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Hi, I'm really worried about my job. My manager invited me over to have a meeting this morning about my timekeeping. I've been suffering from depression and anxiety for over a year, and things have really started to get on top of me since around February. Basically as part of my job, I have to pull electronic items from a database, work the item, and then close the case. I then have to update another system to show how many items of work I have done for that day. At the end of the week, my manager archives the week and a new week begins ready for recording.
Due to my mental health, there are around 4 separate days where I did not turn into work, like a couple of days in June and a couple in July, and I did not tell anyone. I stupidly recorded on the logging system that I worked items when I was actually off work. My manager said they are looking into things however may be classed as gross misconduct as they can quite clearly see that the work items I have claimed to have done haven't been. At the moment i've played dumb and haven't admitted to being absent from work without authorisation, however I know that what I have done is probably going to be treat as fraudulant and could lose my job. I really have been so depressed though and wondering if this will be a mitigating factor, or is my job just going to say that this is no excuse and that I knew what I was doing. Any help or advise would be appreciated.
Due to my mental health, there are around 4 separate days where I did not turn into work, like a couple of days in June and a couple in July, and I did not tell anyone. I stupidly recorded on the logging system that I worked items when I was actually off work. My manager said they are looking into things however may be classed as gross misconduct as they can quite clearly see that the work items I have claimed to have done haven't been. At the moment i've played dumb and haven't admitted to being absent from work without authorisation, however I know that what I have done is probably going to be treat as fraudulant and could lose my job. I really have been so depressed though and wondering if this will be a mitigating factor, or is my job just going to say that this is no excuse and that I knew what I was doing. Any help or advise would be appreciated.
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