Postie in van heroics gets back to her job

[fishtank]

Does this not set a precedant? This case? How come others are sacked and not her?

Hell no.
We don't deal in precedents...leave that to lawyers.
For every 1 positive precedent there would be 10 negatives.
That's why each individual case should be decided on it's own merits.
Precedents are bad.

[NWpostie]

I am pleased she has not been sacked, but does she relise how lucky she is, a rural driver in my office had is van stolen in very similar circumstances and he lost his job. If being transfered to the mail center is her only punishment, I would take that. Any way we all know that she will end up back at her office eventually as rural deliver drivers are a specilist job that reqires local knowledge and experiance, its hard to train some one up. So sit tight

Agreed also a thought has occurred to me, if she appeals, the next manager up has the authority to overturn the decision of the Manager who issued the original punishment, good or bad, the next one up may overturn it and make it a dismissal !





I know as I made an appeal against a 12 months suspended dismissal and got it reduced to a 2 year warning, the manager who took the appeal thought it was excessive (for a minor offence) and overturned it.

She should accept it and keep her head down !

[parcelboy]

Does this not set a precedant? This case? How come others are sacked and not her?

maybe her had just received her long service award ,i was not that LUCKY . I was dismissed a week shy of 20 years thanks to all involved keep looking over your shoulders