To refuse to provide bank statement to my work to prove I was in the office

[HanExplorer]

I’ve found myself in a very unusual situation and am standing firm so far despite pressure.

I work in a hybrid role with a requirement to attend our office twice a week, this is measured monthly based on card swipe data. On one of the days in May, I forgot my pass so was issued a temporary one to use that day.

Earlier this month my manager flagged I was showing a day short for office attendance in May and said I’d need to make up a further day in June. I looked at the dates they had on record and quickly realised the missing one was when I had the temporary pass so that obviously hadn’t registered on the system.

I explained this to my manager and she still maintained I’d need to attend an extra day to balance the totals on the system as there ‘wasn’t any record of me attending’.

I realised I’d spent money in the on site restaurant that day and there’d be a record on my bank showing the company name. I screenshotted this on my phone, cropped it so you could see the date and sent it to my manager.

She has checked with her manager and told me that I need to provide a copy of a bank statement which shows my name and the transaction - that would of course also show all my other activity!!

This has been dragging on and I’m standing firm so far, but I’ve had a call booked in with my manager and her manager for tomorrow and I’m wary of what they are going to say.

My office is over an hours train journey each way so not a case of driving 5 minutes down the road to work a further day - regardless, I don’t feel I should do out of principle.

Your workplace sounds awful, and extremely petty. Do they think you’ve screen shotted someone else’s bank statement. But, I’d do as others have said, redact every other single thing on there and tell them to tighten up temporary pass security.

I couldn't be bothered with this, I would just print my statement, black out all details other than my name and the relevant entry using a sharpie (doing it both sides) and send it to them

edited to add did you use work computers as a printout from there should show you logged on in the building or they could ask the restaurant to confirm the date of the transaction

Places that I have worked
If a temporary pass was issued, we also had to sign in & out in a book or on a computerised screen.

Although one work place did not have enough work passes for everyone & we had to share. I asked for individual passes to be provided, but this was turned down due to cost. It was ridiculous !
Go into office
Pick up pass
Park car in car park up the road
Give the pass to the next person
Chaos !

Calling absolute BS on this one. You won't sove this because you are not prepared to print a bank statement and use a black pen, they won't solve it because they won't look at cctv images without blurring out other people, which doesn't actually need to be done when looking at security footage as the only record kept will you were on it or not and looking at it will be the few minutes you said you arrived no other records are kept so no blurring required. You didn't nothing at work that proves you were there apart from one phone call Nobody saw you at work, no login can identify where you logged in. No email can identify you were using the office server and not remote access. It all bull shit, OP.

Oh, forgot. They don't keep records of issuing and receiving back temp passes (no where does that) and nobody can say you hot one. And to top it all with this run of bad luck, the system doesn't recordd entry when it is accessed with a temp pass. You are taking the piss, OP. This is either all made up to poke debate about employers accessing info, or you weren't there.

Nobody is missing the point. They can just see a bigger picture than you can.

Jesus OP. They're being dicks.

The fact that they're subjecting you to almost criminal investigation-level scrutiny about being 1 day short in the office (that has already been explained), says a lot about management practice and treatment of employees as your workplace. Can't believe they've asked you for a screenshot of your bank statement.

This is all a bit ridiculous

What a load of admin time for you (and manager) for nothing! What does the odd day really matter? They’re being petty. YANBU

If you login to online banking instead of your app, you can narrow down to transactions you want to show and pdf a statement showing only those transactions. I had to do this recently and had no idea it could be done before.

Then they need to have a better system in place. If the computer system needs confirmation of everyone in the office it can't be that hard for their IT dept to set something up, or at minimum have a physical sign in procedure.

A black marker on a piece of paper is a system?! You really think your work gives a flying fuck about your other transactions, unless you have something you dont want them seeing?! 😂

Enjoy working your extra day

Where I used to work anyone needing a temporary pass (be it employee or visitor) they had to sign into a book (name, time in, time out, pass number). The signing in book was thick enough to go on several months.

If they want to play games, play their games.

Redact all the information and tell them you will only send a redacted copy to HR as it contains personal information/GDPR.

Remember even your home address is considered private information that your manager needs to have a valid reason to have access to.

But first you will contact HR for clarification on what the formal process, abiding by the company's legal GDPR obligations, is for this as you feel there fundamental breakdown of trust. It deeply concerning I feel as though I am being accused of not only not attending the office, but also effectively being accused by two managers of dishonestly and fabrication of evidence and being forced to provide bank statements containing my private information in an unsafe manner.

Start looking for another job.

I mean you can easily redact the info but you also work for a bunch of arses so tick this pathetic little box for them, meanwhile look for another job.

Honestly @HanExplorer is this what you want to be known for by your manager and grand-manager?

Agree to work in office the extra day or use the reasonable suggestions that the 400+ people have given you. If you dig your heels in you are really going to be viewed as ridiculous, petty, and a pain in the butt.

Just filter the bank statement and print it. Problem solved.

Yes, I wonder that too.
I think you're just being deliberately awkward for the sake of it.

It's either that or you do an extra day in the office next month.

Print the bank statement out and use black marker to redact the other info?!

Or just go into the office another day!

Agree with others, redact your bank statement - you can print it out at the bank, which is a pain, but I’d also be looking for another job, this is just insane!

I often wondered about the psychology behind the Stanford Prison experiment.

Between this situation and lickdown i feel quite enlightened.

The history to this will be a very poor relationship between the OP and management.

Clearly…. The Op has taken the piss in the past.

OP, just show them the evidence.

and start job hunting.

Print the statement out. Black is out everything else with a marker pen. Take a photo of it. And send on. That’s pletty much cyber security foolproof

I also question the reasoning behind going to the office when no one knows you’re even there! Seems totally pointless.