work problems

There is not much I can do about this to really change my situation.  At least not as soon as I would want to. There is something I just wanted to get out there, So as most of you know, when I was going through chemo treatments last Augast I took 3 months off work and  then went back to work.  I wasnt in the best spot to start work again and it was chalenging especially at first.  I was only working 4 hours but needed to take 1 hour breaks the first week about and then slowly tapered off.  My job was a stand up job and although it could have been more work, it wasnt easy either. I am a cook for the school district. 

My boss at the time was very supportive.  She was very woried about me and I could tell.  I wanted every thing to be back to normal again and when I would be struggling  she would tell me to go sit down.  As time passed i remember taking a work picture with all my co workers and she asked me to kneel on the floor for the picture.  It was the first time at work (I think) that I had to get down like that and It was a little chalenging to get back up because of my joint pain in my legs. She was sorry that she had me kneel on the floor. 

The last month of the school year, A girl quit and just before she quit It started getting busy for me and my co worker because this girl was slowing down and wasnt doing her job very well and on top of that the forth co worker was having some health problems and she was slowing down too.  The work load was on the other two of us.  The girl that was quiting worked 5 1/2 hours so to help around work I asked my boss for her extra hours.  I ended up working some of her hours.  I worked an extra hour every day in May.  I was happy to get the extra hour because I wanted to see if I could do it because I knew that in the summer I might be working more hours and I wanted to know if I could do it.  Plus when I went up to my boss that day to ask her if I could have this co workers hours she asked if i was talking about next year too.  I told her when she asked about next year that maybe I would take those too  (She didnt know it, but I was looking into a full time job with insurance at the time) thats why I said maybe.  Anyways she told me that we will do it this month and see how it goes and then decide about next years hours (She was worried about my health and ability to do those hours).  There was a time I couldnt do those hours but felt at the time I could.  One day after that conversation with her, she came up to me and told me I would be going back to my four hour shift next year.  I was mad that she wasnt going to give me that chance to prove myself like she said I would beable too.  So the next day I said to her that I had been thinking and would like to have the chance for those extra hours next year and she said we will need to talk about that next year. I was upset but just kept going forward.  I couldnt figure out why she changed her mind so quickly.

So this summer I had been think about what i was going to do.  As I have mentioned before, I am loosing my insurance this december and felt I needed to know if I was getting those extra hours or not to possible be able tp afford a different insurance.  I had been working a full time Teperary job this summer and I could do the job but because I am a single mother, I felt that the work load was too much to do both things.  I desided to go in to see the hiring manager last week to ask him about any 5 and 1/2 hours shifts at any school in the district.  He didnt know at the time but called me back two days later and told me this.  He told me that he had talked to my boss and she told him that she felt that I was kind of slow.  so I guess they desided together to give me a chance on a trial basis.  So for a month starting in Augast they said I could work for a month with those hours and then they will decide if I get too keep the hours.  It wasnt what I was expecting but it sure explains why my boss changed her mind.  Im thinking she thought I was slow even before I took the 5 and 1/2 hours shft last may.  I didnt feel I was any slower thany any one else.  In fact as I has mentioned the co worker that quit(she was moving) slowed down consireably her last month of work.

Im sorry this is so long but I was wondering what everyone thought of this.  Is there any discrimination in this?  I researched it a little but would like to know what you think

Janae