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Work harassing me while on maternity leave

346 replies

Lilannii · 07/07/2014 10:42

I found out I was pregnant April last year and after asking the home I work in to put me down for shorter shifts was declined I took my maternity leave ASAP. Since then they have made a list of bank staff and text them with available shifts for the week, but it's every single day. My little one is 5 months old now and these bloody texts keep waking him up! I shouldn't have to silence my phone all day every day. I never opted to be on this list, I even told them late December I had quit. I get about 8 texts a day, I have called them twice last week, the first time the person in charge was supposed to call me back and never did and the second time the receptionist was supposed to pass a message on, I have called them this morning and am waiting again for the person in charge of the list to phone me back. Does this constitute harrassment?? What can I do about this? It's driving me nuts. Especially when little man has been ill and only just drifted off to sleep them to be woken by work texting

OP posts:
slithytove · 07/07/2014 17:26

I was being passive aggressive! I need to learn aggressive aggressive.

Good to know you have benefited from my wisdom

Grin

I just know how sick it would make me feel if my work were doing this, hence why I think it's better to get them to stop rather then just skirt the issue as it were. But I think I have trumpeted my opinions over this thread enough!

Hope all works out OP :)

DottyDooRidesAgain · 07/07/2014 17:27

Why do I wasted such a talent on idiots. Sad

Here is the Daily Fail link so they can run your story and sad face picture. You may even get some money for it Grin

DottyDooRidesAgain · 07/07/2014 17:28

Really slithy I hadn't noticed you had an opinion

Now bog off and polish ya badge Grin

weedonleg · 07/07/2014 17:46

But she's not on maternity leave! She has no relationship with the company. It's no different to continuing to getting emails from a company when you've asked to be taken off the mailing list. Irritating, and deserving of a stern letter, but not harrassment, and not something to take to court (since there is a very simple solution - block) and not something worth allowing your baby's sleep to be disturbed for 'out of principle'.

Craziest behavouir I have ever seen on Mumsnet!

Boudica1990 · 07/07/2014 17:49

Grin This thread is hilarious...

OP is being a drama lama, and a fuckwit and then thanks the one and only poster who wants to fuel her one woman show, and say she is right when she's just being awkward and childish.

Oh and YABU because your not on maternity leave and are no longer employed by the company in question.

I love mumsnet :)

HayDayQueen · 07/07/2014 17:54

The OP is being over the top, but I don't think she's being completely unreasonable!

I think its ridiculous that we have to protect ourselves from unwanted texts in the same way as from unwanted emails.

Companies have a duty of care to not use personal information in incorrect ways. If they are no longer her employers, then they have a duty of care to REMOVE her details from their database. They are in breach of data protection for not doing that.

Claiming it is an 'error' is simply not good enough (and actually, its everyone here saying its an error, not the company as far as I can see).

DottyDooRidesAgain · 07/07/2014 18:03

But Hay why is blocking a number she no longer uses not the best, fastest and easiest solution?

HayDayQueen · 07/07/2014 18:23

It might be the best, fastest and easiest solution. BUT, they SHOULDN'T be doing this ANYWAY! So I can kinda see why its the principle of the thing that matters, especially if they are someone who has already pissed you off royally.

flowery · 07/07/2014 18:23

"Claiming it is an 'error' is simply not good enough (and actually, its everyone here saying its an error, not the company as far as I can see)."

I think it's unlikely she was deliberately added by someone who knew she had left, therefore it is highly probable that it is an error. Which of course they should put right.

No one is saying they shouldn't have to put that error right, and nothing the OP has said gives any indication that they won't. Once she's written to them properly and given them a chance to sort it out, there is absolutely no reason to believe that they will refuse to remove her. But she hasn't done that yet. It's been a couple of weeks of messages, and she's rung last week and left a couple of messages about it.

People are very helpfully suggesting that if she finds the texts so intrusive, she could block the number and remove the irritation, particularly as it is disturbing her baby.

Boudica1990 · 07/07/2014 18:30

flowery don't give serious answers...that ruins the fun.

I think OP should phone the BBC and make this headline news

Original poster
Lilannii · 07/07/2014 18:34

Flowery, just to let you know. The person in charge of the list is also the person I handed my stuff into when I quit :s

OP posts:
BillnTedsMostFeministAdventure · 07/07/2014 18:35

OP, since you didn't get texts for a while and now you do, it's possible they moved to a new system but uploaded an old contact list.

Original poster
Lilannii · 07/07/2014 18:40

I am just stating the person in charge of the list was the person I told I quit

OP posts:
DottyDooRidesAgain · 07/07/2014 18:44

BUT it would stop the baby being woken up! OP could then right a letter formally and her baby can sleep peacefully.

Won't nobody think of the BABY. Shock

BillnTedsMostFeministAdventure · 07/07/2014 18:45

It's possible that the person in charge of the list is away, if they haven't yet called you back.

hobblebobble · 07/07/2014 18:47

Slithy obviously loves the chance to claim compensation for an error that actually causes no harm.

HayDayQueen · 07/07/2014 18:47

Bill - are you even reading the OP's posts? Confused

DottyDooRidesAgain · 07/07/2014 18:51

Right! Right! Stupid damn auto correct bollocks Angry

My apologise 'o' gentle folk of mumsnet. That obviously should have been write. My phone is an idiot.

Original poster
Lilannii · 07/07/2014 18:55

She is there, my mum works for the same company and has seen her, even talked to her

OP posts:
slithytove · 07/07/2014 19:01

Hobble what on earth are you on about? Where have I once mentioned anyone claiming compensation?

hobblebobble · 07/07/2014 19:01

So your mum could also have passed a message for you and asked for you to be removed from the contact list? Oh dear it gets worse

DottyDooRidesAgain · 07/07/2014 19:04

Slithy moonlights for NO Win No Fee solicitors don't ya know. Grin Grin Grin

The thread has it's funny back. [smile

Boudica1990 · 07/07/2014 19:05

This just keeps getting better Grin

So your mother is able to handle the situation as she is still employed, and could even hand deliver your letter but yet you still moan?!

HermioneWeasley · 07/07/2014 19:16

It takes all sorts....

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/07/2014 19:24

Lilannii - what sort of 'case' are you planning to build against your former employers, and why is it so all-fired important that it is worth more days of disturbed baby and frustration? What are you hoping to achieve or gain?

Whatever it is, is it really worth standing on the 'principle' instead of just blocking the number?