Advice for my son who has been sacked

KatrinaWaves

Honestly you are reaching so far...

Let’s just say for a second that reasonable adjustments for a mental health disability would be using your phone to check for text updates about your neighbour, let’s just assume that. What should have happened is that he tells his employer and they allow him to check his phone at reasonable intervals or they have it and let him know if it goes off. It does not, in any situation, involve using ‘toilet breaks’ to go get your phone to check, taking more time away from work than necessary without allowing the employer to make an adjustment.

Manxman_in_exile

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

Conflating checking your phone at work with mental health is pointless as the two are not related.

Personally I think checking your 'phone constantly is indicative of a mental health problem...

Undervalued

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Personally I think checking your 'phone constantly is indicative of a mental health problem...

In which case it is a problem that afflicts 90% or more of those under 40 (and many others too)!

DCFC79

muffintop885 wrote: »

I really empathise with you being dismissed is just horrible

I have similar situation but been long time since on this site. Could mod remind me how to start my thread pls

There are no mods.


Look for new reply button on the main page, maybe near the top.

DCFC79

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Personally I think checking your 'phone constantly is indicative of a mental health problem...

Not a mental health problem, you should try asking the young uns eg early twenties to put the phone when at work, all you get is a smile, its like the phone is glued to the hand.

Jobhunt

Sounds a toxic atmosphere honestly . He needs to look for a new job.

lincroft1710

Jobhunt wrote: »

Sounds a toxic atmosphere honestly . He needs to look for a new job.

As he has been sacked, I would hope that is what he's doing

motorguy

Jobhunt wrote: »

Sounds a toxic atmosphere honestly . He needs to look for a new job.

Quite possibly of his own creation.

I'd love to hear the employers side of it.

motorguy

Jsacker wrote: »

If we assume that the son is disabled here, what reasonable adjustments were offered? The neighbour's troubles seem to have affected their mental health, and yet they weren't allowed to have their phone on (and that isn't the worst of it*). I don't see any reasonable adjustments there?



(*)The part of the Ts/Cs which the poster quoted make phone usage in the toilet very vague in that it was probably ok. It sort of sucks that they have < 2 years' employment in that respect.



I didn't conflate it, the son seems to have been bothered about the wellbeing of their neighbour. Worrying about someone else seems, to me at least, like it could affect mental health.

With respect, you're making massive leaps here - you're assuming the son can be categorised as disabled because they're depressed (thus half the UK probably have fallen in to that category at some point - myself included) and that this mental illness left them unable to comprehend that they werent allowed to use their mobile phone on or around the call centre floor, even when repeatedly reminded about it. It seems odd they can otherwise function, just not be able to grasp that simple rule.

I think the O/P needs to have a quiet word with their son about his work ethic, and between them work on getting the son another job and not have him make the same mistakes again.

Attempting to pursue this is a distraction away from focussing on getting another job.

Totally totally typical these days anyway - noone takes ownership of their own mistakes. Theres always someone else whos to blame.

motorguy

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

Honestly you are reaching so far...

Let’s just say for a second that reasonable adjustments for a mental health disability would be using your phone to check for text updates about your neighbour, let’s just assume that. What should have happened is that he tells his employer and they allow him to check his phone at reasonable intervals or they have it and let him know if it goes off. It does not, in any situation, involve using ‘toilet breaks’ to go get your phone to check, taking more time away from work than necessary without allowing the employer to make an adjustment.

Agreed. Totally.