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.

Oh dear. Some people just like to creates more stress in their life.
you have so many options to prove you were in that day (see PPs) and yet you re choosing to have a stand off with your company.
if ai was your manager, i d be very reluctant to help you in the future if you find yourself in pickle re: days, off days, etc. You sound like an almighty PIA

no wonder it is so hard for an employer to hire… where is the common sense gone.

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Hilarious

I would also be very cautious of providing your bank statement - even redacted, as your name and address, employer and whom you bank with could be exploited by a fraudster - to a company that clearly does not understand the importance of keeping personal data secure and accurate.

Except that all of these will surely be on the company’s records already, for personnel and financial reasons?

Redact everything else other than the relevant transaction, they have no right to see any other information.

Did you have to sign for the temporary pass? I know I did when I forgot my pass - sign it out and sign it back in again on leaving. If you did then your Security should have the record.

How do you think the OP is paid every month??

Your employer does not trust you. Is there a reason for that?

If there is a reason, I would be falling over myself to prove I am truthful on this occasion. If no, I would look for another job.

Common sense would say that an employee should be trusted in such a circumstance without having to jump through hoops to "prove" they were in the office.

I can totally understand why the OP would push back on such a request, it's fucking ridiculous.

Surely there is CCTV evidence of you entering the premises? The manager should be asking for that before demanding bank statements.

also there must be an audit of temp passes and who they were given to.

this whole situation is bizarre.

and I wouldn’t feel bad getting a colleague involved. If they can verify you were in the office why wouldn’t you ask them?

Copy of bank statement with every other line blanked out is fine. This level of debate though, not fine at all. I woupd supply it along with my resignation letter.

I don’t think the issue here is how the OP is going to prove she was in the office that day. It’s the fact that she’s being treated like a child who can’t be trusted. I’d redact the other transactions from the bank statement and share it but also would question the company culture and consider other options for the longer term if I was getting to conclusions that didn’t feel right.

Maybe I work for the third one you mentioned 😂 I’ve just asked colleagues in other teams and checked our intranet and no one is aware of instances of bonus being linked to attendance.

Many online bank statements allow you to filter out transactions before screenshotting

This and there is so much abuse of wfh that they need to follow strict processes for all

What a ridiculous place to work.

Did you not have to sign in for security reasons if you didn't have your pass that day? Won't there be a record of that, or of the issue of the temporary pass?

I'd probably submit the statement with data redacted as people have suggested, but I'd also be jobhunting because these people are insufferable.

This

They sound pathetic. Have they really got nothing else to worry about than this? Maybe your manager should find some real work to do. Even if you hadn’t been in the office would the world have ended 🙄

I would also say no OP, employment relationships are supposed to be based on trust, and you’ve provided sufficient information so far.

I’m so glad I don’t work for arseholes like this and the amount of people who seem to think it’s fine is also depressing.

In over 30 years of attending work, I cannot think of a single time I forgotten my work pass.

I just don’t understand how this stuff happens

It just shows the ridiculousness of mandatory office attendance. If OP was really required in the office someone would have noted that she was missing on that day surely? Unless it's just a tick box exercise....

I’d be of the thinking it was up to them to prove I wasn’t there and then I’d show no more interest in the matter.

God Id find a new job how toxic and ridiculous do they not trust their staff

Really? Maybe not everybody is as perfect as you are?

Really? You can't understand why someone in a bit of a rush in the morning might leave something at home? You've never, ever, ever gone out the house and realised you've left your phone/ purse/ keys/ shopping bag or whatever?

Yes, I agree, it's bonkers

have you told HR what's happening? Is it the whole place that's like this or just one petty manager?

Well exactly

Can no one else say yes I saw OP in that day? And if no one else was in wtf does it matter even if OP wasn’t?

What if OP had made a packed lunch and there was no restaurant payment?

I couldn’t bear working in such a petty workplace full of arseholes