Here's a good one. If you are caught harrassing, pestering, annoying, bothering any employee, you are subject to termination. Because, by God, they're not going to tolerate any intolerance!
But what if your conversational style is just aggressive? What if someone is ducking your e-mails? What if someone drank your milk in the corporate fridge? You can't pester them about it? That seems awful stringent to Econo-Girl, who herself is not known for quiet stoicism. But what kind of workplace does that engender? You would be afraid for your job if you were too persistent, for fear that you were pestering. You wouldn't want to accuse your co-worker of going through your purse, for fear you were bothering her.
What's an Econo-Girl to do? Keep an updated resume.
3 comments:
Corportate Fridge Sabotage is an art. Someone is drinking your milk? Spike it with something! LSD is always fun.
Or just leave the milk out in the sun for a day. That works too.
Someone stole your food out of the fridge? Ex-Lax brownies are a classic way to stop this. The guilty party is whoever makes multiple runs to the toilet.
By the way, the ex-lax brownie trick can work even better with some planning. Make two batches, one regular batch and one ex-lax batch. Use frosting to mark which is which (vertical stripes for one, diagonal stripes for another). Be seen eating some brownies that will NOT make you crap. Then leave the rest as bait.
I am like electricity - always seeking the path with least resistance to ground.
I have never had to stoop to fridge sabotage. I have my own little fridge at my desk. Nobody bothers it, and I never have to get up to get stuff.
Confrontation is not exactly a good idea now. The person you have to speak to might just report you for creating a "hostile work environment" or "harassment".
Confront them. If they have violated your rights by tampering with your property, you have every right-and should-retaliate.
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