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Daughter 'let go' from apprenticeship after 1 day!

Livinupnorth

Hi everyone

Just wanted to vent a bit as my 16yr old daughter is distraught. (she has high functioning autism)

Since leaving school after her GCSEs last year she has been hunting for an apprenticeship along the lines of animal care.

When at school, she found herself a weeks work experience placement in this field and loved it and knew office work or such like was not for her.

She wrote to several places and at Christmas received a phone call from an animal centre asking her to get in touch, which she did.

She heard nothing from them again until last month when they emailed her asking to meet her if she hadn't found an apprenticeship, she was thrilled!

My daughter met the owners and a week later they were happy to offer her a years apprenticeship, with a months trial and arranged for a college to assess her along the way so she could get a qualification.

My daughter arranged everything with the college and started her apprenticeship on Monday.

She was very nervous but enjoyed the day, asked questions and did a lot of cleaning as it was her first day. She came home tired but happy glad that the next day was her assigned day off.

The next day (her day off) my daughter received an email from them saying that they didn't think the role was right for her, that she was a lovely girl but they would still pay her for her days work. 

All that after one day, the equivilant of 7hrs work. Not once had they said to her she had done something wrong during her days work.

What happened to the months trial? She hadn't even got as far as signing any contract with them.

How can they deem a shy, nervous teenager unsuitable after a mere 7hrs? They can't possibly know her or what she is capable of!!

My daughter is distraught, says she feels humiliated and useless and that if her best wasn't good enough what's the point in trying? 

How could they be so cruel? Get to know her and if after a week they feel the same then fair enough but after one day? Really?

I know there's nothing I can do and she wouldn't want to go back there now anyway but I am so angry they strung her along for months, meaning she didn't apply for other apprenticships which are now closed.

Now she's back to square one looking again, having the embarrassment of telling her friends, family etc she was 'let go' after one day.

Just wanting to hear other peoples thoughts.

Thank  you.

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  • I am really upset to hear that, I understand how your daughter is feeling that way. To me sounds like the company has done this becuase of something totally unrelated to your daughter and is just using this as an excuse.

    The way they have done it is very cowardly too, not to mention anything on the day, and to just send an email. They can in no way judge whether that role is right for her in such a short space of time.

    I know nothing can be done about this particular apprenticeship. I wonder if it is worth writing to them to at least let them know how you and your daughter feels about this and what effect it has had. If anything to save someone else to suffer a similar experience with them.

    In the past I was in the middle of the very difficult situation with an apprenticship scheme in a company I was working with. They offered it to a friend of mine, who I put in a good word for. He is a genuinely good bloke, and did everything they asked of him. A few months down the line, the company decided they didn't want to continue with the scheme. Put me in a really difficullt position, and was horrified to hear afterwards that my friend had turned down an offer of a job to take on this apprenticship, because he really wanted to work in the IT industry. Before he took on the apprenticship I did give him an honest view of the company, warts and all.

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  • I am really upset to hear that, I understand how your daughter is feeling that way. To me sounds like the company has done this becuase of something totally unrelated to your daughter and is just using this as an excuse.

    The way they have done it is very cowardly too, not to mention anything on the day, and to just send an email. They can in no way judge whether that role is right for her in such a short space of time.

    I know nothing can be done about this particular apprenticeship. I wonder if it is worth writing to them to at least let them know how you and your daughter feels about this and what effect it has had. If anything to save someone else to suffer a similar experience with them.

    In the past I was in the middle of the very difficult situation with an apprenticship scheme in a company I was working with. They offered it to a friend of mine, who I put in a good word for. He is a genuinely good bloke, and did everything they asked of him. A few months down the line, the company decided they didn't want to continue with the scheme. Put me in a really difficullt position, and was horrified to hear afterwards that my friend had turned down an offer of a job to take on this apprenticship, because he really wanted to work in the IT industry. Before he took on the apprenticship I did give him an honest view of the company, warts and all.

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