Getting cleared of serious allegations should feel like closure, not the beginning of a slower, even more painful exit.
One employee returned to work after a 3-month suspension with the gross misconduct charges dropped, though the company still tacked on an official warning just to save face.
A month later, he got called into a meeting room with HR and the very manager who’d originally signed off on those charges, now conveniently bumped into a new role above him.
What started as vague redundancy talk quickly turned into an off-the-record offer: either a redundancy package worth nothing thanks to his short tenure with the parent company, or a settlement sweetened with an extra month’s pay.
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You couldn’t make it up – here we go again
So, I returned to work after my 3-month suspension, all charges of gross misconduct dropped, but with an official warning on my record due to my perceived misconduct at slagging the company off (they couldn’t drop it completely, they’re trying to save face).
But the drama was far from over.
A month later, last Monday afternoon, my new line manager (the old one who decided that these charges were valid and determined which were gross misconduct had been promoted sideways) asks me to join him upstairs.
I knew straight away that something was up, as a few hours earlier the parent company HR lady had walked through the office and greeted us all.
The same HR lady soon told him just how dire his employment...
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