RE: RE: Help needed.....may loose job....

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

We don't have a personnel department, but I did ask for a witness to just
l=
isten in.

One thing that did come up during the "discussion" was some time
back I wen=
t to go through a fire door and found out the handle had busted and I
could=
not open it. I went another way then propped the door open and reported it=
. Shortly later the handle was fixed, apparently not for the first time,
bu=
t the same director wanted to know who had propped it open, I said I did
an=
d a row ensued.

To explain the situation, there are a set of stairs with a fire door at
the=
top and bottom with a fire escape, our back door, at the bottom of the sta=
irs. My thoughts were, if the fire exit gets blocked I do not have an
alter=
native exit as the fire door is not working, this I deemed to be unsafe,
he=
did not like it and said I would be put on a formal warning if it happened=
again. This was mentioned by him to which I asked if this was what was thi=
s was really about?, he said no. I then informed him that the fire exit in
=
sales was found locked one day last week and this is the very reason I
beli=
eve I was right with my earlier decision....I wonder if sour grapes come
to=
mind?

There were 2 other instances over the past year or so of complaints made
of=
me to our company, 1 saying I was rude to a lady user, it turned out I was=
not even on that site at the time! it was an internal IT person, I did not=
get an apology and did not get an answer how the complaint got directed to=
me in the first place!
The next one was an internal IT person from the same site complained that
I=
had just left the job and went for a drive! what I actually did do was unl=
oad the van at that site with new PC's, load old PC's, drive to another
sit=
e to drop the old PC's off and then return and collect the new PC's. I had
=
2 co-workers with me at the time whom said I had told him what I was going
=
to do and the lad in question said he did not complain about me, so how
did=
that get back to my company?

Are you seeing a pattern here?

I did ask the director and the technical director at a complaints meeting
I=
had to attend if there is some sort of vendetta against me, were they tryi=
ng to get me to resign? they said of course not....

I'm not convinced....

I think the "major breach" comes from the fact this contract is
worth =A34.=
2m to us so they are going OTT on everything...

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Butler [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 July 2003 22:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: Help needed.....may loose job....


> Sorry to bitch about this but I feel this is a personal=20
> attack at my reputation.

Brian,

Surely you had personnel present at this meeting?  They would have to
document everything said and done in the meeting, and I'm sure they
would also want to see these written procedures that you have breached.

Even if there was something and you breached it - wearing a wrist strap
in an incorrect manner hardly constitutes a "major breach".=20=20
Your company should have procedures for diciplining staff, including
verbal warnings, written warnings, dismissal etc - it's have to be
pretty damn serious for them to move straight to dismissal.

You should also request to have someone present on your behalf to bear
witness to the proceedings and/or to represent you if you wish.

You might want to approach employment tribunal type people (sorry, don't
know exactly who it would be) for some advice - this does sound like he
is out to get you.

HTH,

Tony




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