Sacked...by TEXT?!

Soldato
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Working for a women boss is either really good or really bad IME,
give me an average bloke every time.

A survey carried out about a year ago revealed that the vast majority of workers (male and female) preferred a male boss as they were deemed to be fairer and less prone to bringing personal problems into work. They are also less prone to "bitching" about colleagues or have mood swings.

Even 2/3rds of women prefer male bosses as they can separate personal problems from work and have a more "straight talking attitude"



References:

http://news.scotsman.com/womenandwork/Men-make-better-bosses-according.6470445.jp

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/b...t-leave-personal-life-at-home-86908-22482185/

and many many more references available.


Kinda smacks of hypocrisy (and actually supports the above argument) that women bleat about not having enough females in top jobs yet actually PREFER male bosses at work.
 
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I'd certainly be looking at unfair dismissal. Even in the probation period they have to give good reasons.


M.

eh ?

No You wouldn't

he's on probation.

Usually, he can be sacked with a weeks notice for no reason other than the sky was a bit cloudy today if they want. Thats the point of a probationary period. You can be let go easily if you don't work out.

As an example, our HR department are **** scared of tribunals. So much so that even somebody who hacked his boss' work computer, obtained files from it and distributed them via email was let off with a written warning. But even we managed to sack somebody on the week before christmas during probation because he was crap.

The only issue here is her lack of morals doing it by text. But if she's that sort of boss, he's better off working somewhere else.
 
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Best to get out of the place early on if the manager is like that. There are better jobs out there for someone that's actually committed.

+1

Reminds me of place were I worked, **** was using the 3 month probation period for cheap labour instead of hiring a contractor. I caught on to this from the way the boss was pressurising me to complete a project in double quick time. Apparently there had also been a string of good developers before me that had been sacked :rolleyes:

Anyway one day I decided to 'work from home' and the rest is history. Really glad it worked out that way as I found out that the company primarily focused on selling porn, writing viruses, poisoning DNSs just to steal users money :eek:

****** got what he deserved anyway :D

Fully star out swear words
 
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Believe it or not, I've had worse. I was employed by a company to start up a sales department, create a database from old clients, and start bringing in new business. The employer knew I was ill (long term condition/disability) when they employed me.

In the first 10 weeks, I brought in quite a few new clients - one of which was so large it necessitated a new sub-office being set up! The next week (week 11) I had ONE day off due to unavoidable illness which made it physically impossible to get to work, and was related to my disability.

I received a SSP form in the post the next day, with the front page being ticked "No longer works for our company". Low. :o
Is that even legal????
 
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this thread is cringeworthy. im lucky my boss is anchient and doesnt know how to text lol!.

i was doing some voluntry work for a company about 2 years ago. all i got paid was petrol money, and they sacked me because i wouldnt work over time. in my defence it was a bank holiday weekend and i was booked up in a caravan park.
 
Soldato
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eh ?

No You wouldn't

he's on probation.

We were having this discussion with HR. Even though we have a probationary period it's actually worthless. Basically you still have to go through the dismissal process (i.e. verbal warning, written warning, etc.) before you can get rid of them.



M.
 
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He was there for a good few months...it's such a shame. To be fair, it isn't really what he wanted to do with his life so he's concentrating on something else now and has a new job to tide him over :)

Companies just seem to treat graduates like poo. So many people I know have been hired for a few weeks and let go just as the probation period was ending. Somebody should put a stop to firing people without good reason :(

As for Rainmaker...how vile of them :(

Still, I can see why a company might do it to cover their backs. At my old job, we had someone work for a week and then text in on the Monday after saying 'Not coming in. This job isn't really for me'.
 
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Reminded me of a place I used to work at before I went contracting. Basically the firm lost some big contracts so one engineer had to go so we all had to reapply for our jobs.

I got a text message one day proporting to be from head office HR telling me to report to them the next day.

I immediatley challenged my limp wristed so called supervisor who had no idea how to proceed so I called the HR office. They said that there was no way it was sent from them and asked me to quarantine my phone until they could deal with it.

I tried calling the number who sent the text message several times and it just rang out. A couple of days later HR attended our local office after doing some investigations and called me in. They explained that the text was sent from one of my so called work mates who did it as a joke.

They gave him a final written warning for it and some other engineer got made redundant instead.

Moral of the story, don't trust anyone at work.
 
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Female bosses are horrible to work with, almost psychotic in my experience. Never again.

In the job previous to the one I'm in now my 3 female bosses were brilliant.
In the job I'm doing now I have 4 female bosses I answer to and they are all brilliant.
For the 33 years I worked on factories I had scores of male bosses and all were on power trips.
 
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Perhaps the local press might be interested in his story? My region's TV local news program ran a story about a girl being sacked for slagging her boss off on FB so you never know...
 
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