(or why I'm as mad as a box of frogs)
Goodbye to all you nice folk. Need cash so my faithful 'Binky' has got to go.
The story so far:
Since 1984 I worked for a Public Safety company. I was responsible for managing operations in London. My team provided and maintained all of the radio equipment for the Metropolitan Police and the London Firebrigade. I hasd 50 guys who were mostly ex civil servants. I saved the company lots of money, raised their profits, increased business and made sure that the customers got the very best service my guys could give them.
During that time 2 senior managers who had tried to take the credit for my work, constantly threateened, bullied, demeaned my acheivements and undermined me. After 2 years of this, during which I'd got my guys performing well, even through 7/7. I complained. HR tampered with the evidence I presented, took the side of the managers and made my life very uncomfortable until in October 2006 I had a complete mental breakdown. Prolonged Duress Stress Disorder leading to severe depression.
I had months of treatment, in and out of a clinic, Electro Convulsive Therapy and lots and lots of medication.
Meanwhile my company have refused to let me return and continue to discriminate against me.
I am now in a position where the only way this will ever be resolved is to sue them. Now this isn't all that easy in the UK. Nobody will fund a case for psychiatric injury on a no win no fee basis, so it's left to me. There is no legal aid for personal injury claims in the UK either.
So here I am today, sitting with my solicitor who tells me I need to have a full forensic pscological report which will cost around £3,000.
I'll never be the same again and will never be able to work at that level again so I need to protect my families financial security which I am no longer able to provide.
So it looks like I'll be selling Binky and staying off the road for a while. A small sacrifice as I'll be suing for total loss of earnings between now and retirement age. A claim worth well over a million pounds. It could be the largest such claim seen in the UK so far.
Anybody want to buy the bike, let me know. It will be on Ebay in the next couple of weeks.
Good luck all
Ride Safe
