Timeline for Is it ethical to report suspected mental health issues of coworker to manager? [duplicate]
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Jim G. Michael Grubey gnat dwizum DarkCygnus♦ |
Duplicate of Unproductive subordinate missing deadlines due to health conditions and problems outside work | |
| May 8, 2018 at 20:30 | history | edited | Sascha | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 7, 2018 at 18:46 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 7, 2018 at 13:29 | comment | added | HLGEM | I think what you are trying to say is that you think he has cognitive issues which is very different from mental health issues. | |
| May 7, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | dwizum | Your job (I am presuming) is the execution of your project. You've done that. Reading your list of "symptoms" I'm not sure how you jumped to a mental health diagnosis - maybe his cat died? Who knows. Certainly not us. You did your job, you need to let others (his actual boss, HR, etc.) do theirs. | |
| May 7, 2018 at 10:13 | answer | added | BSMP | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 7, 2018 at 7:27 | comment | added | Sascha | @JimG. The case is different in that I am not so much interested in the disciplinary aspect (I am not his boss) or the impact on the project (water under the bridge), but rather on the intrinsic conflict between doing harm with a certain probability by telling and doing other harm to him personally with a certain probability by not telling | |
| May 7, 2018 at 7:24 | comment | added | Sascha | @LorenPechtel thanks for pointing this out as a possible root cause. | |
| May 7, 2018 at 0:43 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | I would be much more inclined to think a physical problem than a mental one. | |
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| May 6, 2018 at 20:03 | comment | added | Bakuriu | For clarification: you listed some "symptomps". But did they occur from the beginning, or are was the guy fine until some time ago and they started popping up afterwards? In the former case it seems like someone who doesn't deserve the Masters degree (which happens all the time. A degree or even a PhD is not a guarantee of quality, unfortunately). | |
| May 6, 2018 at 19:53 | answer | added | user77891 | timeline score: 20 | |
| May 6, 2018 at 17:40 | comment | added | Sascha | @TomTom: so your answer would actually be to go trough HR? | |
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| May 6, 2018 at 13:40 | answer | added | Ed Heal | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 6, 2018 at 13:26 | history | edited | BSMP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2018 at 12:30 | comment | added | TomTom | @Sascha But then it would have to go through HR and you should have raised it already before. There is a fine line here, and obviously it was not important enough to go official. That does not mean it should be totally ignored. | |
| May 6, 2018 at 11:52 | comment | added | Sascha | @gnasher729: Imagine that there are mental health issues, nobody takes care about them and pressures him more, and they find him at some day locked up in the toilet to avoid the stress with a consecutive stay in a psych hospital for 6 months or him ending up homeless. (So yes, i get what you mean, but keeping my own ass safe is not the only thing i consider here). | |
| May 6, 2018 at 11:47 | comment | added | Sascha | @TomTom: what i dont like about that solution (besides that I normally dont meet his manager) is that there is a fine line to gossiping. I believe that if something is important it needs to leave a visible trail. | |
| May 6, 2018 at 11:45 | comment | added | Sascha | @HorusKol: I did not pass a diagnosis to my co-team lead, but I asked them to talk to the consultant if there are any health or personal issues right now which he needs to take care or wants to talk about | |
| May 6, 2018 at 11:19 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Imagine you report your suspicion of mental health issues, there are no issues at all, and your colleague finds out about you. | |
| May 6, 2018 at 8:44 | comment | added | TomTom | Talk to the other manager over a coffee. Make sure that you stick to the facts - including not having a proper dignosis, not being a doctor. More a "be aware that i think and you should know that in case it comes up". There is a lot of policy etc. - but the informal cofee talk line is often what keeps things running smooth. | |
| May 6, 2018 at 3:41 | comment | added | HorusKol | And yet you have discussed this with your co-founder team lead... | |
| May 5, 2018 at 22:30 | comment | added | Sascha | @HorusKol: I would never pass a diagnosis. The question is if there is a way to stimulate the company to recommend to the person to seek professional help rather than just firing him. | |
| May 5, 2018 at 22:16 | comment | added | HorusKol | Unless you have any training in medicine, mental health, or psychology, you are in no position to be "diagnosing" mental health issues - and certainly not in any position to be passing that "diagnosis" to anyone else. | |
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