New Boss Threatening

[Bakedtattie55]

I started a new job a couple weeks ago and absolutely love the company I am working for already. They are a well known UK company that really value their employees. However, my manager does not reflect their values at all. I have a list the length of my arm of red flags and am already looking for other employment as I can tell he is not someone I can work with. He has already told me private personal information about my new colleagues and been inappropriate in many ways. One of the biggest issues for me was he suggested that he checks up on the staff via CCTV when he is off on AL to make sure nobody is chatting to one another. I was really taken aback by this as we are all adults working in a professional environment and I have never had a manager behave like this before! It got me thinking, is this even legal? Can managers use CCTV to watch staff for no reasonable reason? I understand for security purposes or whatever but to make sure colleagues aren’t speak to each other seems extreme.

I coped the person who interviewed me as my Team leader. During the interview I wasn't sure about them and just thought oh they are the interviewer, never through of the ramifications, I don't think they were impressed to end up being my team leader. Very intimidating.

I got told week 2 to never phone in sick, others in this training academy seem to be treated differently.

Already seem one team member in training who did not return after a day of no internet access... and people in other teams are just told not to worry if sick and to call in, like very different rules applies to them...

For a simple gp made in advance of a week's appointment, not only do you have to prove the appointment and made to ring a team leader sickness line so feeling like a call-in sick criminal, before you've even begun, but also provide proof how long it takes to get to the surgery for said appointment. so I wouldn't be sure they can't snoop on you. Sorry.

I have never had to provide this extensive proof before. In my case the surgery I'm asked to attend to discuss a diabetics medication problem has no patient car parking and so relies on me to either park in a public car park or in a supermarket I'll have to shop in to avoid a fine. Why the hell would I want to lie where I was going at 5pm on a Friday! plus the work-from-home company is based in London and I'm in a town in the eastern counties. Not idea how they can even determine what traffic is or isn't like round this way.

I phoned the 'sick line' this lunchtime who ultimately had my TL in touch a few hours later today asking for the confirmation of the appointment duly provided so seemingly all problems are sorted now for Friday.