Into the mind of fords…

I am now in employment limbo.

As many of you will know, I wasn’t happy in my job.  Before I went off with stress for three months my job just wasn’t interesting to me any more for many factors I can’t be arsed going into and when I came back I was looking forward to a clean start.  Unfortunately nothing had changed and I was feeling just as stressed as before.  So, I thought, I’ll call a meeting with HR and see what can be done.  I was prepared to maybe take on a less stressful role in the company as it’s not a bad one to work for but if not I thought I’d look for another job.

So we had the meeting on Friday.

Instead of asking me what I wanted to discuss, HR went into a list of why the company wasn’t happy with me and that they wanted to terminate my employment.  Why? I asked, obviously concerned at this.  Well, HR said, you’re obviously not coping with the work just now and there are some issues your colleagues have with you.  HR then launches into some really fucking weird excuses as to why people are unhappy with me – for example, apparently I refuse to help people, refuse to do certain parts of my job and play games all day.  Oh, and I lie about what’s wrong with me when I’m off sick.

What a pile of shit! Sometimes I do more work for other people than I do for my own department, I never play games at work (although I’d like to) and when I was off sick I didn’t know what was wrong with me until I went to the doctor.  But hey, as I said to HR it’s only my word against someone else’s and who are they gonna believe? They then offered me what they call a compromise agreement – basically, they give me a pittance of a payoff and ask me to go quietly, i.e. not take them to a tribunal or sue them.  Fuck that.   The agreement doesn’t even say why they want rid of me.  Fishy, no?

I also asked for the details of that meeting to be put into writing and they refused.  I was also told verbally that yes it is an unfair dismissal but surprise surprise that isn’t going to be put into writing either.  Although my other half did listen in on the call, I dunno how that would stand up as evidence.

Basically I think they’re taking the piss.  As far as I can see they’re just trying to get rid of me for whatever reason.  And what is stranger is that in my time there two people have been mysteriously sacked, although they were in another department.  I feel I’ve never really fitted in there so am not too angry at not working there any more but for them to do what they have done is plain wrong in my view.