workplace help

DVardysShadow

Anihilator wrote: »

Um no it's not because if the OP doesnt ensure that the staff know not to do it when one does and they take action the employee will be on here and idiots like you will be telling them they are entitled to compensation for not being told.

OP needs to have meetings or at a meeting bring up the topics without names and ensure all staff know regarding DPA and also that they wont tolerate overusage of facilities for personal needs

Ensure its all minuted and people recorded as present.

Its then upto individual employees to take note. If they dont the OP has the grounds to take action.

As for the gentleman. If he insists on wasting the companies time and resources it will eventually be considered harassment

It must be nice in your world were people dont take the !!!! and are always innocent and do what they should when they should without any sort of management.

If you treat them like children, then the ones who you can trust will leave and then your only option is to treat them like children. And you never get the option to treat them like adults. But if you start off treating them like adults, you soon learn whom you can trust - and people like that are worth their weight in gold.

Frankly with your nonsense procedure, the OP would be better off not bothering and letting the ex-employee continue calling

Anihilator

DVardysShadow wrote: »

If you treat them like children, then the ones who you can trust will leave and then your only option is to treat them like children. And you never get the option to treat them like adults. But if you start off treating them like adults, you soon learn whom you can trust - and people like that are worth their weight in gold.

Frankly with your nonsense procedure, the OP would be better off not bothering and letting the ex-employee continue calling

Or the adult ones knowing they work with idiots know fine who it is aimed at and don't bother

Idiot ones ignore OP and they have more grounds to support their dismissal or such when they turn round and go "didnt know it was wrong you never told me"

Sadly in employment law the law is far too on the side of the little !!!! taking wasters and if the OP doesnt ensure they are all told they wont have a leg to stand on when they do what they shouldnt.

DVardysShadow

Anihilator wrote: »

Or the adult ones knowing they work with idiots know fine who it is aimed at and don't bother

Idiot ones ignore OP and they have more grounds to support their dismissal or such when they turn round and go "didnt know it was wrong you never told me"

Sadly in employment law the law is far too on the side of the little !!!! taking wasters and if the OP doesnt ensure they are all told they wont have a leg to stand on when they do what they shouldnt.

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jeffgeorge

OI you two stop arguing!!

You are all amazing, thanks for advice
xxx

Savvy_Sue

We had a similar situation in that a worker from an outside agency continued to call us even after they'd left that position (possibly suspended) and the calls were totally inappropriate! We solved it by passing them to a manager every time - risk of anything inappropriate being said to, by or about them seriously reduced.

And I asked everyone not to refer to this person by a nickname they'd somehow acquired, because it would have been totally inappropriate if they'd ever learned what that nickname was, and I've been known to almost blurt things out.

You know, you have a colleague called Vlad, he's not from round here, and everyone always calls him Vlad the Impaler to distinguish him from Vlad in accounts. So Vlad calls you one day, you recognise his voice and go "Oh, Vlad the Impaler, how good to speak to you!" Yup, I've almost done that on being introduced to someone I've always known by a nickame!