It’s better than the headline, they actually did get her one but never disclosed it at the time because only three people signed it. That and other details just make it sound like she was a bad fit and chancing her arm for a settlement.
elreydelespana on
She seems like the Final Level Boss Karen.
Pray for her future employers and co-workers.
takesthebiscuit on
Ha I never got a leaving card, the company did the collection but I left just after Covid
Three months later my boss met me at a pub and passed me a brown envelope with £300 shoved in and all the names on it
Stampy77 on
Of course she is actually called Karen, that is hilarious.
The woman sounds like an absolute nightmare to work with.
BriefTele on
I will no longer read anything in the guardian, but isn’t this simply yet another case of “crime doesn’t pay, let’s decriminalise fraud”?
SinisterPixel on
I’ve never had a leaving card at any company I’ve ever worked at. Clearly I’m due a payday lmao
judochop1 on
I got made redundant over Covid, it was a big “here’s your redundancy money now fuck off” affair. You just move on, people at work aren’t your mates.
My current work place has bloody hundreds of people there, we get a card going round every couple of weeks and frankly it gets annoying.
tldr – don’t get that attached to your job and expect anything
csgymgirl on
I’m reading the court documents and the incidents she listed as harassment included:
– a colleague extending a call past the woman’s sign-off time
– a colleague using the same word as her in a card but with the correct spelling
– a colleague not joining a call and then asking her to tell him what happened in it
yikes lol
Meet-me-behind-bins on
I hope the company got her a ‘with sympathy’ card signed by everyone when she lost the case. I’m all for workers rights but some people take the piss. My brother started a business, took a massive risk, his first hire did three weeks and then got signed off, he’s been paying them for 6 months whist they play Warzone and threaten ACAS.
mrsilver76 on
A woman in my team left years ago and I did a card and collection.
Normally we’d raise about £150 but this collection was so pitiful that I ended up contributing £50 so that there was enough to buy her something vaguely more than a low-value gift card.
To this day she doesn’t know how unpopular she was.
UKS1977 on
I worked for a very big U.K. company – when I was there they had a huge voluntary redundancy programme that meant lots of colleagues left in a continuous dribble. They had all either done lots of years and knew everyone, or moving to a better job before they were pushed – so got drinks, card, present etc.
The final one to go was me! All I got was a beer from the remaining colleague. (Singular not plural – both in a beer and colleague sense)
TheFirstMinister on
JFC – just leave. It’s work, not family. Within 24 hours you’ll be nothing but a distant memory anyway.
froggy101_3 on
This woman is going to find it hard to ever get a job again. Anyone reading the detail of this case is never going to hire her
ramxquake on
Employment law is getting ridiculous. How did this even get to a tribunal?
SolidusTengu on
I got a leaving card and it was signed “from everyone” I popped that straight in the bin.
pajamakitten on
If you are the sort of person who takes a company to court over something like this then are you honestly surprised you did not get a card? She sounds like the sort of person everyone hopes calls in sick so they do not have to put up with their nonsense.
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It’s better than the headline, they actually did get her one but never disclosed it at the time because only three people signed it. That and other details just make it sound like she was a bad fit and chancing her arm for a settlement.
She seems like the Final Level Boss Karen.
Pray for her future employers and co-workers.
Ha I never got a leaving card, the company did the collection but I left just after Covid
Three months later my boss met me at a pub and passed me a brown envelope with £300 shoved in and all the names on it
Of course she is actually called Karen, that is hilarious.
The woman sounds like an absolute nightmare to work with.
I will no longer read anything in the guardian, but isn’t this simply yet another case of “crime doesn’t pay, let’s decriminalise fraud”?
I’ve never had a leaving card at any company I’ve ever worked at. Clearly I’m due a payday lmao
I got made redundant over Covid, it was a big “here’s your redundancy money now fuck off” affair. You just move on, people at work aren’t your mates.
My current work place has bloody hundreds of people there, we get a card going round every couple of weeks and frankly it gets annoying.
tldr – don’t get that attached to your job and expect anything
I’m reading the court documents and the incidents she listed as harassment included:
– a colleague extending a call past the woman’s sign-off time
– a colleague using the same word as her in a card but with the correct spelling
– a colleague not joining a call and then asking her to tell him what happened in it
yikes lol
I hope the company got her a ‘with sympathy’ card signed by everyone when she lost the case. I’m all for workers rights but some people take the piss. My brother started a business, took a massive risk, his first hire did three weeks and then got signed off, he’s been paying them for 6 months whist they play Warzone and threaten ACAS.
A woman in my team left years ago and I did a card and collection.
Normally we’d raise about £150 but this collection was so pitiful that I ended up contributing £50 so that there was enough to buy her something vaguely more than a low-value gift card.
To this day she doesn’t know how unpopular she was.
I worked for a very big U.K. company – when I was there they had a huge voluntary redundancy programme that meant lots of colleagues left in a continuous dribble. They had all either done lots of years and knew everyone, or moving to a better job before they were pushed – so got drinks, card, present etc.
The final one to go was me! All I got was a beer from the remaining colleague. (Singular not plural – both in a beer and colleague sense)
JFC – just leave. It’s work, not family. Within 24 hours you’ll be nothing but a distant memory anyway.
This woman is going to find it hard to ever get a job again. Anyone reading the detail of this case is never going to hire her
Employment law is getting ridiculous. How did this even get to a tribunal?
I got a leaving card and it was signed “from everyone” I popped that straight in the bin.
If you are the sort of person who takes a company to court over something like this then are you honestly surprised you did not get a card? She sounds like the sort of person everyone hopes calls in sick so they do not have to put up with their nonsense.