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.

You're assuming a lot about OPs employer here, maybe their policy is to not issue temporary passes and if you don't have your pass you can't enter the building, she could have asked whoever issues the passes directly and they took pity on her and gave her a visitor pass to use and let her through without signing in.

Or maybe they are allowed to issue temporary passes, but they don't have a log separately of those and just record them in a visitor sign in book which OP obviously failed to sign.

It doesn't mean they didn't know she was in the building, or who or where she was, but there are reasons it may not have been officially recorded and the most obvious one is that OP should never have had been issued a temporary pass in the first place, and if she did she should have signed in as a visitor, which she obviously didn't do.

If OP had her pass none of this would have happened so she should be willing to give the proof they need instead of digging her heels in over a problem that she has caused.

Glad common sense has prevailed @HanExplorer !

I would love to see your manager's face when they are told they have overstepped

Haha! That's brilliant! How did your manager react?

Glad to hear it OP, awful behaviour from your managers.

No idea yet! But the meeting invite was cancelled without a comment which speaks volumes 😂

Why don’t you print out a copy of your statement and manually redact it using a marker pen? Then take a photo and send it to your boss.

I think you’re being a bit precious but on the other hand your company sounds dreadful.

I think it’s good they have backed down OP, but you were disingenuous to us pretending that you couldn’t print a bank statement and black out the other transactions, your account number etc.

If you had said that you didn’t think you should have to do that, you would have had a better response.

You started a thread asking for advice and then got angry at the advice. Poor form.

Why Google, when each company should have its own policy? The smaller the company, the smaller the time scale usually. My home CCTV has a longer retention period of 30 days with a 512 GB hard drive and four HD cams

Now, if the company had said, We would check, but the retention period has lapsed, then that's a different story, but they didn't; they tried to force the OP's hand with a lie.

Well done @HanExplorer . Common sense has prevailed

The way your company asked you to provide your own highly personal data because of failings in their process was out of order.

Hooray! Victory for common sense but Id be looking for a new role if I were you, you manager's behaviour is not normal or reasonable and I'd really struggle to work for someone who had that little trust in me.

It’s not unreasonable to request proof the statement is hers and not a colleagues. It smacks of deflection and pettiness to not work with them to resolve this, you provided a screenshot, they want indisputable evidence in the form of a redacted full statement, so provide it and challenge toxicity and breaches of employment law going forward? This is not the hill to die on.

And yet the company has admitted they were wrong to ask.

So what if a point has been answered a dozen times? People disagreed with those answers. They are allowed to. If you don't like people doing that, then click away.

@Shesafancyflapjack Sorry disagree. The OP has fully complied with the 2 day pw policy apart from one day when she was there but forgot her pass. She has a great performance record, clearly a valued employee. There was simply zero need to ask for any evidence at all.

You didn’t say you disagreed with the answer, or explain why. You repeated the same question already asked.

It’s not something you can disagree with either, it wasn’t an opinion.

You are saying that some staff are trustworthy and others aren't, and it can be left to a manager to decide which applies? That would be crazy - companies have across-the-board policies to ensure that managers can't use favouritism or prejudice with staff. Imagine if the manager let his mate off but went hard on a new recruit or someone from an ethnic minority? There has to be a single system that applies to everyone.

Great!
I didn't see much "anti WFH" posts on here though, just a lot of "why can't you provide the statement and cover up the bits that you don't want them to see" which you still haven't answered 🤣
Anywho, doesn't matter now

Presumably temporary passes are intended for use by visitors and temporary staff.

I am kind of sad there wasn't a Line-of-duty type investigation, where you pulled out phone GPS and cellphone tower information to prove your location, and a surprise star witness turned up, and then it all went rogue.....
Seriously though, I am glad common sense eventually prevailed.

Great outcome OP, common sense prevails!

Glad all is sorted OP.

Thank fuck it was a victory for you! If you’re that snippy and snarky after a victory, imagine if you’d “lost”.

I’m sure the rest of your household will be much relieved for a peaceful weekend.

Glad to see the hybrid works for you and as you say gives you time to post nonsense in MN.

Well done to you 👏

The world is full of time wasting idiots (that get paid far too much).

I’d be pretty damn sarky after all the tripe dealt out on this post, good on the op for standing up for herself.

Glad you’ve got a good outcome and the company’s flaws in the system have been highlighted. I no longer work but why are people against wfh, I would have loved the opportunity to do that.