Help lost work keys

korvskrot

Urgh, I'll tell you a little story that might make you at least feel that it could have been worse. I am the full on idiot throughout the story.

Brought my work keys with me to meet a friend, in my hand bag with my work phone and £1200 cash (work's money). Naturally, my own belongings were also in the bag - the normal day to day stuff.

Bag got stolen.

I can't tell you exactly what the keys were for, but replacing the physical bits was... £1100 (reduced to £750 because the locksmith felt sorry for me) £40 for padlocks, a massive hassle to replace electricity key from e.on and then the general chaos of getting a phone up and running and communicating the new number to the approx 75 people I communicated with on daily/weekly basis.

So, the cost for my company was about £2000, lots of lag in work flow due to the phones and electricity.

I ended up not having to pay for a thing and kept my job, but man, did I feel awful. Even luckier for me, one of our clients tipped me £100 "to get myself lunch" and I could go to argos and get myself a new smartphone.

In all honesty I suspect my boss paid the losses out of pocket. I started wearing cross-body bags for cash, and had my keys on a chain in my jeans after this.

My main tip for you here is to go to a locksmith and see if you can get a nice deal on a lock replacement. Best of luck to you, hope it blows over quick, and that a lesson is learned.

iammumtoone

fishfinger1 wrote: »

Ok guys so here's a little update on my situation. I didnt manage to find the keys in the end so I got called in for a disciplinary last Friday. Today I have just received a final written warning for what they consider gross misconduct. The cost of having the locks changed was £273. Now I accept that I am going to have to pay that. But with my final written warning they have said they are going to take £54.70 each week out of my wages which I haven't consented to. So my question is? Is that legal bare in my I have a young family to support

Does the reduction take you to under NLW?

CIS

Not perfect but something like this can help - https://www.thetileapp.com/en-gb/