Hi all.
I am seeking advice from all angles on the subject of Unfair Disciplinary procedures.
Bear with me, this may be a long read. Basically, I've been working for my current employers for 8 years, and at the end of October I was asked if I wanted to take on a new role within the Office. I was told (and already knew) that the job was complicated, but that I would receive their full support and be given necessary training. I enthusiastically accepted as I was ready for a new challenge as my previous duties were extremely easy and really quite dull!
Fast forward a few weeks. Despite asking different managers/supervisors on different occasions - I have received hardly any training. The training I have received has been 15 minutes here and there, loosely explaining different procedures, which have never tied together in the right order. Mistakes have been made, and I haven't been told what I've done wrong or shown how to not make the same mistake again. I've been told numerous times to 'refer to your notes.' This book of notes includes - again - different procedures all about the place! Step one on one page, step two on another. I could go on, but basically, it's a shambles and I find it unacceptable by management to rely on just some scrappy bits of paper.
Fast forward again to the beginning of December. A big error has been made, and myself and at least 5 other employees are getting a Disciplinary for it. I STILL have had no more training, the work load is preposterous, and I feel I am being treated extremely unfairly. One step that was missed is stated in one of the multiple versions of notes that are in the book. The one I've been following DOES NOT state that step.
Does anyone think I should appeal? Or should I sit back, shut up, and take it?
Many thanks to anyone who has read my essay
JL
PS. In that meeting where they asked me to take on this new role, they said it would actually be a trial, and I could change my mind if I didn't get on with the job. But I don't see how I can go back, because they offered a part timer more hours to cover my job as soon as I said yes...
I am seeking advice from all angles on the subject of Unfair Disciplinary procedures.
Bear with me, this may be a long read. Basically, I've been working for my current employers for 8 years, and at the end of October I was asked if I wanted to take on a new role within the Office. I was told (and already knew) that the job was complicated, but that I would receive their full support and be given necessary training. I enthusiastically accepted as I was ready for a new challenge as my previous duties were extremely easy and really quite dull!
Fast forward a few weeks. Despite asking different managers/supervisors on different occasions - I have received hardly any training. The training I have received has been 15 minutes here and there, loosely explaining different procedures, which have never tied together in the right order. Mistakes have been made, and I haven't been told what I've done wrong or shown how to not make the same mistake again. I've been told numerous times to 'refer to your notes.' This book of notes includes - again - different procedures all about the place! Step one on one page, step two on another. I could go on, but basically, it's a shambles and I find it unacceptable by management to rely on just some scrappy bits of paper.
Fast forward again to the beginning of December. A big error has been made, and myself and at least 5 other employees are getting a Disciplinary for it. I STILL have had no more training, the work load is preposterous, and I feel I am being treated extremely unfairly. One step that was missed is stated in one of the multiple versions of notes that are in the book. The one I've been following DOES NOT state that step.
Does anyone think I should appeal? Or should I sit back, shut up, and take it?
Many thanks to anyone who has read my essay
JL
PS. In that meeting where they asked me to take on this new role, they said it would actually be a trial, and I could change my mind if I didn't get on with the job. But I don't see how I can go back, because they offered a part timer more hours to cover my job as soon as I said yes...
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