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summary: Me and a colleague asked to go on free training (minus travelling and hotel) from a company that sells us a particular product, we were told no as they thought it was more sales than technical, so me and my colleague went ourselves, in our own time and money, as just ourselves and not representing our company and we have a disciplinary.
Full story,
Me and my colleague got some training a few months back from a product partner and they invited us down to there partners meeting etc for some training on new kit etc.....
We asked our bosses if we could go and if work would pay, we were told straight up no as they thought it was more sales oriented (which was said in the email), we told our partner however they said well you can come yourself if you want
so we asked our direct boss, he said yeah you shouldn't of needed to ask or pay yourself just go and he informed another higher up to see if we could get the holiday back, we didn't hear anything back about the holiday but never mind
so we booked and traveled down and whilst we were down there today we got an email with a meeting invite to product disciplinary ....... so we called up asking if it was a joke or not and no ....
Now I've chatted to my boss about this and he went nuts over this notion of crazyness and I have an apparent meeting about this tomorrow with my colleague, now my boss has a meeting before this about this mess and hopefully i don't have to go in...
but has anyone any suggestions for this etc ???
summary: Me and a colleague asked to go on free training (minus travelling and hotel) from a company that sells us a particular product, we were told no as they thought it was more sales than technical, so me and my colleague went ourselves, in our own time and money, as just ourselves and not representing our company and we have a disciplinary.
Full story,
Me and my colleague got some training a few months back from a product partner and they invited us down to there partners meeting etc for some training on new kit etc.....
We asked our bosses if we could go and if work would pay, we were told straight up no as they thought it was more sales oriented (which was said in the email), we told our partner however they said well you can come yourself if you want
so we asked our direct boss, he said yeah you shouldn't of needed to ask or pay yourself just go and he informed another higher up to see if we could get the holiday back, we didn't hear anything back about the holiday but never mind
so we booked and traveled down and whilst we were down there today we got an email with a meeting invite to product disciplinary ....... so we called up asking if it was a joke or not and no ....
Now I've chatted to my boss about this and he went nuts over this notion of crazyness and I have an apparent meeting about this tomorrow with my colleague, now my boss has a meeting before this about this mess and hopefully i don't have to go in...
but has anyone any suggestions for this etc ???
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