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Spitfire1Senior Contributor04 Sept 2026, 10:57 pm AEST

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I don't know? Im laying here in bed asking myself is my job really worth the worry I'm going through now. I've not told anyone this before now during 1 shift I was working around 6 weeks ago my employer came into a clients home to attend to her I was cleaning the house she saw me marched up to me I still didn't understand what it was over I think it was because I wrote her name in a progress note on another client the day before and physically assaulted me in the arm I cried out e...that hurt it was in my arm I had my flu shot day before, the clients were in the loungeroom as well as the other support worker client asked what's going on? E... Replied it's a private matter between C.....and myself. I know she definately went beyond the professional boundaries and what's there to guarantee that she won't do this again to me. I seem to attract bad luck even without trying and definitely get walked all over time after time. I know I could and should do something about this incident but then again I have a clear way out of the job but in the back of my mind I keep thinking I have less than a year to go before I get the aged pension. I have in the past in another job had a bullying meeting when I resigned and their compensation was they utilised modules for employees to do on workplace bullying. I just don't know anymore!!!

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BAOModerator05 Sept 2026, 2:47 pm AEST

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I hope you find a way through this @Spitfire1 . It certainly sounds like a very stressful time.

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Misty7Senior Contributor05 Sept 2026, 3:56 pm AEST

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Hi @Spitfire1

So sorry that you have undergone this kind of treatment at your age. This is completely unnaceptable. I would report this to police immediately. The longer you stay there the more you are putting yourself in harms way. I would feel unsafe and it's more likely to cause you harm mentally and make your mental health worse. If they are doing this to you they are probably doing it to other people. They need to be reported but go to the police first. Please stand up for yourself. Put your foot down hard.No one should put their hands on you without your consent.This is abuse. You deserve to feel safe.

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Spitfire1Senior Contributor06 Sept 2026, 10:00 pm AEST

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Thanks everyone for the love , support and encouragement you have shown towards me. I need to get together the facts ie: date and time before I even consider to do something, there have been quite a few events in the past few weeks I had to deal with, one being my online therapist who's been my godsend in now in hospital with pnaemonia(can't spell it). I know I can talk to my job provider about it again I need details about it. At the moment the employer is staying in the background I know she could always be around the corner ready to cast her web said the spider to the fly, tommorrow I'll go back in my diary to find the date of my last flu shot as it happened the day after, will go on my gov look for it that way too.

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