Hi everyone,
I know I’m late to the investing party but was wondering if I could get some advice on where to look for information on how to invest and how to determine what would be a good investment.
I believe I’m literally the first in my family to try this so I can’t really turn to anyone in my family or even friends.
Any help/advice/reading material would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Based in England. This is a long story so please bear with me and I will have to be vague to protect my identity.
I have been working in healthcare and with my company for over 4 years (not private). I fell pregnant late last year and was extremely unwell because of this. I also had a lot of stress due to things in my personal life which work know about.
I had multiple meetings about training I need to complete for 2 different things so I could contribute to the smooth continuation of services. Also around this time I had a promotion with extra responsibilities. Typically, everyone in the department has to do these trainings but it’s done 1 at a time so you have enough time to learn everything and also continue doing your day job. However, I was told I have only 6 weeks to do both of these trainings (usually it takes people months and months just to do 1), whilst also doing my day to day tasks and also learning the new jobs and responsibilities relevant to my new role. After this I would be scheduled to do work which involved the trainings I had to do.
I informed work I was pregnant, I was stressed and they were pressuring and stressing me further. I never said I wouldn’t do it. I asked why I was being treated differently and why I couldn’t do the training 1 at a time and why couldn’t I have more time like everyone else. My concerns weren’t listened to, I felt I was pushed even more after they found out I was pregnant. I felt like I was being punished for being pregnant as the pressure increased 10 fold. There was no empathy or compassion. My colleagues all knew I was stressed, they brought this up with senior management but to no avail. I have so many people in the department who knew how stressed and pressured I was, I was having mental breakdowns on the regular. Unfortunately, I had a delayed miscarriage at the beginning of this year and as soon as that happened I was dropped like a hot potato. They didn’t wanna touch me with a 10 foot pole then. The pressure and stress all vanished which means it wasn’t needed to begin with. All my colleagues in work have discussed how unnecessary the stress and pressure from work was and how do they know that that wasn’t a contributing factor to the miscarriage. I applied for a new job after the miscarriage will be starting in the next couple months. In my leavers survey I mentioned what I experienced and now I have a HR meeting coming up to discuss my claims. The longer I sit with this the more resentful I become. I feel my wellbeing was not taken into consideration and they just wanted as much out of me as possible before maternity leave.
Is there any advice? Does it sound like something could come from this (possible investigation of senior staff so hopefully this kind of this doesn’t happen to anyone else)? I have a lot of witnesses to everything that happened.
I am sorry for being so vague and there is a lot more to this that I haven’t added.
This is a long story so please bear with me and I will have to be vague to protect my identity.
I have been working in healthcare and with my company for over 4 years (not private). I fell pregnant late last year and was extremely unwell because of this. I also had a lot of stress due to things in my personal life which work know about.
I had multiple meetings about training I need to complete for 2 different things so I could contribute to the smooth continuation of services. Also around this time I had a promotion with extra responsibilities. Typically, everyone in the department has to do these trainings but it’s done 1 at a time so you have enough time to learn everything and also continue doing your day job. However, I was told I have only 6 weeks to do both of these trainings (usually it takes people months and months just to do 1), whilst also doing my day to day tasks and also learning the new jobs and responsibilities relevant to my new role. After this I would be scheduled to do work which involved the trainings I had to do.
I informed work I was pregnant, I was stressed and they were pressuring and stressing me further. I never said I wouldn’t do it. I asked why I was being treated differently and why I couldn’t do the training 1 at a time and why couldn’t I have more time like everyone else. My concerns weren’t listened to, I felt I was pushed even more after they found out I was pregnant. I felt like I was being punished for being pregnant as the pressure increased 10 fold. There was no empathy or compassion. My colleagues all knew I was stressed, they brought this up with senior management but to no avail. I have so many people in the department who knew how stressed and pressured I was, I was having mental breakdowns on the regular. Unfortunately, I had a delayed miscarriage at the beginning of this year and as soon as that happened I was dropped like a hot potato. They didn’t wanna touch me with a 10 foot pole then. The pressure and stress all vanished which means it wasn’t needed to begin with. All my colleagues in work have discussed how unnecessary the stress and pressure from work was and how do they know that that wasn’t a contributing factor to the miscarriage. I applied for a new job after the miscarriage will be starting in the next couple months. In my leavers survey I mentioned what I experienced and now I have a HR meeting coming up to discuss my claims. The longer I sit with this the more resentful I become. I feel my wellbeing was not taken into consideration and they just wanted as much out of me as possible before maternity leave.
Is there any advice? Does it sound like something could come from this (possible investigation of senior staff so hopefully this kind of this doesn’t happen to anyone else)? I have a lot of witnesses to everything that happened.
I am sorry for being so vague and there is a lot more to this that I haven’t added.