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Dishonest Managers - What do we do?
Hope you guys can hang in here for this read!
I want to give you a little background first. My boyfriend and I worked the same job up until last Saturday. He was fired. Reason being, two Fridays ago we finished up all of our work, and asked our boss if it was O.K. to leave early. He verbally said yes. Well, we left. Mistake #1, shame on us for not getting the approval in writing.
The next Tuesday I got called into my boss's boss's office and chewed out for leaving early, while BF heard nothing about it. I admitted it was my decision to leave, and when I brought up the fact that boss had said O.K., he of course denied it. Boss's boss says "Okay, well move on and don't let it happen again. This is over and I don't want to hear about it again."
One week later, work goes well. No hiccups or scoldings. We stayed 9 hours each day. Saturday, BF gets a call that he's fired, and not to show up the next day. He is so upset, and so am I. I am feeling very at fault for this. I admitted to boss's boss it was my decision, and they axed HIM over it. Why? I don't know. Our performance was excellent and we often received praise from our customers.
Fast Forward to today. BF has been jobless all week. He now receives an email saying his time is disapproved back through January 28th. The reasoning being "employee did not show up to work" or "employee left early," the list goes on. I am FURIOUS!! I sat next to him working with him each one of those days, and SO DID BOSS! How can they now try to disapprove time cards with lies to avoid paying him? That is a LOT of money! Almost the entire month of February! I am so mad. I don't know what to tell him. What can we do? No one will take his phone calls to argue the disapproval. I know I can vouch for his time, and so can some of our customers. I have no faith that boss will offer any assistance after this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Re: Dishonest Managers - What do we do?
Who is not taking his phone calls? The boss? HR?
Is there no HR officer? What about the grievance procerure in the employee manual? I would start there.
I (we) were told that he can't collect unemployment because he was fired and that he's a subcontractor. Is that true? So he hasn't filed unemployment based on this information.
He tried calling his boss and old boss (same company, he just moved supervisors not long ago), and his contracting company. The contracting company reps he deals with are on vacation and will return Monday. So he's waiting to hear from them on Monday. I don't expect to hear back from boss.
Boss actually answered earlier this AM and said, "I'll call you back." ... We will see.