Ray
Jones started working for MFI Ltd on the 25th June 2001 - he
was interviewed & taken on by the General Manager himself - Click here to see the letter
Ray was already employed by another company when he had the
interview & he was asked to start straight away because the
lodge had been 2 men down for several months..
Ray's entire complaint centers around his Supervisor who was also
given the job of Health & Safety Officer by the General
Manager, the final part of the bullying campaign was carried out
by the higher management & CEO of the company who fully
support workplace bullying & those who commit this atrocious
crime!!
These are the
first concerns Ray had about his Supervisors incompetence
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Ray
only received 3 days training for a job that is very complex,
he was never
shown around outside of the lodge
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Ray found out
where the First Aid Office was when a worker who had split his
head open was sent to Ray for treatment - the injured worker
had to show Ray the First Aid Office
The other guards all received 2 weeks each before manning the
lodge on their own
The red circle
contains a message from the supervisor saying "good
training as always" - one of the guards had trained the
new guard up - not the supervisor. The date is 03/03/02 - 3
days after Ray's disciplinary where he complained about lack
of training. The supervisor put a star next to it to wind Ray
up - later on, the supervisor asked the guard who did the
training for his notes because he was leaving - the supervisor
did not have a clue how to do the job!!
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The Supervisor
would not speak to Ray face to face, instead, if Ray had made
a mistake due to lack of training, the Supervisor would tell
Ray's brother (another guard) to have a word with Ray about
it.
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The Supervisor
told Ray it was none of his business when he asked what the
companies annual losses due to theft were.
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Ray's contract
stated that he was entitled to overtime but the supervisor
said his contract didn't apply to him because he was security
so he never got overtime - when he signed his second contract,
the overtime pay entitlement had been withdrawn without notice
Contract 1 & Contract 2.
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Ray's contract
also stated that he must take his holidays during shutdown
& that he was entitled to take off any statutory holidays
- but Ray had to work these because he was classed as security
& again, he was told by his supervisor that his contract
didn't apply to him.
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Ray was told
he would be taken on permanently after 6 months employment by
his Supervisor - this never happened (the new guards who
started after Ray were told that they would also be taken on
after 6 months by the Supervisor even though he knew he was
lying). It is important to point out here that the company
have left themselves wide open to theft by taking on
'Temporary Guards' - Security have access to every part of
every building, they know all of the companies secrets &
are left on the site alone - if you knew you weren't going to
be taken on permanently & you wanted to sabotage the
company - your temporary status means the company are not
committed to you so why should you be committed to the
company? Taking on Temporary workers does save the company
money but it could end up costing them more in the future -
Ray was the very first temporary guard..
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One of the
other guards (who will be known as Guard3 from now on as he
was one of the supervisors puppets) was doing all of the
lodges rotas, fixing them to fit around his & his wife's
jobs
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& then one
of the more serious issues - the Supervisor was allowing a 12
year old girl to wait for her father (a manager) in the lodge
- this would not be so bad but the Supervisor was leaving
goodie bags (sweets, crisps & fizzy drinks) for her behind
the counter - she was swapping the keys round on the hooks,
fiddling with the CCTV operating system so it never focused on
what it should have been, dropping crisps all over the floor,
she spilt her lemonade all over the CCTV operating system
& she tripped over a heater that had been left in a
passage way by the Supervisor (also H & S Officer) - Also,
from where she was sitting, she could see pornographic
pictures in the back room.. The Supervisor would leave her
behind the counter with a lone guard when he went off shift
& she witnessed part of the disgraceful verbal attack on
Ray (we come to that later with the tape recording) |
Ray put up with
all of this because he enjoyed his job - he only saw the
Supervisor when he relieved him after his day shift so he put up
with it & he got on with his job.
Ray was warned by his colleagues that their Supervisor was a bully
- they told him never to complain about the rota & to watch
everything that was said to the Supervisor as he would take
everything you say & twist it in to a personal attack on
himself. Ray was told that if the Supervisor didn't like you, he
would start circling your work in the handover books & setting
you up by leaving cryptic orders in the book - then the guards
would be disciplined and get a final warning for nothing - they
would then be told by the supervisor that they could either walk
or face being sacked - why?? Because the Supervisor had decided
that he personally did not like them so they had to go, even if
there was nothing wrong with their work - this example was written
by a guard who was bullied out of his job months before Ray
started - he also complained to the General Manager about his
supervisor but nothing was done
Then, several things occurred that could not be ignored
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His supervisor
was being given extra duties by the general manager - the
supervisor, instead of carrying out these duties, decided to
give the extra duties to the guards who were already
overloaded with other peoples work
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The
first message says that the General Manager had put the
Supervisor in charge of the company's pool vehicles -
the second message says that the General Manager had put the
supervisor in charge of Health & Safety for the lodge -
later on that day, the supervisor puts Ray in charge of the
pool cars "Ray in charge of pool cars" - he had only
just started his job..
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The company
did not pay the guards overtime - they got time back instead -
because guards kept leaving they were always a man down so Ray
was forced to cover 4 men's time back the minute he started -
This left him with shifts that were making him fear for his
life & that of other road users because he was so tired
& was not allowed to take a break from his desk during his
shifts (a mixture of 8, 12 & 13 hour shifts) - This left
him unable to eat in work & facing an hours drive to &
from work after doing 15 of these shifts on the run. Ray spoke
to his supervisor about it because he couldn't find any rotas
from the past that were as bad as the ones he was getting, the
Supervisor took the rotas off guard3 & started doing them
himself although this version of events will be disputed by
the supervisor later on - the supervisor 'went off' Ray
because he now had to do some work or Ray would 'Rock the
Boat'. Click here for the rotas - the 8 hour turnarounds are
highlighted.
The following morning, just as the Supervisor was relieving
Ray's brother from the night shift, guard3 who had the rotas
taken off him burst into the lodge & started bouncing
round aggressively (he is a very big body builder & uses
his size to intimidate) & screaming at Ray's brother
saying that he had put ideas in Ray's head & that Ray
& his brother had "fucked" guard3's life up. He
went on to threaten Ray's brother with violence but because
his brother wasn't scared, he calmed him down & told him
to go home!
The minute guard3 left, the Supervisor told Ray's brother that
he could have guard3 sacked for threatening him, all he had to
do was put in a complaint and the supervisor would sack him on
the spot but Ray's brother said no as it was just an argument
& it would all be forgotten about the next day - the
Supervisor seemed to be scared of guard3 for some reason..
This incident is referred to by the supervisor on the tape
recording which we will come to later on
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During the
Boxing Night shift, an alarm went off at a warehouse belonging
to 'the company' - Ray's brother, who was on duty alone that
night, received a phone call from the police asking him to
attend at the warehouse to reset the alarm. Ray's brother
could not do this straight away - he was alone in the factory
because it was shutdown so he phoned his supervisor for cover.
The Supervisor had been drinking & instead of getting a
taxi into work, he told Ray's brother to sort it out - Ray's
brother went on to ring three people - none of whom were
available so he rang his supervisor back & asked him if he
could just lock up & go as the police were waiting for
him. His Supervisor refused to allow it & told Ray's
brother to get either his wife or one of his lads to cover his
shift.. Ray's brother had no other choice than to ask his 15
year old son to come in because he could get hold of no one
else & the police were becoming impatient. This was an
appalling situation for him to be in - although he wouldn't be
gone for long, he still knew that he had left his son alone,
guarding a factory that was empty & in total darkness.
The following day, Ray's brother confronted his Supervisor
& told him that he never wanted to be put in that
situation again - the Supervisor wrote in handover book 31
that he was arranging cover for future incidents - this never
actually happened & the guards are still left with the
nightmare that they to might have to bring a member of their
family in to cover their shift.
Ray was not happy about his Nephew being used in this way -
Ray had worked in security for over 20 years, he had also been
a supervisor & because of this he knew that his supervisor
was incompetent, a danger to the people he was supposed to be
protecting & a liability to the company. So Ray told him
straight - if his supervisor didn't report this incident to
the General Manager, then he would. The reason Ray was so
outraged was because the company don't employ enough men to
cover the workload - there are supposed to be 2 men on the
night shift but the supervisor told the General Manager that
his department could cope with 5 men instead of 6 |
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Supervisor started running round the lodge in a disturbing manner
screaming "your out to fuckin get me, I've got to watch my
back when your around coz your out to fuckin get me"
It was at this moment that the Supervisor realised Ray could see
he was incompetent & therefore a threat to his position of
authority so he started a personal vendetta against Ray to
undermine his work & sack him.
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