This is my son, Simon Kitt. You may know him as Spike, Streaky or Streakz. Earlier this year he moved back to Cornwall and took up employment at Chelfham School for boys with challenging behaviour, a part of the Priory Group. He was thoroughly enjoying the work and had received no complaints about his performance. Two weeks before the end of his six-month induction period he was sacked, the given reason being that one of his references had failed to materialise. No other substantial reason was given, he had had no supervision for 2 months, no warning letters and indeed received no written explanation for the termination of his employment. His line manager was baffled, as were all his colleagues.
Because his employment was terminated before the end of the probationary period he could see no option but to move on and started looking for another job. He applied for a job with Sunshine Care, attended a preliminary interview and was waiting for them to check his references before a formal interview could be arranged. Yesterday he received a letter from them stating that they were enable to offer him employment because Chelfham School had given him an unsatisfactory reference.
A.C.A.S. have advised him that he should not hesitate to pursue legal action, since Chelfham have acted illegally on several counts. Meanwhile, there seems to be a problem with his references, which is crazy since he had a ten-year unblemished employment record prior to this. We'd like to set this straight. If you know and love Spike, please write a short testimonial stating what you know of his character and skills and email it to me at kryskitt@googlemail.com
1 comment:
I would say that reliable, helpful, polite, capable, calm,
always willing, passionate about his work and considerate of colleagues would be a fair description of Simon Kitt.
These are not qualities which abound in all persons but in my opinion and from my experience I consider this a fair description and I would be more than willing to provide a reference to that effect.
This is really peculiar to hear such slighting reports. I have known him for several years and find it hard to understand how he could be seen in any other light.
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