If you’ve got an annoying habit at work, watch out – it could be spurring your boss to find a legitimate way to sack you or move you to a different role.
That’s the finding of a British employment law consultancy, which has found that managers are using personal animosity and the most trivial of excuses to decide on redundancies, sackings and internal transfers. According to Protecting.co.uk, managers and owners with the power to hire and fire have used excuses such as annoying laughs, bad tea-making skills, or too much aftershave when looking for heads to roll – going on to ‘mark their cards’ for future termination.
“It’s something we’ve suspected for a long time,” said Protecting.co.uk spokesperson Mark Hall.
“The most trivial of behaviour could be the trigger for a process that could lead to bullying, disciplinary processes and even dismissal. If what we’ve heard is true, bosses up and down the country are marking out workers for special attention just because they don’t like their personal habits. It opens up huge risk factors for unfair dismissal claims.”
