Should I leave

[Depending]

I work in a factory and I really enjoy it. I got hired through an agency who are my boss aswell as my supervisor who is my boss aswell. But I work on a line where there's a line lead, I rarely work under her unless I have no work but she gets on very well with the supervisor, she gets her way, so before I started I had 3 holidays booked one for each month bar one month, 3 days most on Saturdays out Thursday and Friday. I'm there 4 months, but the line leader has said to me how did you get the holidays repeatedly about 6 times she couldn't understand how I got them, I explained I had them booked months ago, I heard she's supposed to be finished at half 1 but stys till 4 and complais about how she can't get holidays. Then one of the girls said that she's bitchy about me saying she's off on holidays the whole time and she just in the door and she wants to get moved to evenings and she gets it. Then I get an email to say I could be facing disciplinary warning depending on the outcome of a meeting on Monday. Should I leave or wait till the meeting, why she's jealous of me I don't know, like she's owed holidays so take them

When you ask for holidays someone has to grant you those days off. Who granted yours? Any problems and that supervisor should go speak to the person who granted your holidays and discuss it with them. You asked. You were given. End of.

Who is going to the meeting on Monday? Who called it? Why is it happening? To discuss what? Were you invited?

Ya they said the holidays were no problem at the interview, I'm invited by the agency who hired me and they said I'm allowed to bring someone as per procedure to discuss recent performance, the thing is I haven't messed up, the woman who I work with is very particular and would have said, the supervisor has said nothing and noone else who is with the agency has been invited to attend meetings

Hold on a minute. Who is this meeting with? The agency who hired you or the company you are working at?

Did you mention the holidays at interview, someone said 'Yes, no problem' and that was it? Now you are taking the holidays and no one has communicated that they were okayed at interview, so they're not happy?

After the interview did you follow the formal process to specify your days off for holiday so that it was recorded as it should be and logged correctly? Or have you just been told in the interview it was fine, so taken the time off?

I’ve no idea what the meeting is about either. Bizarre.

Could be that the supervisor woman doesn’t like you for some reason and is trying to get rid of you? Told lies about you? Said you were taking time off without permission?

Or perhaps it’s a good thing like they are going to offer you a permanent position or something else?

I’m presuming you should attend and if anyone asks about holidays you tell them they were granted at interview but the hr person or whomever it was, as you fully explained at the time you needed xyz dates off.

If they say your performance isn’t up to scratch ask why they feel that way, as you were under the impression you were doing what was required of you and the woman who usually supervised you raised no issues about productivity.

It’s hard being employed by an agency and during the first two years of employment in any company you get hardly any protection. Good luck.

The agency were hired by the factory and they do be at the factory regularly, but the woman us bitching about me gets her way, she has her workers basically writing down how many parts they completed on an hourly basis. She does be laughing away with my supervisor, I heard her bitching about me and the next thing I'm being invited to a disciplinary meeting which basically stated depending on the outcome of the meeting disciplinary action will be inforced, I just have a feeling it's the beginning of a harassment to get me out the door, but I'm wondering should I just leave after Monday

Don’t leave, stand your ground. It sounds like you think you have done nothing wrong and no one has a right to harass you out of your job. Think carefully about who you will take with you, someone who understands the situation and can speak clearly for you if you feel you need them to. Good luck!

If you leave where will you get work? You won’t be able to claim benefits if you turn down work.

I’d prob await the outcome of the meeting.

Ya true, shitty money on the dole anyway and I'd be sitting on my hole doing nothing, going crazy. I'd get work in the same thing just traffic is worse. But I just have a bad feeling about it being the start of a game and she's behind it all, just to put me in my place, I'll see how it goes Monday but it's just playing on my mind and the thing is I enjoy the job, the money is good too,

Could she be picking on you for any other reason? Like disability or skin colour or anything that you could be being discriminated against because of?

Mmm I really can't think of anything else except I'm not a fan of going in Saturdays to do overtime, but on Saturdays you usually do 4 to 5 hours. So I usually stay on 2 hours extra in the evening, so about 5-6 hours overtime per week, that's after the supervisor said to me you have to do overtime, so then I started doing overtime. My mother thinks it's because I'm not talking to her cause people like that probably want their ego boosted, some days I say hello. But no I can't think of anything, I'm white no disability never talked about controversial gays/lesbians, relationships, I barely talk about much just general chat to her. She also saying that I probably only moved to evenings to get from the woman I was working with and she's actually very good teacher, I mean I do the same job pretty much all the time, there's not a lot more to learn and I just prefer evenings cause their quiter