interesting emails

[jackieandwayne]

Good luck Zoe, don't give up. I'm not allowed to speak about my case, but I will share something rather naughty I did before it all kicked off, and one of my poor colleagues was in the teeth of a bully! Its very naughty by the way but I don;t regret it.

 

My colleague was being set up for the sack by our line manager. I saw it coming, and actually caught the line manager out in falsifying documents to make a case to have my colleague sacked. I too was suffering at her hands, but not quite full on yet, she could only deal with one of us at a time. I regret now very much that I didn'lt report her for what I cauight her doing. Anyway a couple of weeks further on, the silly mare must have been working at my desk when I had a day off, and she left her notebook (in which she recorded EVERYTHING and it generally never left her side) there. I came in at the crack of dawn the next day and found it. Of course I read it, I was preparing for my own fight which I knew was coming next. It gave me some very useful information. It also proved that this manager had, many weeks prior, made a lovely little plan to oust my colleague from her job, she even had the replacement named! There it all was, the fully detailed plan. It even showed savings by employing someone to her position on a much lower salary!, Oh dear! I picked the thing up, and I posted it to my colleague who was by now suspended and trying to fight certain allegations. It certainly helped in that my colleague had decided she was so disgusted with the firm she had been loyal to for 12 years that she would never go back. She wanted to go through the appeal etc but didn;t even have to bother as she got a compromise agreement instead! Because of what she received in the post. What was in that notebook threw up all manner of employment issues.

 

I was pleased to help my colleague, I felt bad because I hadn't spoken up immediately when I should have done. I was overcome with glee to see this awful woman alternate between fits of sobbing, periods of steam almost coming out her ears, and trying to coerce people into telling her "what they knew"! That was the best bit, nobody but me knew and she obviously couldn't remember where she had left that book! She got into awful trouble but sadly they kept her on, under supervision for 12 weeks. I even managed to say to her with a poker face "what a dreadful thing to happen to you!". It was dreadful and she deserved it.

 

Hang on to those documents and the very best of luck x

[jackieandwayne]

Its very common practice for a "confidentiality clause" to be signed when there is an out of court settlement. This means that you cannot discuss what has happened to you because you have agreed not to say.

 

But in your case, so long as you say nothing that is untrue, slanderous or libelous, there's no problem in you posting on here. No need to openly disclose who the company is etc., but you are perfectly entitled to seek advice when these things happen and if that is on a forum like CAG then so be it. Be aware that employers can watch these threads too, so if you get to the stage where things get a bit contentious, then you wouldn't want to risk them reading all your tactics on here. I shouldn't say anything about CAG to anyone to do with this matter; and in any case, how many Zoe's might there be at anyone time seeking advice for employment problems?!

 

Also, I may well have reason to be grinning right now, but it took me three years of being genuinely ill, having a year on benefits (oh joy) which inlcuded the bloody ATOS shambles, I have PTSD for the rest of my life....................so please don;t be thinking its an easy road, its not, but if you have the determination that you seem to have Zoe, and you have genuinely been wronged, then you go ahead and fight it.

 

A word of warning too - don;t anyone rely on their Union for help with this sort of thing. See a solicitor straight away.

 

You keep going, and I'll keep reading!