Help - resignation, potential constructive dismissal

FBaby

Your partner seemed to have lost the trust of his boss some times ago, coming up with what he sees as lies as to why he has been off in the past. Of course, he can't prove them, but the belief has been set.

This only helped to confirm his suspicions, and frankly, he has just said, albeit in an unprofessional manner, what everyone else would have thought, because the truth is.... when you suffer from sunstroke, you are very ill there and then, but recover quite quickly so the expectations would have been that by the following morning, your partner would have been well enough to go to work, or at least, he shouldn't have automatically assumed that evening that he was bound to be too ill to do so some hours later.

The text indicates that your partner does like to have too many drinks, so the assumption that this was the reason for his feeling unwell might have some basis.

Frankly, your partner sounds unreliable and lacking dedication.

pinkshoes

Your partner needs to man up.

With rest and water he no doubt would have been fine to work Monday morning. There was no need to call in sick.

Sounds like he needs to take his employment commitment more seriously!

warby68

Both parties equally unprofessional in the text exchanges

But your partner sounds like he just thought up a 'genius' excuse for a heavy weekend and launched it. I don't know you from Adam and even I don't believe it.

He clearly has history.

We employ 'lads' who like to extend the weekend on occasion but make miraculous recoveries when offered a couple more unpaid days to fully recover. Knowing Sunday teatime you're going to be ill on Monday is about as unconvincing as it gets.

In this case the boss was STILL giving your partner a chance to redeem himself by my reading of it but instead you jointly decided he would jack it in and see if there's a claim. Good luck with that. If you're in an environment where its acceptable to call the boss 'dude' then you aren't going to get polite formality are you?

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Rebecca_Weatherburn wrote: »

Also told him that a formal resignation letter would follow by email.

So now we are looking at putting the resignation letter together and to be honest his boss' behaviour and attitude towards him and the other workers (most of which have left, my partner is the longest serving at about 3 years) is just not acceptable and that is the reason why he feels like he cannot return to work for him....

So after the mammoth story, do you think there is a starting point for looking in to constructive dismissal?

Why would it have taken nearly a week to write a resignation letter - honestly would have been better looking at 'heat of moment' resignation advice.

We're in a time when even supermarkets are now offering their part time jobs only on a 3 month FTC - compare that to this 3 years employment.

Thomas_The_Tank_Top

Working in the garden my ar5e.

Dox

Your partner sounds a wimp - don't encourage him to trade on it. Constructive dismissal? Hardly.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Is this a joke? I find it very hard to believe anyone could write all that down and not realise in writing it, even if they hadn't before, how bad it makes them look.

lytton

The responses here are predictably brutal, but the essence of the posts seem fundamentally correct. For a start, I never text a boss unless I’m on moderately to very good terms with them. Secondly I’m not sure what your partner’s field of work is but common sickness policies dictate that you merely phone first thing on the day of the shift. If the illness is patently self inflicted it’s not a good start; you’d be expected as an adult to gauge how much to exert yourself when doing physical work. It would have looked less unreasonable if your partner sustained a specific physical injury that was unavoidable. If a car hits me and snaps my leg then I probably have no need to make excuses, if I run a marathon with no training and then make myself ill then I’ve not made a particularly sensible set of choices. Personally I’d be looking to make a fresh start; job applications left right and centre, spray and pray essentially. I’d also avoid texting my boss in the future unless they’re very pally and I’m generally regarded as an asset to the team.

Ozzuk

You just need to state you are resigning, and depending on your notice period what your last day will be. No point in anything else based on what you've said.

Red-Squirrel_2

nicechap wrote: »

What temperature did your partner measure he had to establish he had heatstroke?

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heat-exhaustion-heatstroke/

After 30 mins rest and some re-hydration he should have been OK so fine to go to work the next day.

Absolutely no chance of constructive dismissal based on the info in the OP.

If he did indeed have heatstroke he should have some paperwork from A&E to prove he was treated for it.

Does he?

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