u/I-Hate-Clonmel

Will keep this brief to avoid giving too much detail on an upcoming case but wondering if someone can give me some insight into what to expect.

Short story: took job at American company based in Dublin.

First 2 months given positive feedback, month 3 person returns from mat leave and I get moved to “buddy” up with her to finish ramp.

She immediately takes a dislike to me and tells my manager I’m not up to “company standard” and throws me under the bus for her mistakes.

Month 3 manager tells me I’m now “behind” but (in writing) tells me it’s her fault because she had me ramp with someone from the wrong department.

Week later I change manager.

Said co workers continues to spread lies about me to new manger, I documented it and caught her lying so made a formal complaint. Manager claimed it was my fault then a week later terminated my contract.

HR denied I ever made a complaint, then after showing screenshots of complaint claimed it wasn’t a complaint, then I showed them emails recapping a meeting where I named the person and showed evidence to my manager who relied and did not dispute it.

Then they still claimed it wasn’t a bullying complaint but also did a full bullying investigation (without interviewing me) and cleared everyone of any wrong doing.

They insisted my termination was due to multiple performance warning.

I did a DSAR and they could not

Produce any documents with negative performance warnings but the investigation did have a document from the employee admitted she had lied about things to my manager, and my manager admitting she might not have realised I was making a bullying complaint.

I was told that unfair dismissed doesn’t apply but IR could as they failed on the processes and never investigated a bullying complaint, then denied it happened.

I also used ethic point and they said they won’t investigate as the company claim no complaint exists.

The WRC wrote to company and company replied to say X person would be lead council.

The replied 20 days later to say the company had failed to respond and had not opted out of it (which they were entitled to do) so the case would now proceed.

It’s been about 4 months and no updated.

Wondering if anyone can tell me what to expect, I know it’s non binding

Hey there just wondering if this is a localised issue or if it happens in other places.

There is one parkrun event near me in Dublin, Ireland that seems to have a lot of negative feedback.

On Reddit alone there has been multiple threads, and I’ve personally had a few small negative interaction (not as bad as the ones mentioned in some post). I’ve also seen some posts on other social media sites.

Issue here seems to be it’s a massive park, but they start it during the 2 hours a day the park has an “off leash” rule for dog walkers, and they do a double lap around the dog park, along with 1 or 2 other tight bottlenecks where people are being shouted at by race participants to move, or being told by volunteers to avoid paths and give way to race goers, and in once incident a dog was kicked while being used as a hurdle.

From what I’ve experienced it’s a small minority, but they claim to have over 650+ participants so that small minority can make a lot of noise.

The run goes past a dog park, the main entrance to the park, goes by a playground and ends right next to the Saturday market. So ultimately they run through all the popular parts of the park, although I believe it’s also the flattest part of the park.

I’ll be honest in the Reddit threads the participants don’t do parkrun many favours and tend to get defensive or even nasty, telling people to keep their dogs away while the run is on, or to let them have them use the paths and “use common sense and don’t get in the way of people running a race”, and tend to come off entitled (like telling dog walkers to not use the dog park and find somewhere else).

I’ve also read comments with people saying they stopped going and attend smaller ones now due to some people behaviour.

In my personal experience I’ve just found it’s bad course design going through populated areas and a few bad apples who think they are going for Olympic gold.

But ultimately it’s causing friction and issues with the wider public.

Have you ever been involved (and would

Love to hear from organisers if they are on here) in an event that was getting pushback from other members of the public? Or had to deal with a few people being dicks about it?

How was it resolved amicably