For those showing interest in the case of our young employee, it has now become clear that it has been events outside the company in the employee's life which became the trigger for the happenings in our offices on Saturday morning.
He requested of his line manager (The Assignment Team Controller) on Tuesday of last week if he could have Thursday and Friday off as holiday being it was his Birthday. He was informed that the request was rather late in coming, but it was granted. The foregoing left the team short on personnel and in that they were unable to fully complete an incident investigation at a sewage treatment plant on Friday in a reasonable time, which meant that the team would be required to work on Saturday in the office.
However, our employee had gone out with some friends to celebrate his birthday on the Thursday evening and while in a restaurant he had a couple of glasses of wine. On driving out of the car park later he then had a minor vehicle accident with another car. On exchanging details with the other driver, he was asked if he had been drinking, to which he responded by being verbally abusive and driving off in his car.
By the time he arrived home, the police were waiting for him and he was breathalysed taken to the station where he was eventually charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol and drugs. In the forgoing, he was then held by the police until mid-morning Friday, by which time by his own admittance his mind was in "absolute turmoil".
In the meantime, he had been emailed by his line manager that the Assignment team would be working in the office on Saturday commencing at 8:30 am to which he arrived at 9:20 wearing the now-famous Tee-Shirt which triggered all the events already discussed in this thread.
He was suspended over the incident in the office pending a grievance and possible disciplinary hearing against him. However, when I arrived in the office this morning he had contacted the company requesting a "personal meeting" in regard to his situation. That I granted and took that meeting at lunchtime in the company of one of our Legal Secretaries who would act as note taker and witness.
It was at that meeting that all the events of the drink driving etc were disclosed to us as his employer. I reminded him it was part of his contract of employment with us that he would always be required to hold a current UK driving licence. I then suggested that the best way forward for him and us as his employer may well be for him to resign from our employment prior to the hearings tomorrow (Thursday) as that would allow us and him to state he had left our employment of his own volition and with a clean record.
The above he accepted with immediate effect and has now left the company. My thoughts on this matter I will not state, but they in no way would include the word sympathy.