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An employee was unfairly dismissed when he was told to "not bother coming back on Monday" during an argument with his manager, an employment tribunal has held. Stephen Simpson rounds up tribunal decisions from the previous week. Manager's angry words to employee to "not bother coming back on Monday" In Townsend v Commercial Storage Ltd, the employment tribunal held that a manager's angry words during an argument to an employee to "not bother coming back on Monday" constituted a dismissal. Mr Townsend, a driver for a small family business, got into an argument with Mr Cooke, who ran the business. At Mr Cooke's insistence, Mr Townsend had come into work while on annual leave to set up a new truck that he was taking out. He resented being disturbed while on annual leave. According to Mr Townsend, Mr Cooke said to him during the argument: "Get out of the yard and don't bother coming back on Monday." Mr Townsend took this as a dismissal, and left the workplace. Mr Cooke made no attempt to contact Mr Townsend in the next few weeks, and later sent him his P45. Mr Townsen