Questions tagged [discipline]
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Should I write up my employee again or fire her [closed]
I’m a store manager at a retail outlet mall and recently , my assistant store manager came to me that she and who I will call employee A were talking about gay rights. Within that conversation, ...
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Dealing with people who take equipment home
In the company I am working at they have really high quality equipment in the office. There's really good wireless mice and keyboards in the office. They are intended to be used only in the office. ...
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Dealing with manager that has high turnover but great reviews from departing engineers
I've been tasked with finding a way to work with a very unique manager in my division. He's an especially gifted individual (i.e. can learn a new programming language or tech stack over the weekend, ...
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Should you refuse to participate in weekly meetings, because of a toxic member?
Should you refuse to participate in weekly meetings, because of a toxic member? I have a person who keep harassing me and insulting me. The individual has been warned multiple times for his disruptive ...
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Dealing with toxic member on disciplinary action
I am the functional manager of a team with ten people. One of them, who is very highly skilled, has turned very hostile in the last few months towards colleagues and myself. We had a 1:1 three months ...
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I made a mistake last week and am trying to not get fired. I need help
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I made a mistake last week and sent the wrong data (including other manufacturers' data) to them due to a copy & paste error in Excel. Yes, the sensitive data shouldn't be sent using a ...
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Have I made a mistake by sharing my personal life with my boss as he has started criticising me based on that?
I work in sales. My boss is a micromanager and trying to change my personal life by adding discipline to it. I am okay with that.
What I am not okay with, is today morning on a meeting call, he has ...
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Am I overreacting to a new rule where I have to check-in my status every morning?
Three months ago I started a role at a new company as a software engineer. Within two months, I helped onboard the team to a lot of contemporary best practices. They didn't do proper source control, ...
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Should I report my manager?
At my place of work, we have many employees who
Refuse to do their assigned work
Do others' work and not their own
Abandon their workspace whenever
Yell at customers
Just leave whenever things start ...
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Insubordinate chief engineer training colleagues to be "too mobile" out of spite
We have a problem with one of our chief engineers, but we cannot fire him (yet) due to professional qualifications he holds, and it takes time to replace him.
This engineer was a hard worker years ago,...
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Might lose job and have no income due to insulting my coworker
I was one of the first people to join an online meeting with coworkers today. Usually, most attendees are up to 10 minutes later before the actual meeting gets started. One of my senior colleagues, ...
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Departing senior engineer refuses to introduce replacement to open source community/peers
We had a senior, very capable (i.e. 5x) engineer, "Gust", who has served his notice (4 weeks), and will be leaving. Our company likes to "test" people in their new roles when being ...
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How to negotiate with a stubborn coworker?
I work in small team of 8 developers and we do not have direct management because of our small numbers. We are more or less self managed.
We make heavy use of version management, IDEs and all sorts of ...
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Official warning by a manager for how I spend my vacations: escalate or ignore?
I have about 20 years of job experience and I’ve been working for my current company for 3 and half years. Throughout my career I've used this pattern for my vacations:
the last working day before a ...
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Supervisor told me I would be written up if I need to do a refund again. Would like to escalate to management but not sure how
I work at a retail store. I trust the managers a lot. Something happened the other day which I've decided I am going to raise with them. A supervisor told me that if I need to do another refund ...
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Salvaging senior engineer who's planning projects by how good they look on his resume/CV
One of our senior (and more competent) engineers, "Peter", who was due for a promotion and pay raise a few months back, raised an issue and meeting with me when his promotion was deferred ...
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Would it be fair to reprimand employees ignoring government imposed lock down procedures?
A friend of mine asked me to ask this on his behalf.
A company he manages employs ~900 employees. The company does not perform essential services and has thus been forced to shut down during a 21 ...
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Work schedule - pregnant wife
I began work for a company on April 2019 from shift 7AM to 4PM. I am warehouse worker. After 3 months my manager told me to start 6AM to 3PM.
I had no issues with this but has problems have arose ...
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Promotion cancelled due to citing white privilege; should I just quit?
TL;DR: I said at work that someone got promoted to my dream position due to 'white privilege', my manager threatens me with dismissal unless I write secret apology
I've been trying for 18 months to ...
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Important ex-volunteer demanding the humiliation of former colleague
I am the "head volunteer" for a "patch" of Churches in a group of 3 neighboring cities. My job is to encourage members of our churches and parents/teens of families attending our schools to take part ...
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What personnel files should I request after unfair dismissal?
I was unfairly dismissed at the start of the year after another employee made a false allegation against me.
This could have easily been disproved but was dealt with very unfairly and I was dismissed....
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Can I take any recourse after being told to take down ' Xinjiang "Reeducation" Camps ' as my location?
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Today at work, I got a talking to from my superior about something on my Skype for Business account being too political. Below is what caused the issue:
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My location was set to ...
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How to discipline overeager engineer
I have a software engineer on my staff that has been very useful. He basically trains himself on new technologies on a weekly basis, and can memorize and apply the latest O'Reilly textbook over a ...
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Disciplining hard-working but insubordinate engineer or his superior?
I work in a mid-sized engineering firm (roughly 2000 employees total) in the US. One of our more senior engineers, let's call him John, has been with the company for about 4 years, and is aiming to be ...
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Dialog between manager and employee is mostly about discipline in technical sense when it should actually be about the employees skills
I am a technical lead for a team of consultants. We have a colleague who joined 1.5 years ago and has severe performance and some disciplinary problems. This employee has also a conflict with me - he ...
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I have a meeting with HR and my manager sometime next week, will I get fired [closed]
Last week one of my supervisors gave me heads up that another supervisor reported me to HR for taking food and hiding it on my work station to take home. I work in a nursing home and this was food ...
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How does GDPR affect what we can tell staff about another employee we have dismissed [closed]
We recently dismissed an employee with good reason. We told him that, as per the company policy, the fact he was dismissed was strictly confidential and that colleagues would not be told the reason ...
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How do I get my brother/coworker to do his work?
Just as a background, my brother lives with me. I have my own business but I also contract for another company that he works with me for. He works with me/at my direction for my own personal business, ...
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Accidentally missed a shift, how do I apologise?
I missed a shift and it was my fault. I would like to apologise and take measures so it doesn't happen again. I work seasonal at a large chain of retail stores. I take the work extremely seriously (...
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Managing a team member when co-located
I am co-located with my team member who reports to me. Near us, inside a room seating about 8 people, are other members from various unrelated teams.
Often there is banter and jokes, that are no ...
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Disciplining engineer who embarrased senior engineer [closed]
I am a manager involved in getting project out the door quickly, and oversee several dozen engineers for this project. A year ago, my senior engineer designed a replacement technology for a core piece ...
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How to discipline a subordinate without involving HR or our Manager? [closed]
I have an extremely unique situation in which I need to discipline one of my subordinates for violating my privacy. My subordinate went through my desk without my permission while I was running a ...
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Is a written warning going to ruin my chance at a reference?
There was an incident where I was accused of being rude to a customer. This is the first incident I've ever had and I thought it'd been resolved but it's freaking me out.
I know for a fact that I ...
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New manager penalising my team for 'tiredness' - how to shield them?
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I'm an infrastructure support night team leader for a very large IT services company in the UK. Due to the requirement for 24/7 support that most of our clients have, the support teams are ...
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How to give a bad reference for a co-worker?
I'm in an interesting situation at work. I work with "Joe". Joe and I are both programmers, having both been professionally programming for about 20 years. Joe does some of the worst work I've seen ...
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How serious is a letter of reprimand for a US public school teacher?
My wife is a teacher in a public school and received a letter of reprimand. The boss thinks she revealed confidential information, but my wife argues she did not. She belongs to a union. How serious ...
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Is using internet proxies a sackable offence? [closed]
I'm based in the UK and am about six months into my first job as an Apprentice Software Dev, and came straight into it from college. All through high school and college we would easily bypass the ...
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What does "disciplinary action" usually mean?
I had worked at a call center, and hung up on a customer who was swearing at me. He called back and complained to management and they said there may be "disciplinary action". They ended up firing me ...
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What are the definitions of insubordinate and inappropriate? [closed]
I am curious what the definitions of "insubordinate" and "inappropriate" are in the context of workplace behaviors.
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How to negotiate with uncooperative senior engineers after they've been given new laptops they don't want to use
I'm a manager at a mid-sized engineering firm. We recently implemented a mandate that everyone has to now use a Windows laptop with various security tools installed on it for auditing, backup, and ...
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Cleaning Lady Snooping Around
Our company contracts cleaning services to a third party cleaning service. Last night I walked into my CEO's offices and caught our cleaning person sitting behind his desk on his chair texting and ...
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Purse stolen during fair - who is to blame? [closed]
We are a small company with the main focus on eCommerce. Sometimes we are also present at fairs to sell our products. Our stand is always pretty simple: It's just a row of tables (11m long, 0.6m deep -...
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Unclear responsibilities in consulting company in respect to HR relevant issues
The situation is a follows: I work as a senior consultant for customer projects (in Germany).
Currently is one junior colleague (mainly) working with me on some projects for which I am responsible, ...
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To what extent can a teacher be disciplined for what they put on social media? [closed]
So this recently happened to a friend of mine who is a teacher.
He uses twitter a lot. He has a separate account for work which uses a fake name, on this account he vents about work and generally ...
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I'm witnessing racial discrimination/favoritism- how do I report it?
I'm an off-shift chemist in a manufacturing plant. I work closely with a group of process workers, 90% of which are minorities.
It seems like the African American and Hispanic workers are always ...
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Address the team or address the employee
There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something ...
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How can I best notify management of a toxic coworker?
My workplace has been dealing with an extremely rude coworker and I'm looking for the best way to describe or document that behavior so I can escalate the problem to management or HR. This colleague ...
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Can people complain about my grammar when I was not employed to use perfect English?
My company head hunted me for my abilities of a warehouse manager and people management skills.
My English however has never been my strongest ability and they are now complaining about my grammar in ...
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Dealing With an Unfair Written Disciplinary Notice
Long story short:
Was assigned support ticket to work on (as expected as part of my job)
A short while after starting work on the ticket, an email went out to my team saying to "Not start working on ...
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How to manage an employee who talks too much?
I manage a team of engineers. For the most part everyone is self-motivated and doesn't need much management. There is one engineer in particular, though, that is very difficult to work with. He has ...