Suspended from work during probation period due to attend disciplinary

tommyb32

On Monday I was suspended from work due to a fairly serious error I made. Yesterday I had an investigation meeting and today received a letter inviting me to a disciplinary meeting on Friday.

I am currently 10 months into a 12 month probation period with the company.

I have openly admitted to the mistake, which I would assume cost the company around £2000.

I am fairly sure that I will be dismissed on Friday on grounds of what they say will be gross misconduct.

Should I hand in my resignation prior to this meeting, or will that reflect on me just as badly, or should I just take the punishment on the chin and move on?

As I am still on probation, I realise I have very few rights!!

:(:(:(

Shazza122

Don't know what to advise you but just wanted to say I've just been through something similar (although at no cost to company) so I know what your going through.

Good luck.

alexpg_2

Is there much in the way of impact on you if you're sacked or if you resigned? You'll presumably have to explain why you left the job in future job interviews anyway.

I'd personally hang in their and hope that they're sympathetic towards you, and possibly keep you on with an extended probation period.

Without knowing the nature of what you did, have you got any defence? Was the training they provided for you adequate? Should there have been better supervision? Were there any mitigating circumstances?

pmlindyloo

tommyb32 wrote: »

On Monday I was suspended from work due to a fairly serious error I made. Yesterday I had an investigation meeting and today received a letter inviting me to a disciplinary meeting on Friday.

I am currently 10 months into a 12 month probation period with the company.

I have openly admitted to the mistake, which I would assume cost the company around £2000.

I am fairly sure that I will be dismissed on Friday on grounds of what they say will be gross misconduct.

Should I hand in my resignation prior to this meeting, or will that reflect on me just as badly, or should I just take the punishment on the chin and move on?

As I am still on probation, I realise I have very few rights!!

:(:(:(

It's not the fact that you are on probation that you have few 'rights' - just that you have not worked there for 2 years. Unless it is an automatically unfair dismissal then they can dismiss you fairly easily.

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3733

To be honest it is difficult to advise you as to what to do without knowing the mistake you have made. You say you admit it but could it have been avoided if you had had more training (for example.)

If you would like to share please do.

Without knowing the details no one can tell you what to do. You really have to wait until the disciplinary hearing and see what they say.

Are you a member of a union? Who are you taking with you to the meeting?

You may be able to negotiate that if they are going to dismiss you they would accept your resignation and give you a reference which does not refer to the 'incident'. All about negotiation really and depends on the 'mistake'.

tommyb32

Thanks for your replies. The mistake I made was that I basically did not order in a product that goes into one of their production lines and the line therefore had to stop for around 48 hours and therefore losing the company money.
I told my boss abo ut the problem but apparently I should have told senior management. I have openly admitted that it was my mistake.

getmore4less

Are there no processes in place to stop this happening or for others to spot that an order may not have happened.

Is it documented the process of notifications of serious issues like this(things that stop production), if you informed your boss what did they do, did they not know you should have informed senior management.

How did the order failure happen back to the processes for ordering.

how was the notification done?

agrinnall

I don't think resigning would be sensible in this situation. If the worst does happen and you are dismissed I don't think it would be significantly different to resigning while under investigation for GM. And they might apply a lesser sanction than dismissal, in which case you'll still have a job.

Shazza122

If you resign they can still put 'resigned pending disciplinary action' on your reference unfortunately.

keyser666

alexpg wrote: »

Is there much in the way of impact on you if you're sacked or if you resigned? You'll presumably have to explain why you left the job in future job interviews anyway.

probably get away with not mentioning it on the CV being there such a short time.

OP as asked are there any processes in place to prevent this happening? Why didnt your boss mention it or at least direct you what to do?