Inquisitors and heretics of XXI.century

Getting fired over a "g.) paragraph" of law isn't sexy at all. Especially when you are 58 years old, when you have finished 15 years of work at Radio ГA / ГA with "very good" and "excellent" performances, and when you still feel fresh, powerful and in demand for them. It is therefore understandable that the state of satisfaction did not appear for me, unlike him.

They prepared the statement collectively and used experience from our local "pre-velvet-revolution" past. Nothing about the fact that some of the authors at that time were "looking at the world from a heaven cloud", or at best they "were dragging a wooden duck" behind them, or they didn't live here at all. After all, he was the one leading them now - the one with the only truth and with the right colour of passport!

But how to arrange delivery? When Christmas and New Year's time ran like that?!

And so they put their heads together and on January 20, 2020, I finally got it. After 54 days of waiting in uncertainty, it finally caught up with me at home, in my house arrest on "employer side obstacles", which I spent only on email and phone as strictly prescribed by their team. And they had no mercy on me. As it was written, it was also delivered. No questioning and no investigation, no right to a defence and with no testimony.

Like from the time of the Inquisition, with only one truth – the truth of the inquisitor.

Preparations started a week before. The super-humans realised that they had spent the pre-Christmas, Christmas and New Year's time resting, and after returning from a well-deserved rest they calculated that they could miss the deadline for my termination delivery. At that time, I still didn't know and didn't believe that I could get fired.

Even so, HR. Manager #MS ("Mr.Sushi") got the first task of the implementation deadline to arrange it. After all, he had only 10 days left and the "deadline" for delivering the notice was so relentless! The task was - "either you make yourself or you are undone!"

And so on January 15, 2020, his psychological terror began. Through a series of phone calls, interspersed with emails, he tried to get me to hand over something that he said he couldn't tell me exactly, that I should just come to work. First, that he needs to talk to me. So I told him to keep talking, I'm listening. He said it could not to tell to the phone. So I offered to meet him for coffee. But he answered that it wouldn't be possible, that he can only tell me details at work. In fact, it was very comical :-) I think that he is "nothing much" in the female "packaging techniques".

And so he started with practices where he is as a "downsizing specialist" definitely better. He said I am an employee of the famous Radio ГА / ГA and that it is my "dog duty" to arrive whenever he calls me. When I reminded him of his signature specifying "obstacles on the part of the employer" which he signed with me in a weak moment on 20/12/2019 and according to which he must notify me 3 days in advance when I have to come to work, he angrily flicked the phone.

Here is part of the document in which Radio ГA / ГA informs me of "obstacles on the employer's side". The following is a section in which the telephone number and e-mail address at which I can be reached 24 hours a day is specified, and which, for obvious reasons, I do not provide.

When #MS ("Mr.Sushi") realised that his signature was a signature, he delivered me mail with notification about "end of obstacles on the part of the employer", from which we bring its preview again.

He clearly imagined that as soon as I showed up at work on 20/01/2020, he would give me my notice and give me another "obstacle on the part of the employer".

However, to start from the very beginning.

When I finally broke into his office on 16/12/2019 with a simple question, is it profitable for Radio ГA / ГA for me to just sit in the office and read my emails for the money I receive here, as informed me to my former supervisor #RC("Remotely controlled"), closed the door of his office behind me and started yelling at me that he had to fire me for a loss of trust. Since I did not understand "wo-tco-gou" at the first moment, I countered, let him weigh the words and explain on what basis he makes such a conclusion? That calmed him down and he explained in a calmer tone - "that I clicked". I guess I looked like a "retard" this time, but I couldn't think of anything better than to reply: "But sir #MS ("Mr.Sushi"), I'm paid for clicking! Right?" And he said that it was a "different type of click". So I asked him, what did I do so serious that I suddenly lost trust for Radio ГA / ГA after my click? His answer completely disarmed me - that he doesn't know. I stared at him in disbelief for a moment and then tried to sum it up:

“So you have to fire me for a loss of trust and you don't know on what basis? Don't be angry with me, but in your position, when according to your powers you can basically fire me "at any time", you don't even know what for? To put it mildly, it makes me uneasy!

After these words I left his office and a few hours later I was signing my first "employer side obstacles" in the presence of my American "superhero" #RC("Remotely controlled"). Although his nose was still slightly coloured in brown, he tried to appear dignified as a witness to the "superman's" signing protocol.

But let's go back to the events of January 20, 2020.

As I wrote, 54 days of insomnia began to take its toll on my iron health. Problems with my heart manifested themselves, when I used to have a heart rate over 100 even in sleep, or rather when imitating sleeping. The doctor diagnosed me with tachycardia and prescribed heart medication for the first time in my life. Added to this it was also stress and anxiety, so she also prescribed "head pills" for me. All this escalated on 15.1.2020 after the mentioned psychological pressure of HR manager and about which I informed him by internal mail. At the same time, I informed him that my state of health does not allow me to visit him as he pleases and I sent him a confirmation from the doctor.

And because Radio ГA / ГA has always respected humanism and human rights, it classically sent "someone" else to arrange it to make dirty job. After all, they had the last 6 days left and there was a threat that there would soon be a delay in delivering the notice! In that case, everything goes sideways – the notice must be delivered on time, even if its delivery person has to climb a rope from the technical terrace to the terrace of my apartment.

Meanwhile, my health was deteriorating and on 20.1.2022 I was sent to the Psychiatric Hospital in Bohnice for examination. Here, after a routine examination, I was advised to stay in the local inpatient ward for at least a few days. Since I had to take care of two dumb faces in addition to myself at that time, I signed the reverse and left the institution where none of you, not even I, ever wanted to stay.

I knew from my lawyer, my sister, that this security incident had been reported to "protectors and helpers" (police) and so she pointed out to me that it was possible that they would also ring my doorbell to at least testify. As we still didn't know what I was accused of, I didn't know if this would be done with a finger through the bell or a battering ram through the door.

And so, shortly after I took my next dose of the prescribed powder, an unknown man rang the doorbell of my apartment, asking to contact me. I thought - "they're coming for you"! The fact that they were able to find me in an apartment building of 182 mostly unmarked apartment units was enough of an argument for me to open the door, and his relentless ringing of the doorbell helped.

He asked me if it was me. When I confirmed that I did, I was asked to show him my ID. As if in a dream, I returned to the apartment and handed him the ID card for inspection. He took it, wrote down the information on a piece of paper and handed it back to me. He then handed the piece of paper on which he wrote down the information from the ID card to me for checking and signing. It was still gravely silent and I know it very well - I was terribly afraid. Then he handed me the paper in such a hurry that it slipped and fell to the ground. I thought it was his paper, so I hurriedly bent down to get it. Then I heard his unforgettable "and I wish you a lovely rest of the day", accompanied by the winner's mocking grimace, followed by his hasty dash to the elevators.

He had earned his "grumpy money" and I finally found out what HR manager #MS (Mr.Sushi) wanted to say to me at the time.

In order to give due seriousness to this pamphlet, Radio ГA / ГA started to offer my position on the Internet as a vacancy even before its delivery (see advertisement dated 20.1.2020, the position is listed last in the table).

It didn't matter to Radio ГA / ГA that the GDPR was grossly violated during the delivery of the notice, when this document, including my personal data, was accessible to other third parties. At the same time, the Labor Code was violated, specifically § 61 paragraph 1., for violation of which the company faces a fine of several million crowns.

Here is a short quote from him:

The employer is obliged to discuss termination or immediate termination of the employment relationship with the trade union in advance, if the trade union operates at the employer; this obligation is imposed by § 61 paragraph 1 of the Labor Code.

Discussion means communication of the employer's intention to terminate a certain employee or immediately terminate the employment relationship with a certain employee and "hearing" the opinion of the trade union (opinion of the trade union at the same time, it is completely non-binding for the employer; the employer may take into account the possible negative opinion of the trade unions on the termination of the employment relationship and possibly withdraw from the termination of the employment relationship, but does not have to follow it at all).

Here, for completeness, I present the "Position of the Trade Union Organisation", which I was also a member of.

The legal department of Radio ГA / ГA, specifically #LA("Leklá Andělka"), is responsible for both violations of the law.

According to her answer to the question of the "Trade Union", why she did not discuss my resignation, and thus did not fulfil her duty under the Labor Code, she answered that she had (exceptionally) forgotten in my case.

I therefore turned to the Labor Inspectorate with an initiative and I am currently still waiting for the results of the inspection. At the same time, I filed two lawsuits against Radio ГA / ГA – for the invalidity of the notice and against discrimination.

I will provide a detailed description of the reasons for my resignation in one of my next posts.