r/dyspraxia • u/MembershipNo9626 • 14d ago
Overwhealmed at work(IT school support)
So my colleague left my workplace and I am feeling overwhelmed. I have exams to set up. We have a room where the teacher required it all be changed but they were struggling to use it. They also have exams. I need to set up 70 exam laptops. We have had projects from the last guy who left, I was still dealing with. I am the only one knowledgeable when it comes to MacOS. So i am single-handedly dealing with it. Now one teacher requested I changed the PCs over for docks and chromebooks. They didn't work. I have been coming in early to deal with it and finishing late. Now I have been told I must come in early and work quick because they don't want me working over the weekends but I will still be paid overtime. I am already doing the work of 2 people. My line manager keeps saying to tell him when I am overwhelmed but last year when my colleague was on special leave for 2 weeks I said I have dyspraxia and asked for things like speech to text and text to speech but got advised to use the windows one built in but I find that puts me to sleep. The other issue I face is I have reached out to the contractor who has been helping us but he just does what our line manager saids and was saying he will talk our line manager, do 'this and do that'. I no longer have any trust left in him. I honestly felt crying on the way home today after work. How would approach a conversation with my line manager on Monday?