So, less than 1 week after my last post in regards to a co-worker and the inappropriate facebook posts another incident occurred. This past Friday I received a call from a co-worker who I am helping to train. He was very upset and asked if i had seen the co-worker I keep talking abouts facebook status. I had not seen the post at this point. He explained that the two of them were supposed to complete a project for our manager together. They had each completed this separately and the manager followed up with an email saying he would like them to get together and produce 1 report by Friday of last week.
When he approached this other employee about getting together to finish the project, her response was i will be tied up in meetings until 4 pM and then I am going down the shore. Then came the FB post at 12:00 PM on Friday afternoon stating she is sitting poolside and will be down the shore in a few hours, hit her up. A few things come out of this. First, its noon on a workday and she is sharing with the world she is sitting at the pool. Now, every salesperson i know takes a few hours on a friday now and again, but the mistake was posting it for the world to see. Secondly she told my other co-worker she would be in meetings all day.
My response to him was to call her out. It is one thing to do what she did, but another thing when you impact someone else. I simply said you can tell our boss that you could not finish the project because of the other co-worker not being available all day due to meetings, except her facebook status eluded to something else.
So, my question to you all where do you draw the line and what would you do? If you were supposed to work with her and this happened to you how would you respond? If you were me, what would you do? Finally, as the manager if this information came to your attention how would you handle it?
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I gotta say at first I was surprised to hear the story then thought about your other story you told in class. Some folks continue down their same path if no one disciplines them or tells them that what they are doing is wrong. My advice, have your coworker whom you are training directly confront the girl about her lie. The last thing he wants is to be taken advantage of and lied to. If it were myself, I would definetly confront this girl and let her know that if something like this happens again that I would be taking the screenshots to her manager.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. If anything this co-worker is solidifying her lack of commitment to your company. Making a mistake once can be one thing, but developing a (published) history of lying and bashing your company is another. She seems to have total disregard for the company, and for her co-workers. This is a tough one. If it were me I would definetely confront her, but then I don't know if I would be satisfied with that. What is she going to do, stop posting this type of info? That doesn't mean her behavior will actually improve, it just means you won't know about. Another way to think of it is that if you go to the boss you may feel like a "tattle tale" as I tell me kids, but you are also protecting the company you work for from someone who is stealing company time.
ReplyDeleteThis woman is saving both her boss and the HR department a lot of work. She's documenting her own case for dismissal.
ReplyDeleteI feel for your coworker. I was in a situation a few years ago where I had to go to my boss to "rat out" a coworker who wasn't carrying her weight. It's a really tough situation, and very uncomfortable despite the fact that your complaint may be justified. I think what helped was that I stuck to the facts, I had proof, and I was able to demonstrate how her behavior negatively affected the work that our boss had assigned us. I didn't come across as a tattle tale, and my boss had something concrete when it came time to discipline her.