Manager bullying after I raised concerns

[Pineappletiger]

Good morning everyone,

I need advice please:

job role in leisure centre, 16hr contract. The other days I work self employed as a PT.

My manager informed me off shift that my Pt floor rent has to be on a specific day, she suggested a day to accounts which doesn’t suit me at all as I have major outgoings and need to balance my books. I am a sole trader and my business is very new.

She then chases the payment as I could only pay 2/3rds and I questioned why I am being chased but another PT isn’t paying his full payment and a former colleague of my boss is down as a staff member and Pts for free even though he isn’t staff.

I’ve raised this and now she is speaking ill of me behind my back. I have complained to her about an operational issue (pool left unguarded with kids in as a colleague refused to lifeguard) and she has now put a grievance in about me. Something she has exaggerated.

I feel she’s bullying me but I don’t know what to do. I have emailed HR but not sure what to expect. Grievance meeting is on Friday. It’s a month old allegation of doing my nails on shift (yes, really). It was at break time and isn’t forbidden but it’s also a month old and only been brought up now in a tit for tat manner. Colleague who got asked by manager said I did it in my break time - nothing transpired - until now.

I‘m sorry this all ready really clumsily and sounds petty - it probably is but the operational risk of an unguarded pool isn’t. Said colleague didn’t want to do his duties and as I am not a manager I couldn’t make him.

where do I stand?

she has changed her tune

and seems odd for this chap to be so on it re the water checks

but not the life guarding!

and all this caught on CCTVso surely open and shut case??

He refused to but someone had to take the water tests.

but someone didn’t need to lifeguard

all very odd

Who plays on their phone behind reception when people are walking past all the time.

or indeed does their nails as people are walking by

i suspect any difference in charging is the difference between self employed (pay more) and employed

she's changed her tune

Sorry, but she hasn't. At no point did she say she left the pool unattended. Posters asserted to her that she MUST have been the one to leave it unattended

She again said she did not. She radioed for shift change. He came to do the tests, she left (and reiterated he was there when she left). Completely normal set of things for a lifeguard to do when starting their shift. She had no reason to think he'd leave

She then noticed he'd ambled back to reception

My only question for the OP is why she waited until the next day to escalate it

She may have rambled a bit but her story hasn't changed

But I think the OP has left after getting such a pile on. And I don't blame her.

He refused to go onto poolside. Yes all on cctv

but he managed to do the water checks 😐

I think the water tester was a different person the the lifeguard who refused.

how did your meeting go op?