james160987

post aimed at people who may have been through the same or have good legal knowledge

So the story begins,

i work in an insurance dep on a dialler based system ( this is a new system we now have) this system automatcilly dials numbers in a database and when someone picks up connects the call to a operator ( me) now whilst it was doing this we have a blank screen on our computer,

our comapny policy is no personal internet usage, but untill recently they decided to allow, reading of books, magazines, browsing the net etc,

they decided to take it away the other day, i was still browsing after that, ( just to note when we use the internet, and a customer connects in brings they systems page to the front) they argue i could lack concentration on this but cant prove it, nor can they prove it decrease my work performace, i cant argue it doesnt either, but im not the worse performer in our workplace..

im now on suspention wating for my meeting monday-

now my points in this are-
I wasnt onyl browsing when we had no work on
i didnt visit any sites such as porn,illegal activites etc
the company seems to change its view on policys and enforcement when it chooses, like 3 weeks ago i was told it was fine being online despit the comapnys internet policy,
No one else has been pulled for this- ( they gave me a list about 20 pages long of sites saysing excessive use, which when i examined was alot of the same site, ) it was actually about 25 pages in a 2 hour period,
i have seen managers and other employees online, some have sent sexual expliti content in a email to others, and none of this has been pulled up.

now i think ( i am unsure) i may have 1 previos warning for this, but cannot be sure, they say ive been warned on numerous occasions, ( i havent and there is no record of it, other than the 1)

the company or dep i work in is a trail at the moment, if it doesnt work we all get made redunant and the other day they told us things are not working at the moment,

i feel a little like a scape goat if im dismissed over this as a warning for other employee's, and dont agree it should be counted as gross misconduct which they are classing it as

if i do lose my job ( i would hope to be given a final warning) but if worse comes to worse do i have a case for unfair dismissal,

as im on the understadning, they could have given me a final warning, with time scale for improvement, and also that the comapnys policys are confusing in there enforcement,

?any advice or help would be great, im very new to this,