DESTROYED IN COURT
0471 TRIBUNAL - EVENTS IN 1999/2000
[Another part of my submission to the Tribunal]
After Roland Kaye became dean, and when the previous Dean chose not to stand for re-election, and ultimately left the OU in Spring 1999, I thought that my problems had been resolved. It is clear - in retrospect however – that even then the most acute medical symptoms, which I experienced, largely arose - in the first instance - from the severe panic attacks brought on by the unacceptable levels of workload to which I was exposed; but which were concealed by OUBS admin staff. The formal diagnosis of serious cardiac problems (a blocked left anterior descending cardiac artery) eventually came in 2001.
31. Initially having put the earlier events out of my mind, when Roland Kaye took over the deanship in Spring 1999, I thought that my problems had been resolved. For the next two years - as a loyal OU academic - I chose to forget about the earlier problems, even though my workload once more grew to unacceptably high levels. Indeed, I was happy to work alongside the Dean in setting up various Internet projects with the rest of the university; even though the fact that I was never involved by him in the subsequent developments should have given me pause for thought. Thus, although my June 1999 email to Alan Lawton reported that I had begun to show the symptoms of angina, at that time I still believed that the reduced stress levels would remain manageable.
32. The unacceptably high level of my then workload - at more than double the OU average level (even though my work on B851 was still at a relatively low level) - was subsequently quantified on the official Workload Planning Form of September 2000. However, when the computerised OU system would not accept this since it was too high, OUBS admin resolved the problem by arbitrarily reducing the total to 100% and changing all the other figures pro-rata; thus effectively concealing my predicament from the OU. As usual, I coped with the problem by not taking leave!
33. The key email - which indicated that the workload (and stress) had returned - was that of 24 October 2000 (not 7 November 1999 as the original typo would suggest). It was a warning to the new Dean (Roland Kaye) of further problems ahead. hen the previous Dean chose not to stand for re-election, and ultimately left the OU, and Roland Kaye took over the deanship, in Spring 1999, I thought that my problems had been resolved. It is clear - in retrospect however – that even then the most acute medical symptoms, which I experienced, largely arose - in the first instance - from the severe panic attacks brought on by the unacceptable levels of workload to which I was exposed; but which were concealed by OUBS admin staff. The formal diagnosis of serious cardiac problems (a blocked left anterior descending cardiac artery) eventually came in 2001.
31. Initially having put the earlier events out of my mind, when Roland Kaye took over the deanship in Spring 1999, I thought that my problems had been resolved. For the next two years - as a loyal OU academic - I chose to forget about the earlier problems, even though my workload once more grew to unacceptably high levels. Indeed, I was happy to work alongside the Dean in setting up various Internet projects with the rest of the university; even though the fact that I was never involved by him in the subsequent developments should have given me pause for thought. Thus, although my June 1999 email to Alan Lawton reported that I had begun to show the symptoms of angina, at that time I still believed that the reduced stress levels would remain manageable.
32. The unacceptably high level of my then workload - at more than double the OU average level (even though my work on B851 was still at a relatively low level) - was subsequently quantified on the official Workload Planning Form of September 2000. However, when the computerised OU system would not accept this since it was too high, OUBS admin resolved the problem by arbitrarily reducing the total to 100% and changing all the other figures pro-rata; thus effectively concealing my predicament from the OU. As usual, I coped with the problem by not taking leave!
33. The key email - which indicated that the workload (and stress) had returned - was that of 24 October 2000 (not 7 November 1999 as the original typo would suggest). It was a warning to the new Dean (Roland Kaye) of further problems ahead.
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