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Falsely Accused at Work?
arod_77
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So ive' been working this pretty great job at a law firm--a part time position I got through a friend who is a partner at said firm--and things have been going pretty well for everyone involved.
Last week I fucked up my timeclock and ran up like 12 hours in a day or something ridiculous--and this morning I got called out on it. My bad. No arguments here. However during my session with the office manager to discuss my infraction--he mentioned that he revoked my weekend working priviliges--again pretty understandable and I am not about to argue with it--however then he goes on to demand my "office swipe card back"
This is that nifty little card that gets you into the building the firm is located in during the weekends.
However...I have never been given one at all.
I requested a swipe card once before a couple weeks ago for convenience--but I was denied pretty categorically by the same office manager. "Oh well you can just get the guards to let you in usually on the weekends"
I am a little paranoid about this accusation being a manafactured lynchpin in an attempt to get me fired--because I know very well that he is looking to hire 2 full time people to do what I am doing now as a part time employee.
I don't really know how to respond to this-- his word is a thousand times more credible than mine but I have scoured everywhere for this magical "Swipe card" and cannot remember ever having one.
Last week I fucked up my timeclock and ran up like 12 hours in a day or something ridiculous--and this morning I got called out on it. My bad. No arguments here. However during my session with the office manager to discuss my infraction--he mentioned that he revoked my weekend working priviliges--again pretty understandable and I am not about to argue with it--however then he goes on to demand my "office swipe card back"
This is that nifty little card that gets you into the building the firm is located in during the weekends.
However...I have never been given one at all.
I requested a swipe card once before a couple weeks ago for convenience--but I was denied pretty categorically by the same office manager. "Oh well you can just get the guards to let you in usually on the weekends"
I am a little paranoid about this accusation being a manafactured lynchpin in an attempt to get me fired--because I know very well that he is looking to hire 2 full time people to do what I am doing now as a part time employee.
I don't really know how to respond to this-- his word is a thousand times more credible than mine but I have scoured everywhere for this magical "Swipe card" and cannot remember ever having one.
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I don't see what the problem is...?
Think of the card as being like a futuristic 'key' granting access to the office during hours when very few staff are around.
Get them to check the swipe logs (or whatever they call them) against "your" card number that they think you have. No swipes should show because... you know... you don't have a card.
Just explain the situation exactly as it is.
What other options are there?
I know what a card is.
I don't understand what the boss is accusing him of doing.
As far as I understand:
arod requests key card. Manager denies him. A few weeks later, he gets into trouble. The manager says, "oh, and by the way, we'll be needing that key card back," but of course he doesn't have one because that same manager told him he couldn't have one.
Either the manager is trying to accuse him of stealing a card or he just has a ridiculously bad memory (or is faking to get arod fired).
Or did arod immediatly flee back to his cubical to find evidence he never had a card?
If he asked you for a card you never got and you knew that you never got one you should have said as much right on the spot.
Saying that you would look makes it sound like you did have one, and now it's just going to sound like you're an idiot and you're trying to cover up losing it when you go back and tell him you never got one.
What you need to do, and right away, is go back, and tell your manager that he denied you a key card. I don't know how you're going to explain away the fact that you were going to go look for one, but you need to be straight forward with the man. asap.
Probably best to tell him "by the way, I never actually got a card" soonest.
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