Placed on Garden Leave - can i got to the Xmas party?

getmore4less

If garden leave was standard practice and there was a standard resignation I would have no issue going to a company offsite social event.

It is upto the company to set the boundaries of garden leave.

You are still an employee and all standard procedures are in place unless otherwise stated.

if the only thing they have said is no need to come into the office and you asked about the event and have had no response either way just turn up.

I would arrange to arrive as a group with others, if it is with guest even better.

if a seated event and you know the tables people from your table.

TELLIT01

There is certainly a risk if attending a business event in these circumstances. As has been said, you could be refused entry or asked to leave if/when you are noticed by management. If it is a seated event you could have the embarrassing situation of finding you don't have a seat for the meal.
I would stay away.

getmore4less

This is a big event chances at they won't care or even notice unless they are a high up.

Could be this is not normal practice and the manager are acting outside their authority.

Undervalued

getmore4less wrote: »

If garden leave was standard practice and there was a standard resignation I would have no issue going to a company offsite social event.

It is upto the company to set the boundaries of garden leave.

You are still an employee and all standard procedures are in place unless otherwise stated.

if the only thing they have said is no need to come into the office and you asked about the event and have had no response either way just turn up.

I would arrange to arrive as a group with others, if it is with guest even better.

if a seated event and you know the tables people from your table.

Sorry but I totally disagree.

The company is choosing to pay the OP's salary in full and not get any work at all in return. He was "escorted off site" so for whatever reason, be it personal or general policy, they do not want him interacting with their remaining staff. That is their privilege, they are paying handsomely for it and the OP is getting the benefit of weeks (perhaps months) of paid holiday. It would be madness to rock the boat without specific authorisation.

The OP said he has asked his manager but they have not replied. If going to the party really is that important to him then maybe ask, politely, once more. However unless there is a positive and genuinely welcoming response I would stay well away.

robatwork

No, you should be in the garden at all times.

If this happened to me I would rather spend an evening alone in my garden than surrounded by former colleagues and managers who I have just let down.

Bogalot

getmore4less wrote: »

If garden leave was standard practice and there was a standard resignation I would have no issue going to a company offsite social event.

It is upto the company to set the boundaries of garden leave.

You are still an employee and all standard procedures are in place unless otherwise stated.

if the only thing they have said is no need to come into the office and you asked about the event and have had no response either way just turn up.

I would arrange to arrive as a group with others, if it is with guest even better.

if a seated event and you know the tables people from your table.

Asking others to arrive with the OP is putting the colleagues in a really difficult position. If they say no to the OP they're going to feel bad, if they say yes in the knowledge that the OP may not have permission to be there, that potentially puts them in trouble at work.

It's not worth the hassle.

If these people are genuine friends there will be plenty of opportunity to see them elsewhere. If they're simply work colleagues then they're no longer your colleagues, no real loss.

Spendless

Who is paying for the Christmas night out? If it's your employer, it's probably best not to go.

If someone in the office has organised it, you've all paid for the meal yourself and it's an 'unofficial' event, it's down to the party organiser (who might ask the bosses their opinion on it).

I guess it's more likely to be the former due to the amount going.

[Deleted User]

RosaO wrote: »

My Xmas party is tomorrow night, it is offsite and is a big do with over 1000 people going.

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Did you pay anything towards the event?

I've left a job recently and within days there was an employee contributed festive event - there was no mention I was to go from the moment notice went in (and that was with a possible contribution towards it) so I'd vote no.

Years ago when I landed up unemployed (I was v young) I remember accepting an invite to attend the traditional xmas party as I'd put 10 months in as the apprentice, however, it just left sadness if I'm being honest. (and those were the days I'd have been underage to drink without even the type of issue that could create!) You may get drunk and then vent you're spleen at being on garden leave = poor reference.

You leave a job - you are no longer on the same side. You have already escaped, potentially, much misery by being on garden leave I'd have thought. (some places get nasty)

nimbo

RosaO wrote: »

I was placed on garden leave on Wednesday immediately after handing my notice in. Nothing was given to me in writing, I was just told by my manager then escorted off site.

I haven't had any contact from my employer since.
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Call me paranoid but - who escorted you off site? The boss who is. Of your biggest fan?

And are you aware of higher ups are aware you're on gardening leave?

You haven't actually said if it's standard in your office / line of work. Have they done it or get you in bother?

I would probably still want to go to the do as I personally feel that a leaving do is important. but I would call my bosses boss to double check this.

Hope you are well 😄

aife

Have you heard anything from any of your ex colleagues since you left ?
Being put on gardening leave doesn't automatically suggest any ill feeling but being escorted off the premises when you resigned of your own volition seems odd to me . I would want nothing to do with people that treated me like that.
Unless you are planning on availing yourself of some free drinks and telling them all what you think.
In which case it depends on whether or not you need them at all- do you need a reference ? And have you actually already received the monies you are due ?