HI All below is an e-mail I sent about what I want through in may last job, I was going to leave the names out but feel I have to leave them in and I will face the consequences, if there are any.
Dear Andrew
This is a hard e-mail for me to write as there will be a lot I say in it that would probably mean I could not come back and work at IKEA and I know they are serious and I have spent many a sleepless night thinking about doing this it is something I have thought... about doing for a long time now, but just not had the courage, but after speaking with my counsellor and my family, I feel I have the courage to do it, it is a massive risk I am taking doing this but it is a risk I am willing to take at this moment in time, and I have to do this for myself and stop being the coward I am and stand up for myself, more than anything else I can't go on living the lie, that I have been afraid to speak about what I have been through the last 18 or so months.
Ever since I had my break down 2 years ago and subsequent disciplinary, I have always had the feeling that there has been an effort to push me over the edge and out of the department, using my illness 2 years ago stress/ mental health against me, by putting pressure on me and pushing me to the edge, and over the last 7 or so months it has taken it's toll on me and I have started to feel isolated, alienated and alone, It has got to the point I am physically ill before work because I can't face certain co-workers in the eye knowing what they are putting me through.
Alan, never spoke to me for over 7 months would blank me and now talks to me very abruptly and snappy, it is hurtful, I have mentioned it to Johan, but all I got back was it is my own fault and to think what I have done, both Leighton and Saied noticed the tension there was when Alan and I were together, weather they will tell you this is another matter.
A couple of months ago I had an e-mail off Angelika, that was rather nasty in my eyes, only to find out that Leighton was the one who typed it up for her and found it funny that I took exception to it, both Gary and Johan was copied in on it, when I spoke to Johan he did not see anything wrong with it. I will forward this to you.
When I came back off the sick last year after 7 weeks, I found out that my shift pattern had been change, ie:- my weekend was changed yet no consultation and someone could have at least picked up the phone and spoke to me, informing me this was happening.
As I have said earlier in this e-mail, this has taken me a lot of courage to do this, I have been with IKEA for nearly 10 years and the last 18 months or so have been my worst and the last 7 or more have really made me think is IKEA for me, It is hard wanting to say something and not having the courage to do so, you suffer in silence.
I will turn up for the disciplinary on Thursday as I feel pressured into doing so..
Yours Sincerely
Mark
As you can see I made this complaint via an e-mail so it should be on record, The Disciplinary was for a set of keys going missing, that I put in my draw, I allegedly lost them on my way home from, which I never and their attitude was as I was suffering from stress I could not remember if I had taken them home, this is a load of poppy cock and rubbish.
The firm decided to go ahead with the disciplinary even though the OHA said I was not fit enough for it, only fit enough for the investigation, when I said my doctor said I was not fit I was told I had no option but to turn up for the disciplinary.
These allegations stated out in this e-mail were never to my knowledge investigated, no one was ever spoken to and no interview was done with me about these allegations, it seems to me they were just brushed under the carpet, out of site, out of mind so to say.
Surely these allegations should have been looked into, allegedly they were not, I suffered extreme stress over this Bullying, not mentioned in the e-mail is the sexual innuendo that went on and my supervisor using physiological bullying as well.
This part of the story as to why I lost my job, someone said to me the other day that work place bullying is not an issue in the UK.
Well my answer to them is, It is and it is a big issue and something needs to be done about it.
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