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LeeAnne N

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08 Mar 2020, 08:27

The truth about FMCG CCMA AND DISCOVERY HEALTH AND LIFE GROUP RISK

So this started in 2013 i found employment at Smollan Unilever Field Sales nominated employer company of the year 2019 as a Field manager managing the area of Pretoria that includes Spar and Pnp and clicks etc and managing staff and sales in the area , I was also given the honour of doing the key account Spar and doing all new listings managing KVI lines promotions planograms and also doing displays etc ...so I really exeled at this and had my 27 merchandisers and taught them all i could , I won certificate after certificate and sales awards for my area i had a regional manager called Carlos De Lima still up to today i regard him as the best Manager ever and a divisional manager called Marlene du Preez who at that point in time was the first woman in such a large male dominated industry that made it to Devisional manager and I really looked up to her to get this job i had u went through tests and checks and advanced driving and also extensive management,sales and product training i at that point in time was part of the cosmetics team ...it was allot of pressure but I thrived and did well ....then one good day after having a teambuilding session just after i was diagnosed with bipolar and depression and anxiety and dislexia ...and spending my first time in Bell street hospital for treatment ..I recieved this call and it was Marlene du Preez she told me that I am an embarrassment on how i dress and that i have big breasts and should dress accordingly ..the team building event included a yoga session and I dressed casual she also said i looked atrouches in my uniform ...I was devastated but being who i am I tried harder...I changed who i was to conform to her norms ...This weighed gravely on me and really started braking me down ...so then during my reports i wrote she started braking me down and after a report rep**** that her 7 year old son at that point in time could Wright better reports then me in regards to the reporting i did on Spar key accounts...so I ended up in psychiatric ward again ...not long after i was called in for a meeting and striped of my possition as DC controller ..in this meeting i asked her after notifying HR with al the doctors reports etc about my Disibility before if she knew and she said no ..I also did send a email to HR about the personal attack with breast sagga and emailing etc so then at that time my HR was Sindi Sitholi steped out of the meeting and called me and gave me a form to declare my Disibility and said that would protect me ...so I drank my tablets pulled my self together and won more certificates and started this twisted notion of being perfect with everything ...I had the Admin for our team check my image dailey so I fall in the correct category at all times ..my staff and routes and payroll and feedback all ahead of time...still trying to get to be a regional manager one day ..but it took its toll on my family my son only at that time and my marriage there was no balance...and every now and then hospitilisation in Bell street psychiatric ward with laptop and tablet and work phone trying to stay compliant at all times even from my hospital bed ..then one good day I was parked at PNP hyper market Centurion and I walked to my car in a stuped skirt part of our effective new uniform with a short black court shoe suite Jacket etc and collected 2 boxes of samples of Axe deodorant and tierd and stressed busy building a Rugby world cup Tresseme shampoo stand display with my team who worked night shift ...and I didn't sleep and the boxes where heavey i locked the car and had these boxes and papers and tablet etc and a car bumped me as i turned and walked away i woke up with my head against my car and stock all over no car to be seen my foot neck and head and back in tremendous pain confused and sore and a car watch looking at me i then slowly got up and realised that something was not ok .. Car watch ..assisted me to pick up everything and put it in my car ..I felt really sore and disorientated but worried i wouldn't make it to Krugersdorp in time to collect my son i don't know up to today how I made it ..but I drove to Krugersdorp and then realised I had no feeling in my right hand left foot and memory loss and stoped at Krugersdorp Net care hospital ...they phoned and sorted my son and off i went for tests and everything ...I tried working like that ...but something was wrong ...I couldn't remember things or plan or concentrate and had black outs etc i walked with crutches and a moon boot after a fire days i tried to ..still work with physio etc ..and could not cope ..HR then informed me i have to go on temporary ill health as my sick leave was depleted and all off a suden i was behind and non compliant so the Disibility proses started..I then had a major brakedown ...as I felt a failure but they said dont worry u will be back soon ...it took 3 months total to.put me on temporary disibility...and then they collected my company car phone etc from my house ...reality then set in badly and I went in again psychiatric unit ...also physio reports steroids infusion in my lower back vertebrae Ct scans etc etc ..during the years i have tried to go back but ..always no possition or u see a occupational the****** etc and no luck ...so I went to the CCMA for ************** still in crutches etc months of preparation...my Dad went with me on the date and we went in for mediation and spoke to the head of CCMA at that point in time it still showed my full salary company car as R5000 medical aid etc ...and after everything Unilever Smollan then found a loop hole that of you earn above a setain amount Gross u can not make use of the CCMA and need to get legal representation for high court at that point in time my salary was dropped and the bel started with DISCOVERY GROUP LIFE DISIBILITY and HR ..Also up intill today my workmans compensation has never paid out ..cause the company hasn't assisted me with everything ..so u get a email almost every 3 months for a review that means of u don't comply with medical reports you loose your disibility income ...you have to see doctors , psychologist etc to get them and in the fine print your medical aid is only covered by DOSCOVERY GROUP RISK LIFE FOR 12 MONTHS there after your problem so through all the emotional pain physical pain and a brain that never stops hurting i continued with DISCOVERY health so I could get my meds and medication adjustments that is worse then anything ...in hospital and hop skip and jump for dates and not receiving communication on time and getting more and more in the **** financially...and either DISCOVERY HEALTH OR DISCOVERY GROUP RISK dont pay the bills or reports and u left *****ed having to pay it from the bit you have over your rent gets behind you end up on debt counselling and eventually marriage problems etc and then you end up on the street cause with your last pregnancy you just went in to depression ..and u where eventually diagnosed with frontal lobe epilepsy from your accident ..and you supposed to submit a report on the 27 of June 2019 and see your Psychologist for it and u rushed to Flora clinic and have a emergency C section cause you having multiple seizures and you missing your report date and you recieve the communication on email as you going into theater ..I had no baby clothes no pads nothing as i still had homeless status paying off the debts and **** ..and trying to keep my kids as Social welfare was put on me ..and u recieve your last income the following morning ..and you in so much pain ..from C section and every one is under the impression you a drug addict cause you had THC in your body from Cannibas oil to release your seisures and you treated like **** by everyone in hospital and social servises are there and the gynecologist cut your sons head apparently a accident and they won't give you propper pain medication cause you supositly this **** mother who takes drugs ...nightmare ...DR M****AKUS your neurologist then tries to calm u and get you back on meds etc only decent person around ! Then social servises pitches you start getting survival of lion mother and gather everything after fighting for your life in ICU not being able to see your baby you rip out all the drips etc get up.. Your **** sticking out ...every one telling you they gone stick a needle in your **** if u get up to see your baby ..but being who.i am I got up and walked blood running down my legs ...no family no mother nothing ..my husband at home with my 2 kids ...I got to maternity ward and finally saw my beutifull baby boy skinny and tall ...didn't have much to eat ...and survived a suicide attempt ....still trying to forgive my self ...and my aunt had me locked up cause she called the welfare as we at a point lived with her cause we where batling and it affected her financially and at that point in time I smashed her window out of anger and hurt and a hormonal surge of pregnancy that I didn't know ...and as the police took me away i swallows hands full of tablets ..but anyways ...so I took my son packed my bags bleeding and in suvere pain volentry discharged from Flora clinic ...started getting more and more seisures and panic attacks medical aid was suspended ...no medication and told and no mercy from Smollan or at that point in Time DISCOVERY GROUP LIVE DISIBILITY and took a pension payout to try and get on my feet but doomed ...all went to debt and survival then tried to find a job ..with Disibility status u can't lie about and no luck out of desperation emailed Marlene du Preez and ask if we could bury the hatched and come back....and a cold reply back on email ...no vacanseys ...but I kept fighting Discovery and Unilever and sent J88 and everything i could to make them understand what was going on ...eventually they responded that DISCOVERY LIFE GROUP DISIBILITY WOULD PAY MY BENIFITS AGAIN relieved and happy....then came the good old letter they would pay the consultation and reports ..for me to be able to get my benifits i worked so hard for ...so went to doctors got everything and sent it ..so then the nightmare has just continued my bit of back pay was paid to Smollan instead of me with a new review date again more than ever before they want dispensing records etc etc ..so I tried to get medical aid but 12 months waiting period ...yet all is due ..then they didn't pay accounts from before by the doctors ..and current ..so extension after extension was asked by me then they said i must take out a retirement anuity ..so I did with Sanlam and yes they nasty and sarcastic ..and didn't as yet pay my contribution ..or back pay i lost..intrest on and still has the odasity to say the back pay money does not belong to me ..but I suffered for that benifits..so my son just tuned 9 months..and we still busy with this nightmare... Doctors where paid late then I had an appointment with the doctors on the 21st as a result of late payment of accounts and benifits i had to move that to the 2nd of March i asked for another extension 20 days where given then my aunt was ******d and her funeral was supposed to be on the 2nd of March and I have been a wreck..and traumatised...as I went to orphanidges etc cause my mom passed earley in my life she was my mother too and even though she drove me nuts i am not coping with her passing ...so I asked for another extension and I am begging my doctors to see me and do reports as DISCOVERY GROUP LIVE DISIBILITY gave me a whole 11 days till 31 to submit and I must pay outstanding accounts and consultation from my little bit I get which totals to R4500 by 21 March 2020 or suspension again ....so everyone says use Goverment Psychiatric servises that laughs at you when they see your medicine script ...and says they don't issue reports so to me i have been set up to fail ..between Unilever Smollan and the damage did to me psychologically Physically and everything i have lost and some things are not mendable or u can't medicate it right ....like my dignity and all my belongings and no career and people that treat you like **** ...and all my belongings my home my bakkie ..my childrens things living on the streets salvation army Villa Gloria shack village the embarrassment of borrowing begging ...standing in soup kitchen ques and looking for food in a dustban family weighting u off wearing others UNWANTED things ..pleading on facebook for help being sworn and called a begger and bum etc ...no more being abused and kicked by all ...my name is LeeAnne Lorna Nickel I ask your help and comments in the above as i don't deserve this ...and can't anymore ...

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Discovery Life
Discovery Life's reply09 Mar 2020, 11:43
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Dear LeeAnne N 

We acknowledge receipt of your complaint and confirm that it has been referred to the Discovery Group Risk/Life complaints department for their direct response to you. 

Regards

Precious 
DISCOVERY LIFE