im supposed to be staring at 8am and meeting is at half ten do i ahave to start work at 8 like normal. tried to call manager but he didnt get back to me. doesnt say on letter. i am oing to fight this on principle. every time they have ****ed me over ive managed to win in the end. its fursttrating that everything has had to be a fight over every tiny little thing. And half time they say one thing and act another so i dont know whether im coming or going. ive been tying to read upa s much on employment laws as i can so i can appeal/put in a grievance. if it was you would you feel like your being discrimated against because i have felt like for a long n time. im trying to work out what it is is it because im part time or a girl or what i cant quite figure it out. for weeks now my bosses even started just writing my figures in book instead of having proper review like all other part time and full timers. only last week they did a proper one again. we are all ALL STAFF PART TIMERs And i was there year and a half and had contracted hours and two part timers and instead of fititng them in with my hours he tried to cut mine don claiming needs of buisness but previous boss of our store and before knew i was a student and was fine. Last xmas my best mate got me a litle time off during xmas but this xmas i wasnt allowed as i was told no one inc mapny can take it bewtween nov and feb and i found our other day by head of hr that SALES people like me can take it in janurary but our bosses never told us that.

problem is i dont have anyone who works for company to ask. i am not too worried because end of day this is is my first offence but they have more to be worried if they sack me or i get in a lot of trouble as i would definatly take it further. so tomorrow i am going to state mitigatin cirmustances i mean i am not denying it happened i can only be honest. what points in this would i need to include when im in disciplinary and what points in grievance? the company has failed me from when i first started so i feel i have a good case.

thanks for ur advice. i have to first have this disciplinary meeting friday which im not happy about as if i havent got enough on my plate! im on verge of failing uni because im having to try sort this mess out. not good. do you think i have a good case though as it seems from the beginning i have had one problem after another. i have never been in any trouble in my life and never worked for a company where i have had such much stress and trouble! i havent been happy for some time because of all these issues and they wonder why im not perfroming. i started to dread going to work because i was unahppy with the way i had been treated. its prob not al there fault but after everything that has happened you would start to feel like you have been treated unfairly and this owuld mae ypu angry. dont know anyone who has had as much hassle as i have. problem is i would have quit a lon time ago but im stuck because i need the money while im at uni and i cant afford to quit.

i really appreciate your support! i am a bit annoyed because number for hr keeps going to answerphone and i needed to talk to someone. typical really lol. i needed to sound things out as i have no idea of employment law and if i want to put in a grievance i needed to work put if they have broke any. i understand what i need to do for meeting but its appeal and grievance that im unsure of. I want to stand up for myself and show i am capable of defending myself and showin i cant be pushed around. after what i have said does anyone think i should take this further and do the know process and what i have to do as its company as a whole that ahve let me dpwn from beginning NOT just manager or line manager this is whole company.

yes i did get letter finally yesterday which i had to go pick up from store. i made to mistakes 14/12 by not taking money for something i ran through and then once on 29th when i left till open a bit while dealing with a customer. the problem is i know others are making mistakes but they have decided because i wrk frida and satyrday en though new staff have stared who work then im the one whos at fault when i know others have used my code and till. im not sayin i didnt commit because it was human error but i feel i have overwhelimg mitigating cirmunstances. the worst thing is im leaving in summer when i finsh so 5 months is not really worth them doing it! i had a bad time i was ill so dodnt know i was pregant so was a shock and then the father broke up with me and didnt come see me for three weeks because work didnt pay me i had no money to eat properly. my hormones were aall over the place i couldnt go home and see my family because of work so i was pregant and scared and alone and was very sick with morning sickness one time my housemate had to call and ambulance. since then ive been slowly trying to come to terms with my ordeal but it takes time. and then my manager eally didnt help things by saying stuff about how girls are more forcefull and sayin i should make more effort with a meber of staff when i was! after he cut hours down and i got him to reinstate them i told him all this so i thought he would understand. ever since then ive felt very senstive and my confidence is in bits. so them constantly criticise me has made things worse. i thoughtn the company would have been more understanding but they werent. problem is lot of what my manager has said is between us only. but he hasnt realised his comments have hurt me a great deal. i think he has got wrong end of stick of me i am the most caring person i have looked after my dyin father since i was ten years old! the other day i watched a programme on palestine for my class and i sat and criied at the children int he refugee camp. at work i ahve had to be strong because of the awful cusotmers we have to deal with and also because of the people i work with. and my manager has a go at me for bing strong and a bit short with people but its because after being there for so long the staff keep doing same things and not tiding up after themselves and im tired of having to do same thin every day and im sick if bein abused by customers so havent dealt with them as well as i sued to but is it surprising. i come in i work so hard and then know it and im one in major truble it beggers belief really. thanks for your comments i know what i need to say for disciplinary but i am definatley going to try and take it further i am not in trade union and also theres no meber of staff i can ask really so im on own been trying to contact hr all day without getting through its answermachne as i wanted to talk to them.

need some advice. im facing a discplinary at work and i have had no previous warning about these issues prior to this. when i first started i never had a 90 day review so never got signed up and no pay rise i was forgotten. then after 8 months i complained and they put mine up but would only backdate it for 3 months. then i have had no tarining until latest manager came and still have only been on on a training course and ive been there nearly two years. for three months they paid me wrong amount due to changing in contract so had to complain again and it was sorted. my assistant boss is a nightmare a lot of customers dislike him and he doelsnt like me he is always putitng me down and belittling me on a few occasions has shouted in front of customers. my boss once said to me that girls are a lot strogner and dont ask nicely he was basically saying because im a girl i dont ask guys we just tell them to do it which is very sexist. then i was really poorly in summer and found out i was pregant and had had a partial miscarriage. i was devasted so i had to have operation. and next day after having anesthetic i came back to work because im dedacated and didnt want to let them down because i had been signed off for fie days and didnt want disciplinary. I had stayed to work over the summer to help THEM out and after miscarriage and op my boss put me on pefrpamce plan i wnated to curl up and die i felt so bad. and they didnt pay me my full time wages for three months and so had part time and that paid my rent and phone bill and i had 20 a week to live off i was starving and then they had a go at me for being scruffy but it wasnt my fault i couldbt even afford ne wtights or a haircut! then few weeks ago out of the blue my boss says on saturday night hes reducing my hours to fit new part timers and yet i had been contracted to work those hours and i desperately needed money so i went mad and rang head of hr and my boss had to grovel and reinstate me. and now this displinary its like how else can they hurt me. i lost holiday last year and this year have haed to fight to get THREE weeks i was owed. trouble is i loved my job but after all these things and losing my child its no wonder im making mistakes and unhappy there. and ive got a full time degree i dying father helath issues stemming from the summer ive had loads of tests done could be anemic or worse because im so tired and im totally stressed. i need some advice is it because im part time and a student? or what any ideas on how to go about this.