Gross Misconduct

[ericsbrother]

It will depend partly on what the GM was. If it is anything to do with honesty then it will be hard to avoid. If it is a health and Safety matter then you could offer the suggestion that more training would have help prevent the problem and if it is personal matters then your appeal reasoning will explain itself. If I was employing someone who had been dismissed by their previous employer I would be looking at what i would need to do to manage that person effectively. Matters of honesty would be where I would take some convincing that I wasnt making future problems for myself

[RXQueen]

The GM is for comments on social media. I am appealing as whilst the co have a social media policy it does not cover social media outside of work. They claim to have a policy for this but it does not exist.

[RXQueen]

Also they brought up an off the record chat about a Facebook comment posted on my profile by a friend regarding them from 5 years ago. Are they allowed to do this? It was off record & dealt with at the time

[honeybee13]

RX, it might help the people trying to advise you if you post up a link to your previous thread.

 

HB

[Emmzzi]

If at the time you said you would never get involved in that sort of thing again.....

[ims21]

Three threads merged...please keep to one thread for this employment issue

[RXQueen]

Thank you for merging.

 

In reply to emmzzi, the Facebook comment was not made by me but it appeared on my timeline

[renegadeimp]

Were you tagged in it? if so then you can clearly show you are innocent as someone else clearly wrote it. However, posts wont appear on your timeline unless you are tagged, or you put it there yourself.

[Emmzzi]

You may not have written it but it shows you were told of the policy?