly feedback, to ask for more processing time and someone to take notes in any feedback meeting -
I have often been blindsided and pulled into meetings or just pulled aside on the shopfloor to talk about what I'm not doing right
In the moment I can't process quick enough and answer questions as well as I could do. I often have answers for everything being asked but because I can't come out with them in the moment, or if I can't process a form quick enough before they want me to sign it, it leaves opportunity for me to be taken advantage of basically.
I have a record of conversation form where I did actually answer all the questions and had talked about my ADHD...then I was forced to sign the form and didn't have enough time to process what my manager had written. I saw it weeks later and they hadn't written half the stuff I had said and where I had talked about my ADHD, they had just written "mental health". I need a note taker in a meeting, any meeting and I need extra time to be able to read the meeting notes, process them and then sign if I am happy with it
Please can I have some opinions on whether you think these are reasonable adjustments
Thanks in advance