21st December
Got an email from Mr SC this morning. He has completed the disciplinaries for Donner, Blitzen and Dasher. Donner and Blitzen did escape with only a final written warning, but he felt he had no option but to dismiss Dasher because he was the transport team supervisor and it seemed that he had been using his extra authority to threaten Donner and Blitzen.
However, Dasher had then appealed the decision – full of remorse for what had started out as no more than a bit of fun and admitting that the ‘power’ had gone to his antlers. He begged Mr SC to reconsider and offered to accept demotion and apologise to RRNR personally. We advised Mr SC to check with RRNR how he would feel about continuing to work with Dasher, before making any decision. We also checked Mr SC’s disciplinary procedure and confirmed that demotion was included amongst the possible penalties, so he can issue a final written warning with demotion if he wishes to.
