Totally Shafted

TonyInch

I was made redundent after 3 months. I left a full time position to take this job.I had to wait ages to find out if I had the job because the parent company bought over another concern around this time but I was assured that my employment was still required.Basically I took over a role to free up my new boss to source new clients.
I'm experienced in my field so from the first few days it was clear that things were in a bit of a mess and I set about sorting things out. Serious problems were found relating back to last year,work my new boss shouldve done but didnt! A corporate decision was made to close my place of work,make the employees redundent and move all work to the new site. My boss is still insitu and the workers gone.I'm left with no job or redundency and a ruined reputation as the place closed under my watch! I have no rights or intitlements due my short time there .What to do in this situation? Seek the boss's head or be the bigger person and move on?

Nody

You have no real chance of getting your boss head; hence move on.

Mrs OBumble

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

'Fraid it's one of the downsides of the Irish probation laws .. you're basically up the creek without a paddle. (When recovery happens, this is going to be one thing that will hold the country back: people in a permanent job will not want to take the risk of leaving).

Only advice is to be bigger than that and move on. Ideally use your contacts in the industry to make sure that other in the field know why the place closed.

allibastor

jesus, what a bad spot to be in. as said above it is the one area which will limit people moving to jobs to help recovery, people will be too afraid if anything happens they will be left up the same creak as yourself.

the only thing you could do is appeal to the parent company with whatever proof you have that the situation that forced the closure of your place of work was there before you took up the role and that responsibility lay with your manager.

if its a case of reputation its a worry, but most comanies now will realsie that many firms will fail due to staff mistakes that have built up over the years, were never corrected as the buisness had ample reserves to absorb these mistakes. that situation has changed now as firms are finding all these little cracks are starting to add up and erode the company finance or position.

in short all you can do is move on from it as a bigger person. try to at least document the reason for closure so that you can highlight to future employers that it was a situation in place before you got there.

thanks.

TonyInch

Thanks for the replies feeling more forgiving now. I suppose a letter outlining the neglection of duties and outlining my personal grievance over my treatment achieves nothing.

I suppose it is not much of a Company to stay with long term anyway when they shut up shop without a full investigation into the root cause of our service problems, or when they retain the senior manager and clean out the rest of us.

The biggest insult though was the offer of an entry level job at the other site for half my current salary when I've spent the last 10years studying and building up a skill set.