Hi all,
Looking for a bit of advice in regards to an upcoming investigation meeting i have that looks as if my actions will be classed as GM unfortunately.
The incident occurred 6 months ago and there has now been an anonymous complaint received. I am a manager in my work so maybe someone hasn't taken too kindly to me recently - anyway...i never denied the allegations as i am too honest!
Christmas lunch and one of my team members was heavily intoxicated and i had to get them home as they were barely able to walk and couldn't put two words together. I don't even think they knew where they were. As i attempted to get them home they collapsed and passed out on an elevator, attempted to fight a random woman and couldn't tell me where they lived. They were in such a state that they couldn't even take in what i was asking them. Their wife phoned them, who was 6 months pregnant at the time and he started to curse at her. Decided i would need to take the staff member home. I checked their drivers license and they hadn't updated their address ( i knew they moved house recently), i couldn't get access to his phone nor he was able to tell me his pin code due to his intoxication. I made the decision that i would probably to take him to hospital due to his condition, potential alcohol poisoning but had no way to get his emergency contact details. I made the regretful decision on the phone to my partner to ask her to log in to my work computer to obtain these details - which is probably going to be classed as unauthorised access. I had never been in a situation like this before nor seen someone in this bad a condition. I have 15 years with my employer, clean record, no other issues. Obviously i am very worried about the consequences of this which could be dismissal.
Has anyone had anything similar happen to them or have any advice they can pass on? Case law examples etc? im trying to work on my mitigation. I also suffer from anxiety which can have a bearing on my decision making.
I know i have done wrong but i was landed in the situation where i had the fate of another employee in my hands and a duty of care for my staff member.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Looking for a bit of advice in regards to an upcoming investigation meeting i have that looks as if my actions will be classed as GM unfortunately.
The incident occurred 6 months ago and there has now been an anonymous complaint received. I am a manager in my work so maybe someone hasn't taken too kindly to me recently - anyway...i never denied the allegations as i am too honest!
Christmas lunch and one of my team members was heavily intoxicated and i had to get them home as they were barely able to walk and couldn't put two words together. I don't even think they knew where they were. As i attempted to get them home they collapsed and passed out on an elevator, attempted to fight a random woman and couldn't tell me where they lived. They were in such a state that they couldn't even take in what i was asking them. Their wife phoned them, who was 6 months pregnant at the time and he started to curse at her. Decided i would need to take the staff member home. I checked their drivers license and they hadn't updated their address ( i knew they moved house recently), i couldn't get access to his phone nor he was able to tell me his pin code due to his intoxication. I made the decision that i would probably to take him to hospital due to his condition, potential alcohol poisoning but had no way to get his emergency contact details. I made the regretful decision on the phone to my partner to ask her to log in to my work computer to obtain these details - which is probably going to be classed as unauthorised access. I had never been in a situation like this before nor seen someone in this bad a condition. I have 15 years with my employer, clean record, no other issues. Obviously i am very worried about the consequences of this which could be dismissal.
Has anyone had anything similar happen to them or have any advice they can pass on? Case law examples etc? im trying to work on my mitigation. I also suffer from anxiety which can have a bearing on my decision making.
I know i have done wrong but i was landed in the situation where i had the fate of another employee in my hands and a duty of care for my staff member.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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