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

["David Gumbrell" <david@xxxxxxx>]

Brian,

I am sorry to hear of your troubles. You really must get competent legal
ad=
vice. We have found that decent solicitors will often give you instant
advi=
ce over the phone for free in these emergency situations. They presumably
f=
ind that helping out then may lead to business later. Given that your
situa=
tion is already extreme, it doesn't seem that consulting a solicitor could
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inflame it any further. It will also help you understand your rights and
en=
sure you take the correct steps NOW to reduce any chance that you
compromis=
e your situation with regard to any remedy in law.=20

You should dig out your contract and terms and conditions of employment.
Th=
is will make it clear if your company has a formal disciplinary procedure.
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If this is not being followed then your company (or this particular
manager=
) is entering very shaky ground. It is also important that you modify your
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behaviour. Entering in rows with the manager in question may not be
further=
ing your cause, however much of an idiot and however annoying or wrong the
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guy is.=20


Best Regards,

David

----- Original Message -----=20
From: Brian G. Reynolds=20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=20
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:49 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: Help needed.....may loose job....


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

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

To explain the situation, there are a set of stairs with a fire door at t=
he top and bottom with a fire escape, our back door, at the bottom of the
s=
tairs. My thoughts were, if the fire exit gets blocked I do not have an
alt=
ernative exit as the fire door is not working, this I deemed to be unsafe,
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he did not like it and said I would be put on a formal warning if it
happen=
ed again. This was mentioned by him to which I asked if this was what was
t=
his was really about?, he said no. I then informed him that the fire exit
i=
n sales was found locked one day last week and this is the very reason I
be=
lieve I was right with my earlier decision....I wonder if sour grapes come
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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
w=
as not even on that site at the time! it was an internal IT person, I did
n=
ot get an apology and did not get an answer how the complaint got directed
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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 u=
nload the van at that site with new PC's, load old PC's, drive to another
s=
ite to drop the old PC's off and then return and collect the new PC's. I
ha=
d 2 co-workers with me at the time whom said I had told him what I was
goin=
g to do and the lad in question said he did not complain about me, so how
d=
id 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 tr=
ying 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 =A3=
4.2m to us so they are going OTT on everything...

B.


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