They can ruin your career

Well, what can you expect from a company that intended to install biometric fingerprint systems in the kitchen and toilets for its employees to " enhance productivity"? That on its own tells you how sick and twisted leadership of that company is.

Below is a message I've shared with the CCMA Facebook group. It hope it will assist any person who wish to rent or work with them.

"So I got dismissed for failing to show to work without fully reporting that I wouldn't make it as I had a crisis that morning till afternoon to sort out. There was no final written warning prior to this.

I was employed as a head of marketing with the stipulation that my salary would be reviewed every 3 months since it was too basic. The same "consultants" tasked with this together with HR are the same people who were also responsible for my disciplinary processes. I found out that my contract was a combination of two senior roles from different companies merged to one. This made it difficult to complete certain duties that seemed to be outside of the marketing scope. Attempts to enlist assistance did not work as one would always be reminded of budget constraints and as a result I had complete tasks afterhours( sometimes the whole night till morning) and on weekends. I also find out that while colleagues were getting increases, I would be taken to DC's for not " performing according to expectations" which I saw as an excuse not to review my income. I even find out that people I was managing were earning 3 times my salary through channels I thought were not clean( reported to the director who only delegated the task of dealing with matter perhaps because it also involved his relatives).

Cut a long story short, I got dismissed on an unrelated matter and told to go to CCMA. I didn't and provided the director with a personal reason but now I realize on UIF, the records say I was dismissed which may send a wrong message to potential employers. I know for a fact that fairness or rather fair labour laws are not followed in that organization as about 4 staff members left without a proper goodbye.

Is there any form of a recourse or advise in dealing with a situation like this. Thanks"