Failed Background checks with bank

motorguy

Sounds like HR going in all heavy handed and following "process" to the letter.

The O/P's husbands explanation, the insignificance of the course relative to the job, and hopefully the hiring managers support should see common sense prevail.

As a manager i worked with used to say "people get a job here in spite of HR rather than with the aid of"...

TBagpuss

It's very unfortunate that he chose to say he passed when he couldn't remember. The obvious thing to do (especially for something non-essential) would be to say hecouldn't remember.

As it stands, it now looks as though he may have lied (which goes to his integrity and honesty) or at best that he is sloppy aboutdetails, which is probably a bit f a no-no for a banking job.

I don't see what good resigning will do him. Probably better to go to the disciplinary, apologise and explain it was a genuine mistake and that he thought he had passed, and no longer had any paperwork to check. They may decide to let it go, or to put him on probation, rather than dismissing him.

NeilCr

motorguy wrote: »

As a manager i worked with used to say "people get a job here in spite of HR rather than with the aid of"...

As someone who worked for a number of years in HR it was amazing how many managers used us as an excuse

"Of course if it was up to me but HR say this". When it was they who had asked us to get involved.....

TELLIT01

Sad to say, but I met very few people in HR who actually seemed to be of any help to management or staff. My wife did have one who fought her corner when my wife was being accused of failing to do her job, when the failings were down to her manager's incompetence and dumping work she was unable to do onto other people, my wife included.

NeilCr

Interesting the perspective.

I came across a whole range of managers - going from the bull in a china shop type who had already done the damage before HR got involved - right down to the one who had to be led by the hand and given detailed advice on every step

And quite a lot of good and very good ones too.

Personally - I tended to find that HR was squeezed between management and staff. Each happy to lay the blame on HR and, of course, quite often there was only one winner so there tended to be an aggrieved party.

TELLIT01

The worst example of a useless HR manager was many years ago when I was working in IT. We only had one person per shift, and their rest area was a small room with no natural ventilation. One of our operators absolutely stank, so the person coming in on the following shift had to find somewhere else to take their break as it took hours for the smell to reduce to a bearable level. Various people, myself included, had tried to hint to the individual and then tell him straight out but nothing happened.

We complained to the HR manager, whose reaction was "Well what do you want me to do about it", and promptly did nothing.

We needed to find some way to force his hand, so as soon as we knew Mr HR Manager was in we called him and asked him to come to the rest room urgently. We then kept out of sight, but able to see when he entered the rest room. As soon as he did, we pulled the door shut, with him trapped inside. The coughing and wretching, along with the swearing and hammering on the door, suggested that he had all the evidence required. Shortly after that the smell was addressed. :-)

sportsarb

Workplace bullying to prove a point, for shame....smh my head

NeilCr

We had much the same problem when I was a junior manager (not in HR) many years ago. I, and another manager, got it sorted. It didn't cross our minds to involve HR.

To be honest, if that's your worst case of useless HR I don't think you have done too badly.

[Deleted User]

Integrity in financial services is everything. The lie doesn't matter, its the fact they lied is the issue. Why even list a trivial course from 14 years ago if it's not relevant for the job?

Lucy987

Hi everyone,

Just a little update if anyone is interested. He had his hearing on Tuesday and was told to come back today for his decision however the lady phoned and said that the decision meeting today will need to postponed until Monday as HR are in “further discussions” about the case