I faked a doctor's letter and now I might be sacked [LBC Legal Hour]
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Sam is considering legal action against his employer for failing to make reasonable adjustments for his disability. But he admits he faked a GP's letter. Daniel delivers a damning verdict.
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His employer was no doubt delighted to discover that his doctor's letter was forged and they could therefore get rid of him.
and yet they didn't, which means if there is evidence they were made aware of this and either dealt with this with a warning or even by choosing to do nothing, then they can't really use that alone as a reason to dismiss him because it suits them. They can use it to demonstrate a pattern of behaviour though.
The geezer sounds like a nightmare. Glad I've not employed him
Gives people with a disability a very bad name.
No it doesn't
He's clearly a liar, he has ADHD sure, but he's clearly got a terrible attitude and he's trying to fall back on the ADHD as a get out of jail card
Despite his ADHD condition, this caller sounds difficult to work with!
Someone with no arms or legs, deaf, blind, mute, and suffering ADHD still wouldn't manage to think of fifteen reasonable adjustments.
How on earth did he get employed in the first place, sounds like a complete nightmare.
What a bonus for the company, an employee as bent as him signed his own P45. What a relief for them and good riddance.
How does he have a blue badge for ADHD?
Prime example of the self entitlement crisis in the UK
You can get one for autism (often comorbid with ADHD) but usually only the most severe forms - a higher functioning person typically wouldn't be eligible. Generally, you wouldn't be able to drive with the level required for a blue badge on the autism score, so it'd be purely for being with someone else.
@@tomsixsix people with that level of autism have mobility issues normally.
This guy if he works at an estate agents in office and drives a car clearly has no or very slight mobility issues. We had to jump through so many hoops to get my gran a blue badge after she had a stroke and could not walk unaided.
This guy certainly appears to just play the system and probably just beats people down until they just give in to get rid of him.
I bet everyone was jumping for joy when the managers suspended him.
He would have lied about having something else. ADHD does not effect your mobility or ability to drive so he wouldn't have got it that way.
Affect...surely as a practising disability law solicitor you'd know the difference between simple words. @@hencole
@@hencole oh it does affect your ability to drive.
He’s gets a pass on the mismanagement of his business affair and not doing paperwork but the doctor letter is outrageous. Needs medicated, not standing desks and 14 other bizarre things.
so rather than "fake a letter" for his disability, instead he fakes a letter that is more inline with getting a standing desk.
this guy genuinely sounds like he can't be trusted in any way shape or form.
How anyone would hire this guy in the first place is beyond me. The person who recruited him should also be fired.
'Are you telling me the truth?' I thought estate agents were always honest 🤣
“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was your night at the theatre?” is the best line I’ve heard in an awfully long time. I’m adding that to my vernacular.
What is the reference?
@fookoff9220it means something massive has been missed
Mr Lincoln was shot at the theatre.
@@CityStays Thanks.
That Mrs Lincoln line was awesome.
What is that reference?
@fookoff9220 Do you know what happened to her husband at the theatre?
@@simonharris4873 I do now.
This person will continually do this throughout his working career, no accountability (because ADHD!).
Until one day an employer says or does the wrong thing and it will be a pay out unfortunately
He sounds a model employee; I can't see why they are prepared to let him go.🤣
Doesn’t want to disclose a disability but wants them to help.
Bet he’s suspended for faking* the GP letter. Don’t quite get why he needs an auto only - he clearly doesn’t have a back problem and adhd isn’t in itself a reason for having an auto.
And standing desk? What utter cobblers.
This guy is an absolute nightmare
I wish Daniel's callers would answer Daniel's questions and not talk all over him.
I absolutely agree with you.
Timewaster thinks he knows it all and now been caught out - reap what he’s sowed
As someone who has ADHD, a standing desk (for recurring back issue) and an automatic car (out of choice) I have no idea why he would relate any of those things to ADHD. He sounds like a complete griffter and how he managed to a blue badge just shows he probably doesnt have abything wrong other than a lack of morality.
They give out blue badges like halloween sweets. If your over 70 they can be sent out on the nod.
@@nifralo2752 So all I have to do is convince them that I am over 70 and I am sorted!
He should be sacked and the employer will be entitled to make clear that he was sacked in his reference. But sadly many do not and so he will be another problem in 6 months.
If i was trying to complete on a house purchase, this is the last guy i would want manging it for me.
Reasonable adjustments then there is taking the piss.
Thinking you have any case against the company after committing fraud is absurd. 😂😂
Thank you 🎉
Peoples are idot
an estate agent a liar?? Impossible!!!!!!
What a clown. Faked a doctors note 😂😂😂😂
What a clown. I would not buy a property from someone like him. Will he forge property valuation
Sounds like a right chancer. Should make a perfect estate agent.
He faked a doctor's letter but they're bogus charges.
What an idiot. “Sam” should change his name to “Scam”. Standing desk, fake GP letter, guy should be in jail.
I was trying to teach my daughter what the term grifter meant. I referred her to this video
This guy just doesn’t sound genuine, I think he’s making it up. Or he really is that stupid. People love labelling themselves, usually as an excuse for wrongdoing.
The doctors note aside, some employers may turn a blind eye if you have interests in a company as long as it doesn't interfere with your work. He goes and registers a company in direct competition with his employer. Probably stealing clients!
At 1:15 caller describes a "diagnostic letter" that he "produced to them when [he] joined the business". Is this the letter he forged? He subsequently claims that his reason for forging a doctor's letter was because he was hesitant to disclose his disability at the outset of his employment... yet this seems to be the very effect of his providing the "diagnostic letter".
In any case, his employer deserves a medal, if not beatification, for tolerating him for four months, I had to take regular breathers just to make it through the video!
Timewaster the guys a grifter
To be fair about the standing desk, i have suspected ADHD and it helps me concentrate standing up and working
I have ADHD that has had a very profound affect on my life but I wouldn't have the front to claim it's a disability. This guy is just entitled and ego centric.
I do feel a bit sorry for him because he sounds very personable. For many neurodivergent people it's a bruising and gruelling process to learn how to "make it work" in the world we all have to live in and it sounds as if he terminally put his foot in it here.
My advice is to get a copy (audiobook?) of something like "How to Win Friend and Influence People", which is a really accessible guide to interpersonal relationships.
Expects a list of FIFTEEN adjustments including controlling the music for a whole office 😂😂 what an utter bell end
Suddenly I feel privileged to have the kind of managers that I have. This chap makes most colleagues look like angels.
Especially has he faked the doctor's letter because he didn't want to disclose his ADHD, total chancer