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A quick recap for you:

Ray submits his disciplinary appeal letter to the General Manager - (Ignored)

The General Manager holds an investigation into the incidents of 05/03/02 - The company have not sent Ray their findings

Ray requests his work records from the HR Officer - The company have withheld this information (or maybe it doesn't exist, which would prove they are liars out to protect their reputations)

The HR Manager & Employment Relations Manager conduct an investigation - The company have not sent Ray their findings

The HR Director conducts an investigation & libel's Rays good name even further - this is the company's final response

 

For those of you who don't speak 'suit' this is what it all means in plain English

First of all, we won't go into everything you asked us to investigate as we can't think up any lies that would cover us completely so we shall omit them (we don't want to embarrass ourselves like last time)

You have been dismissed from our company because you were absent from work - we understand that you were signed off work by your doctor because you were suffering from stress & depression caused by workplace bullying & we know that we said in your contract that you are entitled to be off work under these circumstances but we were only kidding.. We are not afraid to make this judgment against you even though we know that you had never been off work before this & you even came into work sick - but hey, your just a temporary worker with no rights!!

Just in case someone does say that's unfair, we'd like to point out that you have a very poor disciplinary record - we won't show you these records because they don't actually exist so you'll just have to take our word for it.. "your a bad worker"!!

We know you taped your supervisor because he was bullying you & we were ignoring your pleas for help but we don't like things like that so we had to keep ignoring you, we know that you phoned us twice to ask for a meeting because you couldn't attend the disciplinary but that's your word against ours & us saying that we kept trying to get in touch with you & you ignoring us sounds much better - we sent our Gardener out to your friends house to tell you to attend, that covers us nicely!!

We also know that our HR Officer was in on the bullying, that's why we have said that you provoked & orchestrated an event with your supervisor - what else could we say, we won't admit that you were right - not ever! We know that you fulfilled your job description & went beyond your duties but we have to say that you couldn't do your job or you could sue us for lots of money!! We also like giving our temporary workers the odd unfair disciplinary because we enjoy abusing our power over you..

Because you had gathered so much evidence against us we had to make up a pack of lies so that we could sack you - the Government supports the way we treat our temporary workers!

When we say it is our belief, what we mean is we have listened to the bullies & decided to take their side - We are saying that you were as much to blame as your supervisor because we support the bully fully & we don't want any blame to rest on him really but seen as you do have witnesses & a tape recording of the bullying we will say for our sake that it was your fault! We have disciplined your supervisor for bullying you but we won't sack him for gross misconduct even though we know we should because that would be admitting guilt & could cost us a lot of money if you sue us!! We didn't find any evidence of your supervisor being a serial bully because all of the workers you told us about left the company under mysterious circumstances but they all had one thing in common with you - you all have very poor disciplinary records - we know that the turnover rate in the lodge was excessive - the lodge is always a man down because we keep hiring people who refuse to have their human rights breached - the supervisor, who has been there for 17 years compared to the longest standing guard who has been there for 3 years is doing a good job of getting rid of these workers - shhh, that's a secret!!

We know that we hired you as a security guard but didn't give you that type of work - this is for our insurance purposes - we can also treat you worse than any other employee because security are scum.. Even your union didn't recognise you when they got a better deal for all of our other workers (click here for the proof) We're saying we have changed certain practices but that is another fib - the guards you worked with are still working under the same conditions as before - and we can get away with it because now all of the guards know that if they complain we will sack them - good eh..

We know that porn was being distributed by our gardener but we will have to say you are lying because we don't want to be inspected by Customs & Excise who would sue us & we can't have that - it would be bad for business!!

Again, we 'believe' that this matter has been investigated fully by the bullies themselves & we are very happy with this although we won't tell you the outcome of all of the investigations - we will continue beating round the bush leaving you none the wiser. We were very clever asking our workers questions that they couldn't give a proper answer to & the intimidation tactics worked a treat..

We know that you followed the correct complaints procedure - you were very clever doing that because it says in your contract that no procedures are available to you because of your temporary status - we have had to say that the general manager didn't receive your grievance because he is our Golden Boy & we wouldn't want incompetence of this scale on his work records so you are lying - you did not send any letter - our word against yours again..

We were very annoyed when you left out some serious issues that had taken place - because you left this information out we cannot cover it up & we could be sued by the DTI if they find out before we do - that was very naughty.. we don't want to see your evidence about what your supervisor put you through - we don't care, we have already told you that we are supporting the bully 110%

I can assure you that where we found evidence of gross misconduct & breaches of the UK Law we covered it up immediately - we won't go into what we found because that would give our game away!! Everything you have complained about will happen again but no one will complain again as we have used you as an example of what happens to workers if they complain about their 'Rights being Breached'..

I have not found sufficient grounds to give you your job back - you rocked the boat, what else am I going to say, I'm covering my arse here..

If anymore of our workers raise concerns with you about us bullying them, please let us know so that we can sack those workers & do a nice little cover up job..

Because I am so dizzy & do not really give a damn about you, I've made sure you couldn't claim benefits for 3 months - messing your SSP1 form up worked a treat - I haven't quite finished bullying you yet, I'm now going to deny you a weeks notice - your getting 4 days notice - this will mess your claim up again because the benefits agency want the exact date that we sacked you - which we're not going to give them, for a while anyway..

Finally, thank you for bringing these matters to our attention - we have now covered our arses & wish to God you would get over it - like we said, we are in the right so what are you moaning about??

Well, this conclusion came as no surprise, infact, it was expected - Ray had been prepared for the worst by his legal team because everyone knew more lies could tip him over the edge.

The benefits agency were so appalled when they were told what Ray had been through that they referred his case to an employment rights agency - eventually, after 3 months of living on fresh air & different companies threatening to take him to court for non payment all because of the bullying tactics used by the company Ray flipped & tried to gas himself in his car - fortunately, he didn't succeed, his medication has been upped & he is now addicted to prescribed sleeping tablets - he faces a slow cold turkey withdrawal when he is ready to come off his medication - he has been signed off work indefinitely..

His future is now uncertain - he has finally been able to sort out his incapacity benefits with the help of the benefits agency who assigned a customer relations officer to Ray to attempt to bypass the company's bullying tactics (withholding confirmation of amendments, withholding his last wage slip & constantly changing the date of his dismissal). Ray cannot go for another job because his name has been slandered & libeled by a company who Ray went beyond his duties for.. He has done nothing wrong apart from standing up to a workplace bully who had bullied before & will do so again

The company hold a different view - we have been informed by one of Ray's colleagues that the company are sending the supervisor on several training courses - there is a serious problem with this - you might be able to train him up to do the job (one he has been doing for 17 years, says a lot doesn't it) but you cannot change his personality..

Thanks to Tim Field's website, www.successunlimited.co.uk, we were able to find out about mental health disorders that the majority of bullies suffer from - we asked 5 workers, including Ray to go through the list of disorders to see which one matched the supervisor's behaviour - they all chose the 'Paranoid Personality Disorder'

Paranoid Personality Disorder
and the serial bully

(The following has been taken from www.successunlimited.co.uk/bully/ppd.htm)

The serial bully's fear of exposure is reminiscent of Paranoid Personality Disorder, a pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent. An inability to trust, doubts about others' loyalty, distortion and fabrication, misinterpretation, and bearing grudges unnecessarily are hallmarks of the disorder. Pathological jealousy, instinctive aggressive counter-attack, the need to control others, and the gathering of trivial or circumstantial "evidence" to support their jealous beliefs also feature. The DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder are:

A. A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent as indicated by at least four of:

1. suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming or deceiving him or her

2. is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates

3. is unwilling to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her

4. reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events

5. persistently bears grudges, ie is unforgiving of (perceived) insults, injuries or slights

6. perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counter-attack

7. has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding the fidelity of spouse or sexual partner

B. Does not occur exclusively during a course of schizophrenia, mood disorder, etc

In many cases, the serial bully appears to select targets in the order of the serial bully's perception of danger of exposure of inadequacy.


We have never met the man but after putting this case together and listening to the testimonies of other workers we believe that this man does suffer from this disorder & should not be in charge of the lives of so many people (Health & Safety, Fire Protocol, Supervisor)

 

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