"Logic bombs" and sabotage aren't the makings of a James Bond film. They're problems any employer can face in this electronic age. Sometimes, employee malice is to...
Question: A
younger woman (early 20s) is working our switchboard. She has stolen
from people before but no one has been able to catch her in the act.
(She’s...
Question: I work in an office where I am in the center of everything, so I can hear and
see everything that goes on. One of my co-workers pretends to work...
Question: I work in a nice
office with a lot of nice people around. Sometimes, however, the lady
next to me in her cube will chew gum ... then, she will pop it. Not...
Question: We have an office of about 70 employees, about 55 of whom have
face-to-face contact with the public. The owner would like all patients welcomed
with...
Question: One of my co-workers (Co-Worker A) is a good employee and a hard worker.
Another co-worker (Co-Worker B), who supports the department head, is very...
Question: Two of my managers come to my desk frequently and
read my computer screen and anything else within view of my desk. I do not
report to either one. They...
Question: We have three offices in our building and each office has a secretary. One of
our secretaries is a wonderful person but is too loud. When I am...
Perk up your lawsuit radar if you (or one of your organization's managers) plan to discipline an employee who has emotional problems and difficulty relating to other...
And now, a cautionary tale in the form of Spencer Stuart headhunter Dennis Carey, who wooed and promoted his protégé, Marie-Caroline von Weichs, then fired...
Americans can speak their minds as they wish in many places, but your workplace isn't one of them. First Amendment free-speech rights do not extend to the private...
Jess McCavitt claims his company withheld a promotion and then fired him for being romantically involved with another officer in the company. He said their relationship...
Joseph Succar's affair with Clemencia Lorenz soured after about a year. At the school where they worked, she verbally and physically harassed Succar and tried to...
Faced with a bad situation, Wax Works record stores managed to make it even worse, and paid a big price. One of Wax Works' store managers, Kerry Ogden, had compiled ...
Warning: The way you respond to your employees’ excuses may actually encourage them to feed you more excuses. If you readily accept their reasons for being late,...