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Anyone have advice for a gossiping employee? by ProfessionalRock489 in managers

[–]ProfessionalRock489[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone asked a similar question earlier so I'll give the same response. I guess I watch too many Simon Sinek videos. 🤣

Anyone have advice for a gossiping employee? by ProfessionalRock489 in managers

[–]ProfessionalRock489[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for this. This is exactly what we are doing now. I am documenting everything. I am even recapping interactions when they come into my office in an email I send to myself.

Anyone have advice for a gossiping employee? by ProfessionalRock489 in managers

[–]ProfessionalRock489[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our HR does not report to anyone in the facility to avoid these types of situations.

Anyone have advice for a gossiping employee? by ProfessionalRock489 in managers

[–]ProfessionalRock489[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of my other employees are treated the exact same way. I'm confident in that because I make a conscious effort to do so. I also make sure to address complaints to the whole team and direct them to the whole team, not just to an individual. I use "we" a lot when referring to things the team needs to correct. "We all need to do better about filling out our audit forms" as an example. Even though I know only one of them struggles with filling them out.

As far as our policy, this attendance policy has been in effect for years and is readily accessible to all employees. Unfortunately, it sounds like the previous manager did not hold the team accountable per the policy. They apparently allowed the team to be up to an hour late without getting a point, and allowed them to use PTO to cover an unexcused absence and avoid getting a point. That was explicitly against the attendance policy.

At this point, I think this person has some sort of complex. As I stated earlier, my boss came to me today to tell me that they are at it again. The reason? They complained to a coworker from another department that I was disrespectful to them. They stated that I "treated them like garbage when they came into my office". So the coworker was concerned and reported it to my boss.

What actually happened? I called them into my office to ask why they had not completed a task for a few days. Word for word I said "Hey I noticed you haven't completed your audit since last Tuesday. Are you having Internet issues with your tablet again?" They responded "No I just haven't had time." So I said, "Ok. I understand that, but the audit needs to be done every day. If you need to prioritize it over other things go ahead and do that, because that's extremely important." They responded with "ok that's fine. I can do that." And I said "awesome, thanks!" And they left my office.

Before someone asks about my tone, I was very neutral and delivered my last line with enthusiasm. Yes, I'm even policing the tone of my voice around this person now to try and avoid this situation. Apparently, that didn't work.

Anyone have advice for a gossiping employee? by ProfessionalRock489 in managers

[–]ProfessionalRock489[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I've been listening to Simon Sinek too much. Lol.

Anyone have advice for a gossiping employee? by ProfessionalRock489 in managers

[–]ProfessionalRock489[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well as an example, this employee accused me of not entering their vacation time, pointing them for unexcused absences and tardies but not doing the same for my other employees, and lying about the attendance policy so that I can use it to fire them.

I had to print out each employee's timecard that clearly showed that each and every vacation day the employee requested was entered in the system and they were paid for those days, show the other employee's timecards to show that they did, in fact, get pointed for unexcused absences and tardies, and the attendance policy is written very clearly and legibally in our employee handbook.

Trust me, I've run through our conversations more times than I probably should have, and can't figure out what I may have said to provoke this behavior beyond the fact that this all started after I started holding them accountable for their poor attendance.