Got a phone call of me 'bessy' last night, to inform me that he's been sacked for gross misconduct.
8 years of impecable work for this main car stealer, totally honest and almost boringly straight as a dye.
His crime?
He's 'earmarked a new 2nd hand car that had been taken in as a 'swapper' for his son and placed it to one side and paid for it for what it owed the company WITHOUT asking permission from the dealer principle first.
Permission is never sought, and as long as the staff don't take the piss buying cars to make a financial gain on a regular basis, then it's deemed acceptable apparently. An unwritten rule and has been going on for years.
He apologised both verbally and by letter and withdrew his interest in the car immidiately.
This time however the boss has dragged him in for a disciplinary hearing, suspended him for a week, dragged him back in yesterday and given him instant dismisal for gross misconduct.
To say that both he AND his sales manager were gobsmacked was an understatement.
He has been told he can appeal apparently.
Now never having been unemployed in his entire life, he's actually at a bit of a loss as to what he should now do?
How does he appeal and to whom, and is it going to cost him ££££££££'s
He's been told that he can 'resign' if he'd prefer that, presumably to look better on his CV?
I dunno and am of little help on these matters tbh.
Everybody agrees btw that there is a hidden agenda to all this, as the stealership is having a very bad time on sales and is therefore looking for cutbacks.
Going to be 'fun' for me next time I'm called in to do some werk for them.
