Timeline for Hostile work environment after whistle-blowing on coworker and our boss. What do I do?
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| Jan 26, 2020 at 20:37 | comment | added | O. Jones | Yikes! In all the hospitals where I've visited people, patient safety is a really big deal. And, nursing staff is spread very thin. Sleeping on the job == dangerously incompetent supervision. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 8:54 | history | rollback | Aida Paul |
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| Jan 23, 2020 at 0:31 | history | edited | Gregory Currie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2019 at 18:23 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | @Mołot it seems I've overread the info that the OP is a nurse... :O it changes things a bit | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 9:50 | comment | added | Walfrat | "Even if Corporate can't help you, you need to look elsewhere". I think you wanted to say can instead of can't or I didn't understood what you meant. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 9:18 | comment | added | Mołot | @DanubianSailor nurse sleeping at work and manager covering this is an action against society. Specifically, against health & safety, and even life, of everyone who happens to be there at night, both patients and coworkers (death from overwork at night shift happens). | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 16:41 | comment | added | Berthim | Just to add to this great answer : I think it is reasonable to think that OP's phone could have been stolen to break in it and possibly find materials to use against her professionally and/or personally. I'd strongly suggest not only to log out but to dig all the possibilities to remotely wipe everything out of this device and change every critical passwords. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 10:40 | comment | added | Gregory Currie | @Frank A judge will consider the reasons why. Filming someone nude in the shower is a lot different to filming someone whose conduct is significantly bad to get them fired. Especially given the circumstances. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 10:22 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @DanubianSailor You're right though about the video, that's a legal grey area and can be illegal depending on jurisdiction etc. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 10:21 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @DanubianSailor If you report private behaviour that's snooping and rightfully frowned upon. Your co-workers sex live or music preferences or political views are none of your employers business (unless there is very very direct link that means they affect your employer), so pulling them out in the open or telling your employer is none of your business. Not doing the work or doing it badly, that definitely is your employers business and - if other measures don't help - it is indeed your duty to yourself, the public and your employer to notify the administration of such misbehaviour. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 9:57 | comment | added | Eric Nolan | @DanubianSailor You are completely wrong in your assertion. Assuming the facts in the question are accurate (which we must) the person who was fired was endangering peoples lives. They are lucky to simply be fired. If the supervisor was aware of this they should be fired too. The asker's colleagues should be supporting them, even for the purely selfish reason that if a serious incident ever did occur because the lazy worker was not there there is a good chance that the blame will end up on them, the person covering two jobs. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 7:17 | comment | added | Gregory Currie | @DanubianSailor They didn't denunciate their coworkers, they reported them to corporate. The term whistle-blowing is very broad, and does encompass internal whistle-blowing within an organisation. "Spying" on the other hand is drastically different. Recording someone without their permission is GENERALLY lawful, unless they have an expectation of privacy. Sleeping on the rec room couch doesn't suggest an expectation of privacy. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 7:03 | comment | added | forest | @DanubianSailor If a coworker is making use of a corrupt system, then it's right to bring the corruption to light. You don't have to be holding the Afghan war files in your hands to blow the whistle, after all. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 7:01 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | @forest but denunciating your coworkers is NOT whistleblowing. Whistleblowing is working for society against companies/government, spying is the opposite... | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 5:51 | comment | added | mcalex | @DanubianSailor underperforming coworker is your company's problem, not your problem. Yes it is, if the company is taking your benefits to give to the underperformer and expecting you to pick up the slack. Yes it is, if the quality of the job that you share responsibility for is being compromised. As a nurse, yes it definitely is, if patient care standards aren't being met due to the underperformer. Also, I'm curious as to how you think the company is supposed to become aware of their problem if dodgy actors have the ability to obscure the effects of underperformance from corporate. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 0:36 | history | edited | Gregory Currie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 23:51 | comment | added | forest | @DanubianSailor Spies and whistleblowers are no the same thing. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 23:43 | history | edited | Gregory Currie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 23:04 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | @dbeer I don't get how the OP has done right to report the person, I have doubts even about if she hasn't commited crime doing that. Filming people without their consent is illegal in many countries, even in their workplace, even with the consent of the company. And underperforming coworker is your company's problem, not your problem. Reporting them makes it your problem and it's effectively burning bridges to every people you're in relation with. Spies have no friends. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 19:44 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @Ferrybig: a giant edit to the question removed all the context and left a very generic question that doesn't even mention what kind of job it is. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | 001 | @Ferrybig See the original text of the question: workplace.stackexchange.com/revisions/132481/1 | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 19:03 | comment | added | Ferrybig | What do you mean with "phone"? its not talked about in the question | |
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 15:21 | comment | added | GalacticCowboy | It might also be worth raising the missing-phone issue with corporate, to see if there are further avenues of investigation they can take. | |
| S Mar 25, 2019 at 15:13 | history | suggested | henning no longer feeds AI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
the verb flexions were incongruent.
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 15:04 | comment | added | dbeer | Great point on reaching out to Corporate for help finding a new job; OP absolutely is right to have reported this person (even if reporting it locally could've been done first) and it's likely that Corporate appreciates it. Also good to recognize that a company can still be a good place to work even when one situation at that company has soured. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 14:43 | history | answered | Gregory Currie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |