Couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes...
Yesterday I was called in to our HR Director's office with my line manager and told that someone at work has made an allegation of misconduct against me. I wasn't told who had made the allegation or exactly what it involved, just in very loose terms that it involved falsifying information and that I would receive a letter tomorrow (i.e. today) detailing what I have been accused of.
I can't turn to my line manager for support with this because she is the investigator and must therefore remain impartial. Unfortunately she's also about to go on two weeks leave, so the investigation won't start until she returns in October, so not only will I have spent the last night unable to sleep and feeling terrible because I don't know what I'm supposed to have done, I'll be spending the next three weeks not knowing what's going to happen about it. During this time, although we haven't been told when, a restructure will start affecting our entire department.
I have been told though that the worst I can expect if I'm 'found guilty' is a written warning, not dismissal.
All of this happened between 4 and 5 pm yesterday.
I came home yesterday feeling my heart race for the entire journey. Once I was home and telling Matt what's going on I pretty much collapsed in tears and spent the evening sobbing. I have no appetite, I can't sleep, and now I can feel my stomach cramping every time I think about the whole situation. I feel sick, and I have a prizewinning headache.
I don't think I can do three more weeks of this.
I'm tempted to just email my manager and the HR Director today and tell them that whatever I'm supposed to have done I admit to it fully and tell them to just put the damn warning on my file.
To be honest, if after two and a half years consistently working above and beyond what's asked of me in a job where I am working with someone acknowledged (behind closed doors) to be one of the most unprofessional nightmares you could ever work with (not my line manager but a project lead who I'm pretty sure is the one who's made the allegation), if this is enough to taint their opinion of me, I don't much care about that opinion anyway.
I am so upset though, I really thought they were better than this...
I can't turn to my line manager for support with this because she is the investigator and must therefore remain impartial. Unfortunately she's also about to go on two weeks leave, so the investigation won't start until she returns in October, so not only will I have spent the last night unable to sleep and feeling terrible because I don't know what I'm supposed to have done, I'll be spending the next three weeks not knowing what's going to happen about it. During this time, although we haven't been told when, a restructure will start affecting our entire department.
I have been told though that the worst I can expect if I'm 'found guilty' is a written warning, not dismissal.
All of this happened between 4 and 5 pm yesterday.
I came home yesterday feeling my heart race for the entire journey. Once I was home and telling Matt what's going on I pretty much collapsed in tears and spent the evening sobbing. I have no appetite, I can't sleep, and now I can feel my stomach cramping every time I think about the whole situation. I feel sick, and I have a prizewinning headache.
I don't think I can do three more weeks of this.
I'm tempted to just email my manager and the HR Director today and tell them that whatever I'm supposed to have done I admit to it fully and tell them to just put the damn warning on my file.
To be honest, if after two and a half years consistently working above and beyond what's asked of me in a job where I am working with someone acknowledged (behind closed doors) to be one of the most unprofessional nightmares you could ever work with (not my line manager but a project lead who I'm pretty sure is the one who's made the allegation), if this is enough to taint their opinion of me, I don't much care about that opinion anyway.
I am so upset though, I really thought they were better than this...
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ResolvingWorkplaceDisputes/Disciplinaryprocedures/DG_10028115
ReplyDeleteOr in other words, your HR are crap and your office is acting illegally. Get a union rep and take them to the fucking cleaners.
Ahem. Sorry, righteous outrage probably not all that helpful to you. Rest assured you have lots of sympathy and virtual hugs coming from this direction, and fervent hopes that the instigator of all this falls under a lorry.