I apologise that i did not thank you for your advice, i agree, it was very rude of me and also wasn't done purposely. When you are capitalising your words it comes across like you are angry at me for some reason, so i just said i am not here for an argument. Thank you for your help and advice and again i am sorry if i came across rude.

The telecoms provider is paid by me - I already had the contract with the phone company and my employer purchased the phone separately. - Sorry for the confusion. I do not have and never have recieved my payslip - this was something i was requesting every month but always got fobbed off with excuses. So i am guessing he was probably dodgy Thank you for your help

I am only here for advice, not an argument. The email was not from my employer but from his wife asking if I would accept an extended probation period to which i said no. Nothing more was said of this and i carried on working there, so why after 3 weeks of his wife suggesting this would i still be an employee at the company if i resigned? They kept me on until they found someone else for half the money and then sacked me. I never had a probation meeting i only received an email with suggestions. All i am asking if this is fair for the employer to do? To me it is very unprofessional. Ok, i understand about the phone, by all means, i will return it.

I have messages from the owner detailing that the phone belongs to myself and i am responsible for fixing the screen along with him owning responsibility of breaking my phone. Yes, i pay the phone plan bills but the phone was bought from one of his friends for myself as i said i was going to buy one when i get paid, he offered to buy me one instead then and there. I have a contract stating my notice period after my 3 month probation is up that i need to give 1 month notice in writing. I have an email from the company asking if i would accept a further 1 month probation which i replied in email - I DECLINE THE ONE MONTH PROBATION. We never had any further meetings in regards to this, it was agreed that i get my pay rise. Thank you for your response

An independent gym. They were a new company.

Sorry. Yes i was hoping to get some kind of compensation but i know i have limited rights as the employment was under 2 years so i am focused on receiving the full amount owed. I am hoping for someone to help put me in the right direction to see if i definitely have a case and how much it would cost me and is it worth me going down the legal route? Or any advice on where to go from here on my own to make sure i cam get my owed funds. I am glad i do not work there anymore but i wouldn't put myself out of work so would rather i had the time to find something else first. No income means no roof over my head etc. Thank you for replying x

Hi, I feel so alone and ganged up on in my situation of work. I had been at this job for around 5 months - 3 and a half months contractually as i started off temporary at first. I was given the role of Manager when i only applied for front of house, i had NO experience and they knew this but gave me the role anyway. I was also bought a mobile phone as they asked me to help them with social media but my phone at the time wasn't capable of doing the things they needed. The phone was said to be MINE as a way to get me to accept their job offer as at the time i had another that was for more money. I worked at a personally training gym in Hampstead, i would work from 6:15am until 20:00 at night most times. Inclusive of weekends. I would work no matter what!! I never had a day off. I requested if i could have April 11th off due to me being in hospital that previous night very unwell, and it was refused. I recieved a message from my boss saying "you better take responsibility and go in" even after i explained my have a massive bandage on my nose from the excessive nose bleeds i were having. On April the 11th the owner of the company came to me shouting and embarrassing me in front of other members of staff and clients about the lack of work another member of staff had not done (I get this on a daily basis) but this day was different. I was being shouted and sworn at. When i walked away from the front desk into the staff room to remove myself from the horrible situation, i was followed by my boss, (it was just him and i alone) where i was then told to hand over my keys and leave the premises. I took this as i was being dismissed, so i gathered my things and left. Later that day i received whatsapp messages from my boss saying he pays my wages and i should have some respect along with telling me that he has put down that i have handed my notice in and he did not dismiss me. He also said that the phone they bought for me is to be returned as this is company property. But the phone was purchased for ME not for the company. I never signed anything to state that the phone belonged to the company and i was to hand it over once my time and the company would be up. Also - when the phone had got broken and the screen was smashed (By my manager) I was told "well it's your phone so you have to pay to get it fixed" to which i did. On the day this all happened (April 11th 2017) i received an email at 5:00am saying my rights to be admin on their company facebook page had been removed, at first i thought this was an error util i got to work and this happened. I have emailed the company copying in the HR team and any other person relevant, explaining i did NOT hand my notice in, i was asked to give my keys back and leave. But i then received an email from another member of the management team saying they had witnessed me saying i am handing my notice in, but he was outside on his mobile when i left the company crying due to be sacked! I have told them to check back at their cctv to prove he was NOT there before carrying out anymore lies. When i started at the company, they did not want to pay me the salary i was asking for as i did not have previous management experience but I was an office manager and that was the asking salary and the offered salary from the other job i declined. I then offered them a lower salary for myself on a 3month probation period to prove myself and then after i would go up to my asking salary, to which they agreed and it was put in my contract. I worked so hard in that place, working day and night including weekends without days off. When i was to take a day off or even half a day i would get angry messages making me go in. I would get abusive phone calls and texts if another member of staff would do something wrong or even if they did something wrong, i was told everything would always be my fault. All inappropriate and abusive messages i still hold on file. I have told the company that i am owed my notice period of ONE month's wages, along with my holiday pay and the money owed from where i worked up until i got unfairly dismissed at the pay rise amount. I then received an email saying that i verbally agreed that i would accept an extended probation period so it would therefor be 1 week probation period money at the lower salary amount inc. of holiday minus x1 day that they claim for me to have quit along with deducting £400 for the phone. The company has struggled ever since they took over the gym and never pay any invoices, avoids the tax man, does not pay staff wages on time or at all and uses soooooo many excuses as to why. There are a number amount of staff that have now left the company that are awaiting their payments still and he has personally told me himself he will not be paying none of them. He even has one previous member of staff taking him to court in regards to his wages from November. The HR lady has not tried to help me at all and has been on their side the whole way and i feel alone and do not know what to do to make sure i get exactly what i am owed. I have bills and rent to pay at the end of this month Any help and advice would be much appreciated. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE x Sheree