Timeline for Team member falling asleep: who to talk to first as an external consultant?
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| Aug 16, 2022 at 15:04 | comment | added | rhoonah | I think you miss a third option... mind your own business. Unless you are her supervisor then you have no authority to talk to her and unless it is directly affecting your performance then you don't need to be a tattle tale. I had a colleague like this once and I would find them sleeping at their desk, face down in a puddle of drool. I just moved on. When their lack of performance became and issue for me and my manager started asking me why this or that wasn't getting done, I told him that the employee wasn't getting their tasks done. The sleeping wasn't by business. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 12:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/730018208707686400 | ||
| May 4, 2016 at 18:58 | comment | added | Resigned | @RichardU And sleep apnea. I was suffering, falling asleep at work (and taking naps in my car during my lunch hour) until I went to my doctor. Treatment resolved the issue completely. | |
| May 4, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Joe Strazzere: Was the failure to accomplish a difficult task the usual pattern or an exception? Was it actually due to sleepiness, or just to the task being difficult? (I know I sometimes fail at difficult things even when wide awake: the possibility of failure seems inherent in 'difficult', doesn't it?) The real question here is whether the employee is productive overall. If so, you don't 'discipline' or warn the person, you see if there's something you can do to help. | |
| May 4, 2016 at 12:41 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @JoeStrazzere Diabetes, narcolepsy, cancer, chronic fatigue, Epstein barr syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, are ALL conditions where either the conditions themselves or the treatments could cause those symptoms. Discipline her without eliminating a medical condition as a possible cause is begging for a lawsuit. I've seen ADA actions filed over the color of a spreadsheet. I am not making that up. | |
| May 4, 2016 at 12:17 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @JoeStrazzere and if it's a medical issue? Lawsuit. | |
| May 4, 2016 at 5:39 | vote | accept | FDM | ||
| May 3, 2016 at 22:42 | comment | added | jamesqf | You may just be boring the crap out of her :-) I've been known to nod off in meetings and such myself. The question that needs to be asked, I think, is whether she is productive overall (and you don't say otherwise). If so, and provided that it's not an attention-critical task, then IMHO it's your job to accomodate her working patterns. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 22:30 | answer | added | Joe Strazzere | timeline score: 19 | |
| May 3, 2016 at 20:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 3, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @Gnat, only by stretching the word "duplicate" to mean, something somewhat similar, but upon examination, nothing of the sort. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | gnat | Possible duplicate of How do I deal with a co-worker who is constantly late, leaving early, or taking long lunches, forcing myself and my colleagues to cover for her? | |
| May 3, 2016 at 20:31 | comment | added | Cat'r'pillar | I live in terror of this being me :( Any chance you can talk to her first...? Maybe she doesn't realize how big of an impact it makes... | |
| May 3, 2016 at 19:19 | answer | added | Old_Lamplighter | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 3, 2016 at 19:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 3, 2016 at 19:07 | history | asked | FDM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |