Suspended from work / Drugs

[lolpeters]

When / Should I bring up my grievance about my director?

I work as a manager in recruitment. I was suspended from work recently due to the fact that I moved revenue from an ex employee in my team into my name when they left and as such personaly financially benefited from this without getting director approval. There is a business case surrounding why I did this which I won't go into the details now. Recently I have been having a number of conflicts with my director around his tone, attitude and general communication. I feel that they are using this to drive me out of the business. They have conducted a full investigation and have asked me to attend a disciplinary hearing next week and have written in the letter they are considering dismissing me. I feel there is a hidden agenda here and I don't know to what lengths they are prepared to go to. i.e dismiss me, claim back money from revenue from my final salary they think I owe them.

Without knowing, I think i need to prepare for the worst. As such I am contemplating telling the managing director that my regional director asked another member of staff to get some cocaine from another of member of staff in the office and proceeded to then prepare lines of coke on the office table. I found this extremely uncomfortable. My question is that I don't really want to raise this but if my name is going to be blackened should I be thinking of doing this before I attend a disciplnery hearing and potentially get dismissed.

[bednobs]

from your account, i dont think you should mention it at all. if yu were uncomfortable about it you should have done something about it at the time, not kept it to use to score points. i would have trouble believing you if you were using it to get back at someone but some time after the event

[lolpeters]

I understand your point. I have a witness though as well who can confirm this. The fact that it was my boss you tend not to want to cause trouble.

[bednobs]

You can absolutely garuntee if your witness still works there they will conveinently forget about the incident when asked, and it will seem like sour grapes on your part

[clio57]

I agree with bednobs. The 2 issues are separate. If you bring it the issue of drugs it could be seen to further question your integrity. You're a manager. You should have challenged the regional director at the time.

Prepare your case by making notes of the reasons why you didn't get your managing director's approval for moving the revenue.

From the details you have given it appears to me that no matter how you think you can justify it that you have defrauded your employer. This could be considered gross misconduct and if they feel that you have fundamentally undermined the relationship between you both.

[lolpeters]

yes I agree I dont thing the drugs side of is worth going into. As I said without going into the detail but you have a opinion, not sure if this is of interest but............. An employee in my team wasn't doing as well as hoped. I gave him a couple of placements in one of my client accounts which my directors were happy with and really appreciative that I had shown some sensitivity given that he was working hard with little rewards. I had also given a considerable amount to a colleague as a candidate I had in the process for a role went temporary to permanent which would have meant the whole fee would go to me. I gave it to them instead as I thought it was fairer and more harmonious for the office atmosphere. Again the directors thought this was generous. A previous employee had left about 1 month before and as such there was a pile of revenue( which commission wasn't being paid out on) which I counterbalanced by transfering revenue from a previous consultant who was no longer employed into my name. We also have candidate ownership splits and 2 of these previous employees candidates were under their name but placements I had made within my clients. Candidate ownership means the consultant gets paid 30% of the overall revenue by managing that candidate relationship. As I said they had left and I was now managing the relationship and these placements were ones that I had already made myself in my clients anyway. I feel I have had a rough end of the deal to be honest. Overall the gain I have recieved is less than what I have given. If their is an offence i feel its managerial niavity to think I had the autonomy to do this.

[clio57]

Thanks for expanding on your situation. As I said before it is difficult to advise and make judgement without knowing all the details.

I think it's strange that if the directors knew you were transferring the placements and thought you were being generous, how they can now be investigating.

Write down as accurately as you can, your recollection of course of events - what happened, when, who you spoke to and who was present. This will enable you to put forward your best case.

Good luck