Well there you go,gave my 4 weeks notice to leave today,3 years,no time off-no disciplinaries-done everything asked of me-no accidents and what do they tell me when i get back off a 13.45hr day…that cpc you was on tomorrow is now cancelled as your leaving us, what a bunch of !£"$%^ers.
Oh well looks like ill have to fork out for it meself,
The question you need to ask is why a company would shed out the money to put an employee through a cpc day for them to leave 4 weeks down the line to somewhere else. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had a spotless record, to them you’re just a number and if your wanting your number wiped off the board don’t be surprised if they happen to cancel any plans they may have had for you. I know it stinks but unfortunately that’s the case.
Just think of it as another experience and move on, lifes too short to get angry over a company shafting you. Been there done that 
Just pay for it yourself, and look to bigger and better things 
Cheers
Jonny 
No offence, But i’d do the same as they did.
Did you really expect them to pay for it?
No one is indispensable, no matter if it’s a one man band or a multi-national. If you go, someone else will take your place and you’ll be forgotten in an heartbeat. Loyalty means Jack.
New job not paying for it?
i don’t get your beef, common sense on their part i’d say and depending on the terms, not so on your part. if there wasn’t anything about paying it back if you leave before x, why not wait until after the dcpc to give notice.
I can’t believe that after handing in your notice you still expect them to pay for your dcpc 
scantheman:
I can’t believe that after handing in your notice you still expect them to pay for your dcpc
I don’t think he did, they did!
That is DHL for you!
quork:
Well there you go,gave my 4 weeks notice to leave today,3 years,no time off-no disciplinaries-done everything asked of me-no accidents and what do they tell me when i get back off a 13.45hr day…that cpc you was on tomorrow is now cancelled as your leaving us, what a bunch of !£"$%^ers.
Oh well looks like ill have to fork out for it meself,
With an attitude like this no wonder drivers have a bad name .
Surprise surprise, DHL looks a zb company from the outside…
quork:
Well there you go,gave my 4 weeks notice to leave today,3 years,no time off-no disciplinaries-done everything asked of me-no accidents and what do they tell me when i get back off a 13.45hr day…that cpc you was on tomorrow is now cancelled as your leaving us, what a bunch of !£"$%^ers.
Oh well looks like ill have to fork out for it meself,
Not seeing a problem here, sorry.
I recently left DHL after 6 years and a few weeks before I handed my notice in I was due to go on a CPC day. I told them it would be probably be a waste of their money as I was looking at leaving shortly so they gave my spot that day to another driver, who was scheduled to do the same course later, and if I decided not to leave I could have his spot on the CPC day in June instead.
The boss also bought me, and other drivers, a load of new uniform a couple of months before I was intending to leave and before I knew for sure when or if I would be leaving, 5 blue polo shirts, 2 pairs of blue trousers, 1 fleece, 1 hi-viz. When I left I gave him all but the 1 pair of trousers and 2 shirts I had used back, still in their packets and unused. I didn’t feel it was fair for him to waste part of his budget on uniform when I was leaving and I just kept washing the 3 bits of kit I used every two days.
He was good to me over the 6 years I worked there and I wouldn’t have felt right wasting that uniform and the money for the DCPC course when I would only be there for another couple of months.
Assuming that the course is not on DHL premises I would still turn up for it anyway. The chances are at such short notice DHL won’t have cancelled your place on it with the company running the courses. If your place really has been cancelled and the tutor queries payment you can always pay for it yourself there and then.
I think I can see DHL’s point (financially) but I think it is a bit off - them cancelling your course at a day’s notice when you have been decent enough to give a month’s notice.
If the firm didn’t have anything in place for “re-compensating them should you leave within a certain period”, then you’d have to be daft to go BEFORE you’ve finished your 35 hours…
…Then there’s firms like Morrisons who want you to actually have the full 35 hour credit before you apply to work there.
They’d rather have a “6 points only” bod with a full card than Mr Clean Licence who’s yet to start his - despite the fact that they have not put their own drivers through DCPC fully yet.
Well, perhaps time will tell… A single smack-up will easily exceed the cost of putting a single newbie driver through 35 hours in-house.
I guess these “accountant” mistakes will continue to be made by those that make the decisions - because they know they won’t be for the high jump if and should anything go wrong with what sounds like a daft pen-pushing bean-counter policy. 
stevieboy308:
i don’t get your beef, common sense on their part i’d say and depending on the terms, not so on your part. if there wasn’t anything about paying it back if you leave before x, why not wait until after the dcpc to give notice.
My bad,i stupidley thought i would still be on it,thinking about it i should of waited and gave 2 weeks notice after completing dcpc 
shugg:
quork:
Well there you go,gave my 4 weeks notice to leave today,3 years,no time off-no disciplinaries-done everything asked of me-no accidents and what do they tell me when i get back off a 13.45hr day…that cpc you was on tomorrow is now cancelled as your leaving us, what a bunch of !£"$%^ers.
Oh well looks like ill have to fork out for it meself,With an attitude like this no wonder drivers have a bad name .
Not biting
Pimpdaddy:
Surprise surprise, DHL looks a zb company from the outside…
I dont think it was dhl,im pretty sure there is no policy that states this however i am sure one particular individual had some input 
quork:
Well there you go,gave my 4 weeks notice to leave today,3 years,no time off-no disciplinaries-done everything asked of me-no accidents and what do they tell me when i get back off a 13.45hr day…that cpc you was on tomorrow is now cancelled as your leaving us, what a bunch of !£"$%^ers.
Oh well looks like ill have to fork out for it meself,
Just what I would have done too
Coffeeholic:
I recently left DHL after 6 years and a few weeks before I handed my notice in I was due to go on a CPC day. I told them it would be probably be a waste of their money as I was looking at leaving shortly so they gave my spot that day to another driver, who was scheduled to do the same course later, and if I decided not to leave I could have his spot on the CPC day in June instead.The boss also bought me, and other drivers, a load of new uniform a couple of months before I was intending to leave and before I knew for sure when or if I would be leaving, 5 blue polo shirts, 2 pairs of blue trousers, 1 fleece, 1 hi-viz. When I left I gave him all but the 1 pair of trousers and 2 shirts I had used back, still in their packets and unused. I didn’t feel it was fair for him to waste part of his budget on uniform when I was leaving and I just kept washing the 3 bits of kit I used every two days.
He was good to me over the 6 years I worked there and I wouldn’t have felt right wasting that uniform and the money for the DCPC course when I would only be there for another couple of months.
Well done you,we all have differerent perspectives and views
Turbovision:
Assuming that the course is not on DHL premises I would still turn up for it anyway. The chances are at such short notice DHL won’t have cancelled your place on it with the company running the courses. If your place really has been cancelled and the tutor queries payment you can always pay for it yourself there and then.I think I can see DHL’s point (financially) but I think it is a bit off - them cancelling your course at a day’s notice when you have been decent enough to give a month’s notice.
Finally,and thats all i was getting at 