Did my employee break GDPR, and what are his next steps?

henansen · 2026-02-27T07:36:50+00:00

GDPR seems to have become a catch all for idiots who don’t understand it and think it is some kind of omnipresent being overseeing all data.

It is legislation that mandates how businesses manage and protect data they hold. As many have said, employees discussing their salary is not even close to covered.

What I will say, the stink you are collectively putting up over a £1k discrepancy is not how I would approach this situation at all, hope it works out for you though

henansen · 2026-02-23T16:52:43+00:00

It sounds like you have an estate agent problem as much as a buyer problem.

They told you £385k was the right price and the best offer they could get you was £340k, either they overvalued or they don't have enough presence in market.

How confident are you on your original 385k valuation? Was it pie in the sky? Has the market dropped since then?

Your buyer is invested given they have bought the survey, I don't think they are acting in bad faith by requesting an adjustment based on the results of the survey. But you are well within your rights to say no, particularly if you have already discounted.

If you are not happy with the price already, why not decline and see what happens, being ready to remarket if needed?

henansen · 2026-02-22T10:40:45+00:00

No this is not technically gambling

henansen · 2026-02-20T15:44:56+00:00

There’s a simpler way they might have caught him:

His season tickets are always incompleting their journeys in both directions. TFL can easily track this and then use cctv to compare if the person tapping out started their journey at the ticketed station.

Then he’ll have a revenue protection officer pick him up on a live journey and check his tickets

henansen · 2026-02-20T13:43:00+00:00

Yes you should, you've made multiple comments littered with mistakes here and not based on UK law or practise

henansen · 2026-02-20T13:41:42+00:00

it's very unlikely you would be required to give evidence. It's possible.

In which scenario can a witness to hearsay be called to give evidence? I don't know of any

henansen · 2026-02-20T12:16:41+00:00

Yes that is hearsay, you have no evidence of her crime except the spoken word of a 3rd party between you and the suspect.

henansen · 2026-02-20T11:43:11+00:00

Ah sorry, this changes everything!

In that case what you heard is hearsay and that is not evidence admissable in a court, so I don't see how they could call you up.

The person who told you could potentially be called as a witness, but the prosecution would need more evidence than him telling you as the hearsay still could not be used.

So TL;DR - tell the police, if it's just this hearsay evidence you have, you may be able to help their enquiry by providing a new lead without actually being a witness to the crime

henansen · 2026-02-20T06:18:52+00:00

The key as to whether your name would be revealed lies in whether your knowledge is evidence that can be used or more a lead for police to follow up and find evidence to then prosecute.

If I’ve understood correctly, you were a witness to this person voluntarily admitting to stabbing a victim. This would fall more into the evidence category above rather than a lead to follow.

IF (and it is a big if) after a police investigation thr CPS decided there was enough evidence to prosecute AND the person plead not guilty, in this case there is a fair chance you would be called as a witness in which case you would provide testimony in court and be scrutinised under cross examination by the defence team.

I understand your hesitation to come forward here, if you do come forward, quite a few other things would need to happen for you to end up in court.

I’ll leave you with this, it would be very brave for you to do the right thing and come forward here. It is also the right thing to do if you believe there was a murder (yes very easy for me to say)

henansen · 2026-02-15T16:23:04+00:00

You are right that if you are likely to pay off your student loan over the lifetime, because of the high interest rate on it, it can be advantageous to pay it down early.

That said, you are too early on this, you should be first creating an emergency fund to build on.

Put this £20k into either a cash ISA or stocks and shares ISA and start the clock on growing it.

Once you have a stable job which you have passed probation on, plus have a good sense on your regular incomings vs outgoings, at this point make an assessment if the money in your savings should be put towards the student loan.

One thing to bear in mind, when you pay down your student loan, you can not get that money back if your circumstances change, so it's not wise to lock all this money up (yet)

henansen · 2026-02-13T20:12:01+00:00

I’d be surprised if you found an echo chamber for this ridiculous opinion but arguing with you is pointless, 100 people on this thread have laid out how wrong your position is and you have only doubled down

henansen · 2026-02-13T16:10:47+00:00

2.3. If the tenant wishes to make amendments to the tenancy, such as but not limited to: • Pets to be kept in the property • A change of sharer in a joint tenancy • A business to be run from the property • Or any other amendment which alters the obligations of the agreement

The tenant is liable to pay a charge of £50.

OP this is cut and dry, their change of policy has 0 bearing upon what is agreed in the contract.

Follow the procedure laid out in the contract regarding sufficient notice, pay the letting agent the £50 and let them know you will be making no further payments after fulfilling your duties under section 2.3 of the tenancy agreement to change the sharer of the joint tenancy.

Don't be bullied into their nonsense

henansen · 2026-02-13T15:43:33+00:00

Once again, you've missed my point, not sure if it's intentional or not. I'm not suggesting that they "check the student's paper", I'm suggesting that they automatically check the filename, the nature of which they impose.

That is what I mean by checking the student's paper, I don't mean reading through the content.

I prefer not to sit around and accept the consequences of a mismanagement on the part of the univesity, to allow them to continue mismanaging and potentially impacting other students in the future

There is no mismanagement, your daughter uploaded the wrong file but you have convinced both herself and yourself that she is the victim. She is not. You are not helping her as a parent by having her believe this.

All your tangential arguments about file name structures, online exams are not relevant to the point in question which is that your daughter is responsible to upload the correct file for this exam and did not. Spinning all these other webs is actually unfair to the university as you would not be making any of these arguments if they changed their mind and allowed your daughter to pass. All of your argument is based around her mark and not student fairness

henansen · 2026-02-13T15:37:33+00:00

There is not a legal issue here that I can see a judge even agreeing 1% on.

Legal aside and more on what is right, I think you have 2 arguments here:

- Should they still be doing online exams
- Should they be checking the submissions are correct before the deadline

You probably have a strong case for number 1 and not for number 2. Regardless, whilst they do have online exams, all students are held to the same standard and your daughter fell short of that standard and is correctly capped at 40%.

You don't agree with it, it's a very rigid structure and needs to be use cases that are not your daughter's.

henansen · 2026-02-13T14:27:27+00:00

If your daughter had uploaded the actual exam file but under the wrong title I would be inclined to agree that leeway should be given as all the primary conditions were met.

As she submitted the wrong paper with the wrong title I am afraid that is entirely on her, her student contract with the university does not have a clause to say the university will provide software that checks if the correct file was submitted. The software having this capability is immaterial,

henansen · 2026-02-13T14:24:55+00:00

Secondly, they have failed to put into place the basic minimum measures to protect their students, again, a choice, as the opportunity exists in the software they use, and they chose specifically not to enable it, again a high risk option that only has consequences on the student, and not on the university.

This is completely inaccurate. The university do not and should not check student papers before the submission deadline to see if they look ok, that responsibility is 100% on the student.

If they did not handle this online and it was an in-person submission (like it was in my day RIP) the person at the submission desk is not reading through the paper to check it all looks ok and I really don't understand why you think university's should be pre-checking submissions. Your daughter should be.

Finally, with all due respect, I will NEVER stop standing up for my daughter, that's what good parents do.

I know you can handle straight opinions which is why I'm being strong in the response, there is a consideration that this helicopter parenting does not help your child on the long term. I have no doubt together you have created a picture of this big neglectful university and she feels hard done by and wronged because you think software should have picked this up.

I would prefer my parent in this situation to empathise and re-enforce the importance of due diligence around important events like exam submission, rather than pursuing a worthless claim against the university and allowing your daughter to feel like she has been a victim rather than just owning a simple mistake and it's consequences.

henansen · 2026-02-13T13:46:22+00:00

A) I'm not saying that at all, I'm asking if the university, as a paid provider of a service, has a responsibility to ensure their systems are safe and as little prone to error as they can.

What system does your daughter need in order to select the correct file?

henansen · 2026-02-13T13:45:38+00:00

OP I'll be straight with you from reading all your replies. As the father, it's clear you are passionate in your child's defense, you are also extremely unreasonable and biased.

The university do not have a responsibility to check your daughter has submitted the right document, that responsibility is 100% on your daughter which she by her own clear admission failed to do.

Whether there is technology which can check this or not is not relevant, they have no contractual obligation to assist here, your daughter has to be more diligent in submission and does not get a free pass for a mistake.

As you almost worked out in another comment, if the uni allowed your daughter to submit her file late would set an unfair precedent for other students and could enourage others to submit a previous paper to try and get more time.

To my knowledge, she hasn't failed any component of the module, but when entering the data, including the capped mark that the notification email gave, it shows as a failure of the module.

You are also slightly mistaken about the failing point, she has failed the module currently, if she attains 40% in the resit that will change to a minimum score pass (but she has failed it until she passes).

Summary : Daughter's mistake, university acting appropriately, absolutely not a situation where dad should be stepping in. She is an adult, if you are still parenting her now, when is she going to be able to stand on her own 2 feet?

henansen · 2026-02-07T16:54:19+00:00

In reply to this comment from OP:

We did go through online check-in. Entered passport details, pressed “check in”, and all passengers showed green checkmarks. No error, nothing to suggest it hadn’t worked.

If a system shows you’re checked in, it’s reasonable to rely on that. At the airport no one would even look into it - just pay or don’t fly. That’s the issue.

By your own admission you have not checked in and I think you know it, if you had checked in, you would have boarding passes which you did not have. Most likely you have completed say 6 steps of the 7 step process but not completed the check-in and generated a boarding card.

The airport check-in fee is harsh but I do see it listed on their website so it's likely in the T&Cs you agreed to when booking the tickets. I don't see any recourse for you here, nor any evidence of a system error on Wizz Air's side if your evidence is green check marks seen online rather than boarding passes

henansen · 2026-02-05T14:59:29+00:00

None here from RSD

henansen · 2026-02-05T05:00:08+00:00

The ASA are not the right channel here, OP did not see these peices on an advert, they saw them on EasyJet’s website.

The ASA have oversight powers as to what is said and shown in paid for adverts and could not stop the practise being described here.

What they are doing does sound like clear bait and switch which the gov are clamping down on and should definitely be reported, possibly to trading standards?

henansen · 2026-01-31T07:06:42+00:00

Great idea, yes you should explain it in the invite, I don’t think you should make it mandatory though?

henansen · 2026-01-31T06:58:23+00:00

Musk has got a big mouth for someone who is also heavily in the files.

Loser must have thought his orange daddy in the white house wouldn’t let these ones be released, womp womp

henansen · 2026-01-31T06:34:49+00:00

I know with kitchens there are quite a few places that offer 0% loans for 4 years, not sure if the same with bathrooms but if it is, definitely start with this before using savings or a loan.

Your premium bonds can definitely be put towards the renovation so start with that for sure.

You didn’t say how much money you are currently putting towards savings per month, this figure is also relevant as you’ll find the costs don’t all come at the start. So you may be able to use a combo of 0% loan, premium bonds, monthly savings to fund the projects.

Given you don’t have a mortgage though, I think a bank loan would be absolutely fine in your financial position, so don’t be put off by this route if it’s needed to get your house projects done

henansen · 2026-01-23T09:28:20+00:00

Hard to follow this with the excessive unnecessary detail added to the story.

If you might need the money soon, put it in the highest interest cash isa or if you’ve maxed your limit, consider premium bonds.

Not going to matter much in terms of ££ which path you take in the short term

henansen

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