Reported to HR for drinking Alcohol at my desk.

yvonne13_2

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

very true Yvonne - dont give them the satisfaction. Hard though. Just keep your wits about you. Do you have your suspicions about who they might be?

No....I'm trying not to think it's someone I know as everyone that I work with knows I don't touch alcohol.

Oh well if they had a plan it sure backfired.

Nicki

yvonne13 wrote: »

No....I'm trying not to think it's someone I know as everyone that I work with knows I don't touch alcohol.

Oh well if they had a plan it sure backfired.

I don't know who in my office drinks alcohol and who doesn't and there are less than 20 of us. Even if they had mentioned it in conversation in the past why would I remember that?

Besides someone who is known not to drink alcohol could be a recovering alcoholic and therefore more not less likely to end up swigging from a bottle of wine during the day.

If as an employee I had suspicions another employee was drinking at their desk the professional and appropriate thing to do IS to report the suspicion to the line manager or HR and have it investigated. Not to ignore it or to try to tackle it yourself. And the correct and appropriate thing for HR to do is to keep the identity of the colleague confidential.

Whether HR dealt with it appropriately is another matter. Did they say "Yvonne you have been drinking alcohol at work what do you have to say for yourself?" which is inappropriate, or did they say "Yvonne we've had a report you have been drinking alcohol at your desk, what do you say about that?" which is investigating a complaint and normal practice?

moneyistooshorttomention

getmore4less wrote: »

OP also getting food nicked, maybe someone is out to get her, might need to watch their back.

I was wondering if "someone" was out to have a go at OP. Having seen this comment then it does sound rather like it, as that makes two things now.

Be wary about other possible false accusations from this person. One I had a while back was that I got management accusing me of having had lengthy foreign phonecalls at my employers' expense. Fortunately they couldn't prove it (ie because I hadn't done so at all). Someone in the place must have been doing so and apparently I had fallen under suspicion because they knew some of my lodgers were foreign:cool:.

Hence, I think that might be another tack this person might try, ie to get you accused of having stolen something (be it phonecalls/photocopying/etc). Watch your back on that ..