We enter the last month of 2010, It has been an interesting sort of year, which has had many highs and lows, I will begin with January, The interview with vosa, which had me attend, I was then backed in to a corner by the interviewer, who had made assumption of me, before I had even entered the room, my crime, was doing my job, and lets just say some of the things the interogator was accusing me of were damning. It was for paperwork issues at my former employer. I held my ground, whilst he was trying to crack me. It was the typical tactics used by a man who thought he was still in the police force. Now a piece of advice I will give to anyone who is interviewed under caution, is never say ANYTHING, whilst that tape is not rolling, You could accidently say something innocently which will be turned on you. I came out of that interview feeling physically sick. He I come into this industry to be treated like that, no I hadnt. I had a long drive home that night. After the interview followed months of waiting and worry, when the court is involved it is amazing how much stress is involved, and I tried to hide my feelings from friends and members of my family. The Vosa scenario was the talking point round the yard for weeks, the affect it had on me was catastrophic, I lost confidence in myself and my capabilities, I just wanted to vanish, and felt maybe things would be better that way.
After 3 months, the court papers arrived, and for some reason a copy of my statement was ommitted, so in effect I could not prepare myself, one of my colleagues had copies of invoices. We all found a solicitor to represent. A date was set, And when we attended the hearing it was delayed, and postponed to another date, much to our disgust, all nine of us just wanted to get it over and done with, afterwards, we got drunk in the pub, 2 weeks later the second date was set, we all attended, and received the fine. And that was it done and dusted, Vosa admitted to us that employer was the real target, and the had to prosecute us, to strengthen their case against him. I knew I had to move on at this time, for my sake. So apart from costing me financially, what other damage was caused?, well it broke up a team of people, who had shown commitment, it destroyed the relationship between that team and the employer. There is also family strains that are brought in to the equation. For me personally, It made me go right back into me shell, It affected 2 of my closest friendships.
I found new employment in August 2010, and so far I am enjoying the job, however, I work away from Nottingham, so I dont get to see my friends as often as I wish, This sometimes gets me down. I know 2011, has got to be a better year, and in future I refuse to put my employer before anything else.
One last thing before I go, Before all of this shit exploded, I was in the process of putting together a business plan, to set up a coach business, I was getting somewhere with it all, I had got useful information from the banks, as to getting funding, I was getting contact details with the new enterprise people, about gaining grants, The whole incident destroyed that too. I know I could be a giant if I allowed myself to be. I just need to find the spark, that will start the awakening. We can all achieve things and be what we want to be, we just need to have the balls to do it. So there you go. Lets do it, lets prove some people wrong.
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