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been sacked! 1st time in 26 years.... not good

Sorry to hear this gibbo ..... Have been through it myself and won and stayed but always looking over my shoulder now ! Same age as you so now trying to do the knowledge to work for myself and tell them to stick it.
 
Sorry to heat that Gibbo. Sounds a bit of a harsh system, what happens f say you are prone to say Asthma attacks and have to have several odd days off, that would rack up the points pretty quickly.
 
Cant help but think there's more to it than your sickness! Seems an easy way to let employees go without paying redundancy pay. Be interesting to see the sickness records of the management! You not in a union?
 
Bad news matey. We have a Bradford of 100 to instigate sickness proceedings and then at manager/HR discretion so if there is mitigating circumstances (illness and relapse etc) then it can be overlooked. Most are working to three periods of short term absence in a rolling 12 month period (7 days or less in one period) as the trigger. Hope you find something soon. Like the idea of turning whistleblower or chucking a few grenades before you go but be careful and bear in mind you'll need a reference
 
Wow bad news! As earlier one moment being lined up for promotion next out the door. Never heard of this system but if it was in place at my last job half the drivers would be out the door after a couple of months!
 
G1BB0 said:
Bt engineer, Underground, overhead, exchange and broadband.... I'll find sometyhing as also got IT quals aswell

its my own fault tbh but work, siingle dad and a hard time with teens = cya
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you will mate my friend has the same type of qualifications and has worked for the lottery, sky, fire brigade, ADT, and now Virgin.

Write a good CV, get the feelers out with job sites and agencies, www.indeed.co.uk is a good website and then get some golf in just to take your mind off it for a week or two :) then find a job starting in 4 weeks and have another couple of weeks golfing. Could be the best thing ever for your game :thup:
 
Best of luck mate.
Lots of jobs out there I'm reliably told, for example Jaguar in the Midlands are after loads of engineers for their maintenance team.
No excuse for getting pumped for sick days, then again I've never heard of that Bradford thing but I guess it does ween out the ones who are playing the system.
 
mcbroon said:
I've never heard of the Bradford factor but it sounds very harsh indeed.

Crap news, G1BB0. Hope you get fixed up soon.
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I had a look at the BF last night. It actually looks like a decent system for controlling "rogue" sickness dwellers, BUT, the system falls down when arbitrary limits are put on the points people accumulate. There has to be a system for judging each individual case in place, but most companies prefer to take the decision making out of the equation and impose limits.. It's lazy management at its worst..
As I said before Gibbo, I'm sorry that you've fallen foul of this poorly administrated system..:angry:
 
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