> HR and legal across the UK are probably updating their company procedures right now to include every imaginable reason they might want to fire someone. If yo

> HR and legal across the UK are probably updating their company procedures right now to include every imaginable reason they might want to fire someone. If you want to fire someone you follow procedure. In this case they didn't follow procedure. This is exactly the sort of situation HR already despairs over. Writing new HR documents can't fix this, the same way that bolding the text "Do not press this button" in the instruction manual will not stop customers who don't read the manual and then press the button from doing so. This also just obviously isn't gross misconduct. So now your rewritten procedures might get you sued which (checks notes) is the opposite of what you wanted.