Suspended from work - I've seen colleagues and customers what I have done

lucylucky

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

Excuse me! I will explain my redundancies to you

1. Call centre closed - 150 job losses. I was only there for 8 months
2. Dept closed down in call centre - 20 jobs loss. I was there for 10 months.
3. The last wasn't a redundancy as such, but the job centre allowed me to sign on. I took on doing maternity cover. Someone did the first 2 months before getting perm work elsewhere. Was contracted for 10 months. 4 months into the job on a Friday, the woman who I was covering phoned the boss and said she would be returning back to work on Monday! She was planning to have a year off. I was working at head office. The boss frantically phoned every dept he could think of asking if they need anyone to do any admin work or in the case of the call centre depts if they have a space at any training group starting within 2 weeks. No-one needed anyone and had no job.

I have just been unlucky.

Indeed. Being caught defrauding your employer is very unlucky.;)

L-Jay

For what it's worth, my opinion - as a Union Rep and as someone who has been suspended twice. Once I was dismissed for GM, last year I was reinstated and the suspension was wiped from my record. I was much older and wiser and knew how to fight back!

If you only take one bit of advice from this thread then it's to hold your hands up and admit you messed up. Explain that you can only apologise for a series of ill-judged decisions, see if your UR can fight for a probationary period with a final written warning removed after a period of blemish free conduct.

I've represented many people, including myself, and the thing that is most likely to get your employers back up is trying to wriggle out and not taking responsibility.

I expect you have contacted colleagues, it's not a criticism, most people do - I did! Just be very careful what you say, when it's backs against the wall time most people will do ANYTHING to save themselves. You should know this as when it came to it you dropped your colleagues in it to save yourself - again not a criticism just a sad fact.

Try to stay positive, one way or another this will pass and you learn from it and move on.

Good Luck

lucylucky

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

By Thursday, the invistigation date I will have written some points after the UR read it through beforehand and will apologise, recognise my actions were wrong. My UR will contact a senior rep as she has never heard of this going to investigation and asking if my visual problems and dyslexia could help me.

There are colleagues with worse eyesight than me at work - working at different depts as well as checkouts. One of the checkout operators was investigated and she has bad eyesight - it was done before I started work. I don't know what happened and her punishment was, but she is still working. I cannot find out as not allowed to talk to any colleagues.

So how do you know this happened? Here-say?

Totally irrelevant anyway

jumpycheese1

shegirl wrote: »

You still seem to think they can't cope without you fgs

Look,you may be the only one 'trained' to work on ss tills but who does most of the stuff on ss tills in most supermarkets...wait for it...the untrained customer...so if an untrained customer can use one I'm pretty sure it doesn't take much training to swipe a bloody card through it to authorise things etc which is what staff commonly do!!!

Jesus Jumpy,you work on a TILL!

Someone has to be there to approve age restricted items, manually put in vouchers if they don't scan (which is 90% of them) and approve bags if a customer plonks a bag which has stuff in already as the tills don't like that and helping customers who don't know how to weigh loose veg etc.

dmg24

You still have not explained why, if you knew that you had a problem with these tills, you chose to use them? How is the keypad laid out on the screen?

jumpycheese1

lucylucky wrote: »

So how do you know this happened? Here-say?

Totally irrelevant anyway

The problem was resolved about a week before I started and remember colleagues talking to her about how was she and pleased she didn't get the sack.

shegirl

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

Someone has to be there to approve age restricted items, manually put in vouchers if they don't scan (which is 90% of them) and approve bags if a customer plonks a bag which has stuff in already as the tills don't like that and helping customers who don't know how to weigh loose veg etc.

Yes,all basic stuff that the workers do in seconds.Scanning something quickly,swiping their authorisation card through,putting a number in...hardly rocket science is it!

Do you honestly think that is such a specific skill that you would be hard to replace?Seriously:rotfl:

steve1980

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

The boss frantically phoned every dept he could think of asking if they need anyone to do any admin work or in the case of the call centre depts if they have a space at any training group starting within 2 weeks.

Because you were quite clearly over qualified for every job you've had??

Look, you've messed up, been caught out, you will more than likely lose your job over this, supermarket S will have to close down because theycan't cope without you, all you're "friends" will also be out of work, you'll all be down the job centre the following day claiming Jobseekers Allowance which the Taxpayer will have to cover.

Maybe my 12 hour shift work and 2 hour travelling every day isn't as bad as I thought. Oh, and if I left the department wouldn't be able to run as it would only leave 3 people to do 4 shifts!

Hootie19

So I'm confused now!

Jumpy - are you saying that you are trained to supervise on these self service tills, but that your eye problem prevents you from using them properly as you are likely to press wrong buttons on them?

And if you are the only person who is trained to supervise, then are these checkouts closed down when you are not at work, due to there being no one else capable of supervising them?

Or do you work every hour that the store is open, every day it is open?

jumpycheese1

dmg24 wrote: »

You still have not explained why, if you knew that you had a problem with these tills, you chose to use them? How is the keypad laid out on the screen?

I had to do some shopping today and visited another store. I looked at the manned tills (I went through one today) and the number pad goes

123
456
789

The touch keypad on the ss tills go

789
456
123

This may sound like an excuse. As I walk home I use up to three bags to distribute the weight or use a seperate bag for cold stuff, cleaning products etc. The 9 and 3 are in the same place on both tills. The list that has my transactions has the price of each transaction.

But I cannot use this when I spent £3!

At home I am forever getting my numbers mixed up because I have items that both have 789 and 123 on the top row of numbers.