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Let go by text message

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  • 16-01-2018 6:59pm
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    munsterdevil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    I was let go just after Christmas, just 4 days before I was due to go back, by TEXT MESSAGE of all things. I was an English teacher at a language school.

    I don't want to go into too much detail but the reason given was that my student reviews were down, but not by much. I let him know that I took issue with his review system as it was only the second one in 5 months. I also questioned his choice of delivering the news.

    Nothing in my contract prohibited the use of text message to inform me of such a thing, but I am wondering if this is now relatively common practice in the Irish workplace?


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    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    It's not common. It's not illegal.
    Review the place on glassdoor and google places.


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    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    Tenigate wrote: »
    It's not common. It's not illegal.
    Review the place on glassdoor and google places.

    In a small industry you risk something like that coming back to haunt you. Chalk it down to experience op, and maybe a lucky escape.


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    munsterdevil
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭munsterdevil


    davo10 wrote: »
    In a small industry you risk something like that coming back to haunt you. Chalk it down to experience op, and maybe a lucky escape.

    Yeah, I'd always be slow in going down that road, it would be obvious who I was and I still need references etc.


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