Messed up at work, need advice...

Matt-Page said:
I admit, what I did was wrong. I've worked here 7 years and it's no news that my mouth gets me into trouble. It's who I am.

I'm a bit annoyed at my boss for going to the big boss and effectively grassing me up when he could have dealt with this himself. I'll take whatever he wants to say to me. I've done a lot of good work for this company including projects, working out of my contract hours, support, training, call out, traveling, etc. I hope this goes in my favour.

Strongly considering arriving with my resignation but unfortunately I've got a mortgage and bills to pay.
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I've been in similar situations where it just escalates out of all proportions. My last gaffe was getting an airsoft rifle delivered to my place of work and my supervisor opened it up before I arrived and reported it to his boss who then reported it to another boss who then reported it to company security.

Fortunately company security just laughed it off but one of the bosses was threatening me with gross misconduct. He was such a :mad:
 
Surely they can't sack you for that.

You basically involuntarily aired your opinion of the new system to everyone at work instead of keeping it to yourself and your mate. The fact is it's an opinion. You're not going to act on it.

The only thing they can get you on is misuse of company resources and maybe that you've hampered productivity by reducing morale.

They have no grounds to sack you.
 
Was the system you were badmouthing one that your employer provides?

If so, I'd expect a serious kicking.

If not, you might get off more lightly.
 
I feel pretty low right now, knowing this bollocking is approaching tomorrow. I've booked a room and now just waiting for him to accept the meeting request.

I'm still not sure if I should go in there, say I'm sorry and just take whatever he says OR go on the defense. I don't think defending my actions would be a good idea, what I did was wrong, but I'm not sorry for what I said. I can only think me standing there and telling him the millions of pounds, countless resource and head count they have spent on this is a complete joke. My workload has increased ten fold and I've been given even more trainees who bother me constantly all day for help. I'm ranting now. Time to stop.
 
You've had a verbal warning by the sounds of it, leave it at that and keep your nose clean. They can't sack you for this.
 
vonhelmet said:
Was the system you were badmouthing one that your employer provides?

If so, I'd expect a serious kicking.

If not, you might get off more lightly.
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No, some of it is in-house, some of it we have bought in from development companies. We don't sell IT solutions, we are in the retail sector.
 
Question is could you design and implement a better system replacement? (I'm guessing from the reply to all no) otherwise I'd have suggested going in there and telling the big boss you think you can do better.


EDIT: Just seen you work in retail lol I know exactly how it goes with system replacements.
 
DJMK4 said:
We have all done it, or even worse!

One of our old collegues messed up big time sending an e-mail, so I went to forward it to my mate in work and said

"She has ***** up again, useless!!!"

Accidently selected reply to all instead of forward, so not only did it go to that woman, but various other people!
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At one place I worked, an email was sent by a secretary to the "All partners and staff" email list, which basically meant everyone employed in the UK by one of the top 10 accounting firms, so several thousand people, informing us of a virus threat. Now, we were not supposed to ever send something to that mailing list without a really good reason and with express permision.

I checked out the virus threat, and it was a fake one, and the Symantec website had a page about it. For some reason I decided to send an email back, replying to all, to say that it was a fake, and that it was a waste of everyone's time to be sending it to everyone, that it could be trivially checked whether it was legit or not, and that in any case the best people to relay such a thing to would be the IT staff.

I had a couple of people come back to me to say that I was bang out of line to dress down the secretary like that... I also had a couple of emails from partners to say thanks for sending out something like that, and hopefully it would stop people doing it again :D
 
Don't try and explain why you did what you did and start rambling on. Just take the heat and apologize and you may just get away with a written warning.
 
just apologise like you already have, you shouldn't get fired for this, that would be pathetic.

Everyone has a bit of a moan about someone/something with someone else, and if they don't they are lying

Human nature
 
Sundance said:
I thought what you said was pretty funny.
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Same, although i might not feel the same way if it were me who did the replacement :p


Just have to accept that you screwed up and take whatever comes your way. You know that it was appropriate and why, and you know it was a mistake that was entirely your fault. Just accept that going in and try not to ramble about it :)
 
say nothing until you are asked about it and then keep it simple and apologise but they can't fire you for having an opinion, perhaps explain why you think it is flawed. however, i wouldn't be expecting a rise this year and you should now step up your game if you want your working life to not be made a little bit of a nightmare.
 
I would accept that you need to apologise for the voicing of a private opinion between two friends to the company on the whole.

If they ask you about the specifics of the opinion, then you can state the reasons you believe it to be such. I very much doubt they will do this though.

This situation is simply about you stepping out of line and is some peoples view attempting to cause trouble. If you apologise and keep to the facts you should be fine.
 
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