This is a realy long thread so bear with me...
I got the sack today, been with the company 8 years, under 3 different bosses, never had a problem, we had a new manager around 2 years ago, no one on our company likes him (he was apointed by our directors who we never see), we have all been threre around the same amount of time. Since he arrived we have all had writen/verbal warnings of some sort and before this none of us have ever had a problem before.
I went to a job, left the loft ladder down and forgot to put it back up (stupid mistake) this was a good friend of my bosses/apointed manager and lives a few doors down, next thing I get a phone call saying her 2 year old kid climbed up the ladder and was crawling around in the loft, then when she got him down she trapped and badly cut her finger on the loft ladder. I explained I was sorry for leaving it down and she shouldnt have let a 2 year old roam the house up a set of stairs (aparantly she lifted him over the stairgate and left hiom on the stairs while she was attending to her other crying child) I also explained that if her ladder is not fit for purpose its not my fault she trapped her finger. A few days later he said we could have been sued and she had been bending his ear so now he has to fit her a new boiler for free. I think the whole thing was a big plan from the start and think its phisically impossible for a 2 year old to climb a ladder of that height and then lift up and over a beam.
I also recieved a letter about this incident.
Next incident, I got a callout to a boiler not working in a care home (no htg), It was commercial so I said I couldnt attend, he took me into a meeting saying I must attend all jobs no matter what, if i cant do the job as I am not qualified tell them you will get back. I said ok fine.
Then today I was told I have brought the company into disrepute and im sacked, he read off a list of things that I had done wrong, 1 was a blaitant lie, things I had done wrong were minor, i.e leaving a mains shut off as they had a leak, went to a job, thought it was undergassed so ar boiler, aparantly it was'nt, he went back to turn it on again, mabee I didnt have the inlet screw out far enough but boiler was going to f1 glowworm, pressure was fine, had 16mbr wp with hob not even on. Like I say a few minor things like that, all callbacks basicaly, there were about 7 things like that, I said I am so rushed all the time that it is inevitable mistakes will sometimes be made.
The company is struggling and I have heared they are going to shut down in April so i think its all a big plan to avoid paying redundancy, we were also on stop at a supplier yesterday, never happened before.
Just wanted peoples opinions on it realy, I think its unfair dismissal, I am going to see citizens advice but dont know the ins and outs, i.e can he just sack me without a writen/verbal warning, do the things mentioned above count as a writen or verbal?
I am not going to let him get away with it and will do everything I can to make it difficult. My mate who works for us said hes a nasty bloke and thinks the same, so does the other person we employ, he said he will be a whitness if i need one to say what he's like and that he thinks its wrong. Sorry for such a long thread, tried to shorten it as much as I could, any imput would be appreciated, thanks:shocked:
I got the sack today, been with the company 8 years, under 3 different bosses, never had a problem, we had a new manager around 2 years ago, no one on our company likes him (he was apointed by our directors who we never see), we have all been threre around the same amount of time. Since he arrived we have all had writen/verbal warnings of some sort and before this none of us have ever had a problem before.
I went to a job, left the loft ladder down and forgot to put it back up (stupid mistake) this was a good friend of my bosses/apointed manager and lives a few doors down, next thing I get a phone call saying her 2 year old kid climbed up the ladder and was crawling around in the loft, then when she got him down she trapped and badly cut her finger on the loft ladder. I explained I was sorry for leaving it down and she shouldnt have let a 2 year old roam the house up a set of stairs (aparantly she lifted him over the stairgate and left hiom on the stairs while she was attending to her other crying child) I also explained that if her ladder is not fit for purpose its not my fault she trapped her finger. A few days later he said we could have been sued and she had been bending his ear so now he has to fit her a new boiler for free. I think the whole thing was a big plan from the start and think its phisically impossible for a 2 year old to climb a ladder of that height and then lift up and over a beam.
I also recieved a letter about this incident.
Next incident, I got a callout to a boiler not working in a care home (no htg), It was commercial so I said I couldnt attend, he took me into a meeting saying I must attend all jobs no matter what, if i cant do the job as I am not qualified tell them you will get back. I said ok fine.
Then today I was told I have brought the company into disrepute and im sacked, he read off a list of things that I had done wrong, 1 was a blaitant lie, things I had done wrong were minor, i.e leaving a mains shut off as they had a leak, went to a job, thought it was undergassed so ar boiler, aparantly it was'nt, he went back to turn it on again, mabee I didnt have the inlet screw out far enough but boiler was going to f1 glowworm, pressure was fine, had 16mbr wp with hob not even on. Like I say a few minor things like that, all callbacks basicaly, there were about 7 things like that, I said I am so rushed all the time that it is inevitable mistakes will sometimes be made.
The company is struggling and I have heared they are going to shut down in April so i think its all a big plan to avoid paying redundancy, we were also on stop at a supplier yesterday, never happened before.
Just wanted peoples opinions on it realy, I think its unfair dismissal, I am going to see citizens advice but dont know the ins and outs, i.e can he just sack me without a writen/verbal warning, do the things mentioned above count as a writen or verbal?
I am not going to let him get away with it and will do everything I can to make it difficult. My mate who works for us said hes a nasty bloke and thinks the same, so does the other person we employ, he said he will be a whitness if i need one to say what he's like and that he thinks its wrong. Sorry for such a long thread, tried to shorten it as much as I could, any imput would be appreciated, thanks:shocked:
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