Professional Registration

samwich1979

SarEl wrote: »

Then don't. I am deeply concerned that I do not get a sense of the fact that you are going to tell the truth to your employers. people here actually really do understand that your situation is bad. from what you have said you have little or no money, debts, have lost you home and your husband is unemployed. This is usually the bit where "tea and sympathy and it can't get any worse..." comes in. But in this case it can get a lot worse, and simply because people are telling you that doesn't mean for one instance that they are against you.

Regardless of how you explain it, and how bad your circumstances are, you cannot blame your professional association. You have a legal agreement for the payment of your fees and you did not honour it. So they were entitled to suspend or cancel that registration from the moment your payment failed - it isn't their responsibility to know where you live when you move withouit telling them, or to tell you what happened - you shoul have known. If you check your bank statements you know what has been paid and what hasn't. And since failed payments generally carry a bank fee, your bank will have both informed you and charged you for this. I am really not saying this to be spiteful - but this is your responsibility and sticking your head in the sand and blaming someone else isn't going to help at all.

Unless your association agree to reinstate your registration, which I doubt they will do unless you pay them what you owe, then you must tell your employers no matter how annoyed they will be. You are just going to have to deal with that - you cannot entirely blame them since they think they are employing someone who can do certain work because they are registered, and that person, for whatever reason isn't! It isn't entirely surprising that they might be annoyed. They will be significantly more annoyed if they find out that the unregistered someone has lied to them, put them at risk, and acted both unprofessionally and without any due care for the trust that they place in them. No matter how hard things are for you, you know this. You know it because this is your profession. Do not take risks with it. At the moment, you can blame "baby-head" for being forgetful - they don't need to know all the in's amd out's, just the simple fact that you "forgot" - or if they know your registration dates, which they probably do, that you "forgot" the money was being taken out of your account and to put some money in there for it. In the great scheme of things it's the truth with a little white lie - they don't need to know about your personal circumstances if you don't want them to.

But you do have to tell them the truth - it is neither acceptable to lie, or to lie by ommission.

Rang work yesterday morning and told the boss about my registration.

He was fine and just told me to get it sorted ASAP but still come to work on Monday and they will find me something to do until ive been re-registered.

I will lose pay but not much i can do about that now, just have to get on with it.

Feel so much better now, thanks for all your advice.

persa

samwich1979 wrote: »

Rang work yesterday morning and told the boss about my registration.

He was fine and just told me to get it sorted ASAP but still come to work on Monday and they will find me something to do until ive been re-registered.

I will lose pay but not much i can do about that now, just have to get on with it.

Feel so much better now, thanks for all your advice.

Not nearly as bad as you feared! So glad for you, well done for not letting the crazy thoughts win!