Written Warning

[Buddy0007]

I was pulled in the office by my boss and shown a e-mail from a customer stating.

1-smoking on site. (Which I did told the customer I was going outside to have a cig., but customer did state that they objected.

2- Bad mouthing the company I work for. (All I stated was that we should of done assestment prior to the work)

3- Professional Appearance (my employer has casual dress code, which I'm not breaking)

After that I was handed a written warning. And boss agrees that the management is blow this out of porportion.

I also found that the sales rep for the account is have an affair with the user who put in the complaint.

Sounds like discrimination to me...

[cbg]

Then you don't understand what illegal discrimination is, because this isn't it.

[jeanikini]

I realize you people volunteer but I would also like to know what are your qualifications? Are you attorneys or just volunteers giving the information to others on this board. Just curious? I have done a lot of my own research and contacted an attorney but what is being told here and what my actual attorney says are entirely different? So I am not sure whether to take your opinions as face value or whether they are really coming from professional people who know all the laws? Thank you in advance.

[cbg]

Some of the people who post here are attorneys; others are HRor payroll professionals who are required to know employment law as a part of their jobs.

I would be extremely interested to know what part of the above post your "attorney" says is illegal. Also why you are bringing up a thread that is almost a year old to contest.

[Pattymd]

I agree with cbg and I also have professional experience in this area.

1. DID you go have a cigarette? Does the company policy prohibit it? If not, does the company policy require that you adhere to the policies of the client company? I've done consulting in my day, and that is a common requirement.

2. Maybe the assessment should have been done, but if the company deems that "bad-mouthing", that is the company's right.

3. Professional appearance is very subjective. As a consultant (as now, in senior management), I always tried to dress just as professionally as the client and a tad better than the employees who work for me. If you're really interested in what they find not "professional", why don't you just ask?

What does the personal relationship have to do with you?

And, BTW, cbg "Also why you are bringing up a thread that is almost a year old to contest?
How DID he do that?

[cbg]

The OP is long gone. I was talking to jeanikini, who chose to bring up a dead thread to make her complaint.

[Pattymd]

Originally Posted by cbg

The OP is long gone. I was talking to jeanikini, who chose to bring up a dead thread to make her complaint.

Sorry, I completely missed the third party in here. Please ignore everything I just said.