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Subject:Re: Coworker who won't take no for an answer From:"Heidi Liebl-Slabinski" <heidi -dot- liebl -dot- slabinski -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:17:12 -0600
Fred is 100% correct! For that reason, going to HR should be your last
option--but as Keith says, Patricia should do it before he does.
If your company has an Employee Relations department, seperate from HR,
or an ethics office, try them before HR.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Connie Giordano wrote (in small part):
>
> > Patricia also needs to protect
> > herself, so her boss and/or HR need to know there's a problem. They
> cannot
> > take corrective action if they don't know there's a problem.
>
> One really important thing to remember before you get HR involved in a
> situation like this is that it is *NOT* HR's job to protect the interests
> of employees. An HR department exists to protect the interests of the
> *company*. If the course of action that best protects the company
> happens to coincide with an employee's best interests, great. But it
> often happens that an HR-devised solution leaves a bad taste in
> everyone's mouth.
>
> -Fred Ridder
>
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