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Employment Tribunal

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saru
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Employment Tribunal

Post by saru »

Just to let people on here know, I went through my ET last month and lost my claim of constructive dismissal because I had another job to go to when I left RM.

The tribunal said that there was no doubt I had been through a bad time. They also found in my favour with regards to PIDA, the Public Interest Disclosure Act. I reported a driver at work for smoking pot on duty and he did me for B&H. Yes, I know, you couldn't make it up :mad . His OH is a RM manager, so it went through. :no no

So now I'm going to put the last 4 years behind me. Fortunately I'm very happy where I'm working now & I'm working with a great bunch of guys. But it does sometimes still grate that the bullies who made my life a misery still have jobs & will undoubtably do the same to someone else in the future.

Good luck to all you guys out there, I'll still check in on this forum & I'm still behind you all the way. RM are a bunch of sh1tes & I'm glad I'm out of it.

PS. I meant to say, I got a couple of the managers squirming in the witness box....that was fun :dance :funneh :funneh
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by REDLETTER »

saru wrote:Just to let people on here know, I went through my ET last month and lost my claim of constructive dismissal because I had another job to go to when I left RM.

The tribunal said that there was no doubt I had been through a bad time. They also found in my favour with regards to PIDA, the Public Interest Disclosure Act. I reported a driver at work for smoking pot on duty and he did me for B&H. Yes, I know, you couldn't make it up :mad . His OH is a RM manager, so it went through. :no no

So now I'm going to put the last 4 years behind me. Fortunately I'm very happy where I'm working now & I'm working with a great bunch of guys. But it does sometimes still grate that the bullies who made my life a misery still have jobs & will undoubtably do the same to someone else in the future.

Good luck to all you guys out there, I'll still check in on this forum & I'm still behind you all the way. RM are a bunch of sh1tes & I'm glad I'm out of it.

PS. I meant to say, I got a couple of the managers squirming in the witness box....that was fun :dance :funneh :funneh
Got to do that to my old Managing Director some years back.... :Very Happy He thought his brief would take the flack. Oh how I enjoyed it.............and in my case I won

Good luck to you mate.....you're out of this hell hole.....and have another job!
norbert
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by norbert »

says everything about RM
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Re: Employment Tribunal

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:Very Happy Best of luck in your future without R/M--glad you had the Mangers squirming.
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by coxie »

to be fair was there any need to report him? your not 1 of them managers boys are you that tell the managers everything? Yes i know he shouldnt do it but he is a fellow worker none the less and might have had a family to support and could have lost his job.
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Re: Employment Tribunal

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coxie wrote:to be fair was there any need to report him? your not 1 of them managers boys are you that tell the managers everything? Yes i know he shouldnt do it but he is a fellow worker none the less and might have had a family to support and could have lost his job.
Smoking Pot when driving is just as dangerous as drink driving - he knew the consequences and risks of doing it when he did the evil weed. Yes I would report anyone I know for Drink or Drugged Driving, why, because innocent lives are more important than the guilty keeping their jobs. Yes I knew someone who was killed by a drink driver.
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by stokes11eg »

:sad: Too true True Blue--I remember being taken out by one such, and he was flying along at eighty miles an hour in a forty mile zone.
saru
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by saru »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
coxie wrote:to be fair was there any need to report him? your not 1 of them managers boys are you that tell the managers everything? Yes i know he shouldnt do it but he is a fellow worker none the less and might have had a family to support and could have lost his job.
Smoking Pot when driving is just as dangerous as drink driving - he knew the consequences and risks of doing it when he did the evil weed. Yes I would report anyone I know for Drink or Drugged Driving, why, because innocent lives are more important than the guilty keeping their jobs. Yes I knew someone who was killed by a drink driver.
Thanks TBT.

This guy had a dozen accidents in 4 years, fortunately nobody was hurt. He should have been taken off driving.

Coxie - I didn't do it to get him into trouble. If you took the time to understand the rules & regs you would know that he wouldn't be punished, but helped to get over his addiction. Unfortunately RM chose to turn a blind eye & still are doing from what I've heard.

Thanks everyone who's wished me well.
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by lekker »

You did right to shop the dozy bastard - these people are a menace. :evil/mad

good luck in the future mate :Applause
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by Straight4ward »

stokes11eg wrote;
"I remember being taken out by one such, and he was flying along at eighty miles an hour in a forty mile zone"

One of ours, then? Got to get finished early, no doubt.
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by TeeferTiger »

Sorry to hear about the ET. Bloody ridiculous!!

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Re: Employment Tribunal

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coxie wrote:to be fair was there any need to report him? your not 1 of them managers boys are you that tell the managers everything? Yes i know he shouldnt do it but he is a fellow worker none the less and might have had a family to support and could have lost his job.
Yeh right. Suppose if that bloke spliffed up, got in a car and mowed down one of your family you would be saying the same thing. Jesus its a place of work.
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by greynut »

saru wrote:
TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
coxie wrote:to be fair was there any need to report him? your not 1 of them managers boys are you that tell the managers everything? Yes i know he shouldnt do it but he is a fellow worker none the less and might have had a family to support and could have lost his job.
Smoking Pot when driving is just as dangerous as drink driving - he knew the consequences and risks of doing it when he did the evil weed. Yes I would report anyone I know for Drink or Drugged Driving, why, because innocent lives are more important than the guilty keeping their jobs. Yes I knew someone who was killed by a drink driver.
Thanks TBT.

This guy had a dozen accidents in 4 years, fortunately nobody was hurt. He should have been taken off driving.

Coxie - I didn't do it to get him into trouble. If you took the time to understand the rules & regs you would know that he wouldn't be punished, but helped to get over his addiction. Unfortunately RM chose to turn a blind eye & still are doing from what I've heard.

Thanks everyone who's wished me well.
Why did you resign. I am interested because I have something very similar going on at the moment.
saru
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by saru »

greynut wrote:
saru wrote:
TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
coxie wrote:to be fair was there any need to report him? your not 1 of them managers boys are you that tell the managers everything? Yes i know he shouldnt do it but he is a fellow worker none the less and might have had a family to support and could have lost his job.
Smoking Pot when driving is just as dangerous as drink driving - he knew the consequences and risks of doing it when he did the evil weed. Yes I would report anyone I know for Drink or Drugged Driving, why, because innocent lives are more important than the guilty keeping their jobs. Yes I knew someone who was killed by a drink driver.
Thanks TBT.

This guy had a dozen accidents in 4 years, fortunately nobody was hurt. He should have been taken off driving.

Coxie - I didn't do it to get him into trouble. If you took the time to understand the rules & regs you would know that he wouldn't be punished, but helped to get over his addiction. Unfortunately RM chose to turn a blind eye & still are doing from what I've heard.

Thanks everyone who's wished me well.
Why did you resign. I am interested because I have something very similar going on at the moment.
I'd just had enough, greynut. I'd had 2 years of putting complaints & grievances in, I'd had a couple of malicious counter-complaints against me & I just knew it wasn't going to get any better. I'd had over 7 months off sick with stress, then I had that B&H complaint put in against me which was upheld. It was the final straw. It was easier for RM to see me as the problem instead of dealing with the bullies (who by the way had done the same to another woman before I joined the office, she was medically retired with stress.) I got another job & it's now 2 years since I left RM; I've never looked back.

Good luck to you. If I can help in any way just PM me. I'll be glad to offer any advice I can.
norbert
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Re: Employment Tribunal

Post by norbert »

I can sympathise with staff - worn down by " the system " - probably exactly what RM wanted