Re: The three-week trial
Exactly.
I find myself employed these days by a major owner/operator of British infrastructure (not BT I might add).
We have loads of procedures in place to keep us safe, but we also have tight budgets and stressed managers.
Safety above everything goes out the window when there's a panic on. Yes, we can refuse to carry out an unsafe task by following our procedures, and no, there will be no immediate consequences as long as we were justified. But you can bet your last that your name will be up in neon lights to every manager and will suddenly find itself making its way up redundancy lists (which are regular enough to be a constant threat). Find yourself in that situation more than once and you are branded a troublemaker.
We don't know the pressures this worker was under and though it doesn't make it right, managers still put workers in bad positions.
Anonymous, because I've potentially just slagged off the company that pays my mortgage.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
