can someone help me?
My bullshit alarm was sounded yesterday by an old friend, and i wanted some thoughts.
He's a maintenance guy for a small student halls thing, it's a small team, him, manager and assistant manager. 95% of residents are students.
Through a long and drawn out set of events, he came accross an email chain between his manager and the previous manager (who had told him on her last day that she hated him and that he made her sick and ruined her life, big HR complaint, she got moved to another department) all about how much they both hate him, and they were going to get him fired and how easy it would be after they got the last 2 maintenance guys fired.
He told HR, and then he was told not to come in for a week while they sort it out. Surely, if all this was true, the manager would be suspended and he would still work?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:29, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

general rule of HR/employment law
they already know whom they want to keep and whom they want to lose...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:31, Reply)

^ this ^

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:32, Reply)

so, chances are he's going to be out of a job at the end of the week?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:35, Reply)

I hope he kept the email chain with the headers on it to prove they're genuine.
Because if he did he's got a pretty good case for constructive dismissal. If not he's fucked.
( Kroney, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:38, Reply)

he emailed the whole chain to himself and forwarded it to the area manager and HR woman.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:40, Reply)

For future reference, it's better to open a new email
copy the offending chain and insert as an attachment. Makes it easier to access the meta data that tells you which IPs processed the forwards etc.

Otherwise it's way too easy to say "oh, he just changed the names in the email chain".
( Kroney, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:42, Reply)

fair enough,
i'l remember that.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:44, Reply)

that's pretty shocking
Maybe they are trying to protect the manager. He should threaten to sue unless apopropriate steps are taken asap
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:31, Reply)

this is it,
he seems pretty chill about it all, but he's also the sort of guy that would lie to save face if he'd been fired.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:41, Reply)

At my place they usually suspend the person being complained about.

( Kroney, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:32, Reply)

he says, from his sofa

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:32, Reply)

I've been complained about loads of times
and not been suspended or investigated once. IT managers assume, usually correctly, that anybody complaining about IT is just tantruming because they really really really really really wanted access to YouTube and we said no.
( Kroney, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:35, Reply)

You think there might be a job opportunity for you there?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:42, Reply)

well, if he gets fired, a cushty maintenance job in a student halls would suit me for a bit yeah.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:45, Reply)

but working for cunts though, by the sound of it

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 19 Sep 2013, 10:48, Reply)