total-recoil
Well-Known Member
I thought I'd share what's going on with me lately and open to any positive ideas. I already hinted a bit at this before but here is an update.
It would seem I may well be facing Christmas in a bit of a mess financially. Basically, I've been unfairly forced out of my job by a very high standing manager who evidently has some sort of a grudge. I don't know this guy but have been told by more than one person it is definitely a personality issue. The snag is I've been an agency worker for almost a year and, so far as I'm aware, agency workers can be dismissed if the company management asks the agency not to send you to work. In such a case, either the agency will defend you or (as you can imagine) quietly remove you to make life easier for all).
My agency told me they consider me to be a very good worker and that they would try and sneak me into work in the hope it would die down. I was asked to change my clothes so this manager wouldn't recognise me and not to look at any of them, just keep working. I did comply but it hasn't worked and the agency now seems to have dropped me.
Incredibly, any friends I assume I had there also seem to have given me the brush off, maybe fearful they could get caught up in any crossfire.
Anyway, the bottom line is I'm not working at the moment yet have done nothing wrong. Time-keeping was fine and my work quota also perfectly O.K. and haven't had time off for sickness. At the moment I'm really very angry and this situation has knocked me real hard. I'm not sitting around worrying but decided to just keep very busy with projects and the only time I worry a bit is sometimes waking up late in the night and dwell on it a few minutes.
I still don't know if I will make some official discrimination complaint or simply move on and do my best to find an alternative income. I believe agency workers can legally be dropped and not claim unfair dismissal but there are laws against discrimination and this I believe is definitely a case of being targeted by one high-ranking manager (he's never spoken to me). I should also add some other people have had similar issues at this company so I'm not a unique victim.
The truth is this is a pattern that so often gets repeated which is why I'd love to find a way to go self employed.
It would seem I may well be facing Christmas in a bit of a mess financially. Basically, I've been unfairly forced out of my job by a very high standing manager who evidently has some sort of a grudge. I don't know this guy but have been told by more than one person it is definitely a personality issue. The snag is I've been an agency worker for almost a year and, so far as I'm aware, agency workers can be dismissed if the company management asks the agency not to send you to work. In such a case, either the agency will defend you or (as you can imagine) quietly remove you to make life easier for all).
My agency told me they consider me to be a very good worker and that they would try and sneak me into work in the hope it would die down. I was asked to change my clothes so this manager wouldn't recognise me and not to look at any of them, just keep working. I did comply but it hasn't worked and the agency now seems to have dropped me.
Incredibly, any friends I assume I had there also seem to have given me the brush off, maybe fearful they could get caught up in any crossfire.
Anyway, the bottom line is I'm not working at the moment yet have done nothing wrong. Time-keeping was fine and my work quota also perfectly O.K. and haven't had time off for sickness. At the moment I'm really very angry and this situation has knocked me real hard. I'm not sitting around worrying but decided to just keep very busy with projects and the only time I worry a bit is sometimes waking up late in the night and dwell on it a few minutes.
I still don't know if I will make some official discrimination complaint or simply move on and do my best to find an alternative income. I believe agency workers can legally be dropped and not claim unfair dismissal but there are laws against discrimination and this I believe is definitely a case of being targeted by one high-ranking manager (he's never spoken to me). I should also add some other people have had similar issues at this company so I'm not a unique victim.
The truth is this is a pattern that so often gets repeated which is why I'd love to find a way to go self employed.