OK, here we go then! It's been an
extremely long day...!
Got up at 4:45 this morning!
Real PPL will know that there should only be
one 4 o'clock in the day!! But hey even at that time it was a beautiful sunny day already!!
Did my rounds in the City Centre and got back and finished for Noon... Spent the next hour producing 2 full photocopy sets of my file. At 2pm was advised they were running 30 minutes behind schedule... @ 2:30 we went in...!
The woman hearing the appeal is a GM from another depot in Yorkshire. She was stand-offish from the word go and had an air of superiority about her. You could see from her facial reaction when I produced my file and gave her her pack of my case file that she was only there to tow the company line.
I spent the next 3 hours throwing everything I could at her just to spark a reaction. I accused Supervision and Management of fraud, of presenting falsified evidence, of committing criminal offences, of ignoring ACAS guidelines, of ignoring Company Procedure, of committing offences under the Postal Services Act..... Nothing, no reaction, no surprised comment, a few snide remarks which were reciprocated. Nothing but a straight face to 41 pages of statementised evidence and 13 pages of supporting documents.
After 3 & 1/4 hours I concluded my case with 8 precedents. I declared my case complete and she declared the meeting closed, and I would get a written judgement within a calendar month.
So... A bit of an anti-climax really..
But..... I'm
sooooo worn out now that I don't care!!!
Free at last! 
Re: Free at last! 
