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.

That’s ridiculous op! I’d print my statement and go with a pink sharpie all over the other transactions.

In which case print the screenshot, use a marker pen to cover sensitive information, then photocopy it.

Or involve the other colleague who can vouch for OP.

Then I would suggest a change of temp pass system to record who has them.

Can’t you print the statement and black out the other transactions then hand them the physical statement?

Yes, but in order for security to hand it over to my manager for review they first would need to blur anyone else in view and that’s been deemed by them as ‘too time consuming’ for the issue at hand! Given it’s not a security incident or similar. Which shows how ridiculous this whole thing is.

This?

If they do have no record of you being in office then that I would raise as a pretty fucking serious concern.

If there a fire or any other need to clear the building, how the fuck do they know how many people are inside on temp passes and where they would be?

print the statement our and black or cover the remaining transactions if you don't trust using something digital to cover them

do you not have CCTV in your building which would place you there

Snap! Just said the same thing you did.

And what happens then if the people who are supposed to be protecting the data for temporary passes are also in charge of permanent passes, and something goes wrong with that too?

Sometimes the path of least resistance is the best approach. It’s silly, but not a big deal. Perspective it’s important.

1. Your DP is wrong. Extremely classified documents get redacted.
2. If you don’t trust computers, print it off, cut out the irrelevant parts and scan what’s left. Send them the scan.
3. As I already said, print a filtered bank statement with only the relevant transactions and your details. They can’t unredact what’s not there.

There are so many solutions to your objections that your refusal would make any employer suspicious tbh.

1- redact all other information not relevant on your bank statement
2- you will have been issued the temp pass and your own company security would have a record of that
3- cctv in your company of that day. All they need to look at is the area where you picked up the temp pass
4- IT ought to have a record of you logging into the system that day and the location you logged in from

most of the above is information already in possession by your company

of note, you will not be the only person who has forgotten their pass and been issued w a temp pass on the day.

Ask what protocol there is for that concerning both attendance record and fire safety because if you didn’t have your pass recording you entering and leaving, then they must have a record of temp passes and visitor passes so they would know how many people and who were in the building for fire safety purposes. There is a record. Go see HR to clear this up and also to find out what you need to do should you forget your pass again. Whatever that procedure is, needs to be disseminated to all staff again as clearly neither you, your manager nor their manager know what that is.

No, a screen grab of the front page of the app will show the transaction listed against the clearing date of 23rd. Only the proper statement with details will show that it actually happened on 22nd,

They are asking for a proper statement with details as opposed to a screen grab of one transaction (likely taken from the summary page on the app) which will likely only show the clearing date, not the date the transaction was effected.

I guess the OP could click through to the details page and screenshot that with full details, but I suspect it won't show what she wants it to show...

Provide a copy showing all the information they are requesting but simply redact all balances, direct debits etc…….you have no need to show any of that.

Print it out and “redact” with a Sharpie. Then scan.

Your boss sounds petty AF.

So we're just back to the OP is lying then.

Dark it out, screenshot it, send a pic of the screenshot.

or make up the extra day. Your choice

If it is online, do you have an app that you can log onto in front of your manager and show them your transaction? Or log on to your bank on the works computer and show them that transaction. Or log on on a teams call, share your screen and show them you logging on without disclosing your password, and then show them that trans action?

well print the statement and use a marker pen to redact and dont let them take it

however, if you black out on screen and then print to pdf they wont be able to see your subscription to OF

So printing out a bank statement, blanking out info, handing it to the jobsworth to prove this, then disposing of the printed piece of paper yourself is job done.

You really need to stop over thinking this, your information is everywhere, if someone wants to hack your details or whatever, the tin foil hat is not going to protect you. 🤷🏼

Printit the statement and cover other transactions with permanent marker. Or black out in paint/pdf editor or something manually.

Look for a new job. And when you leave, tell them why and throw in an assumption that based on the lack of trust towards you, you assumed they wanted you out.

This is fairly typical of CCTV IME.

When anyone actually wants to use it to investigate or prove something it's deemed "too much hassle".

I think you know it is perfectly possible to print the statement, redact the parts with a black sharpie and then send them a scanned copy. I wonder why you would not do that.

Your banking is paperless but you can get a paper copy if needed, print the page you require of your statement and use a sharpie to cross out everything you don’t need them to see.