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Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company witho

Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company without knowing the whole story.

greyhair 6y ago
You can never be to certain what other people are dealing with outside of work. Sometimes, management knows things that they are not at liberty to share.
- oneplane 6y ago
  <joke>Sometimes management hires a hitman to get rid of an annoying employee but then forgot about that awkward moment when they don't show up for work</joke>
- jointpdf 6y ago
  Exactly. There are a vast number of incapacitating health related reasons that could cause a person to be absent, e.g. panic attacks, stuck in a bathroom (IBS/IBD/Chron’s), migraines, depression. The type of thing that reasonably wouldn’t be broadcasted out to the entire team. I think it’s better to just assume nothing unless you have direct knowledge that the employee is doing something blatantly unethical like working at another job (has happened before).
prepend 6y ago
Management could also communicate to concerns coworkers that the absences are excused. They could also work with the employee to notify teammates in an appropriate way. Just allowing employees to disappear with no notice or trace is an environment where I won’t want to work. There are obviously situations where I have to not be at work suddenly (eg, medical emergency where I don’t want to share details) but I can just send a text to a boss or corworker and have them do the rest. If HR said they didn’t want to act to not hurt feelings that seems like there was no additional info, unless they thought that was a proper way to protect medical info (it isn’t). Sounds like a bad place to work and seems like a negative factor for companies wanting to do well or me awesome.

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Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company witho

by bitslayer 6y ago

Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company without knowing the whole story.

greyhair 6y ago
You can never be to certain what other people are dealing with outside of work. Sometimes, management knows things that they are not at liberty to share.
- oneplane 6y ago
  <joke>Sometimes management hires a hitman to get rid of an annoying employee but then forgot about that awkward moment when they don't show up for work</joke>
- jointpdf 6y ago
  Exactly. There are a vast number of incapacitating health related reasons that could cause a person to be absent, e.g. panic attacks, stuck in a bathroom (IBS/IBD/Chron’s), migraines, depression. The type of thing that reasonably wouldn’t be broadcasted out to the entire team. I think it’s better to just assume nothing unless you have direct knowledge that the employee is doing something blatantly unethical like working at another job (has happened before).
prepend 6y ago
Management could also communicate to concerns coworkers that the absences are excused. They could also work with the employee to notify teammates in an appropriate way. Just allowing employees to disappear with no notice or trace is an environment where I won’t want to work. There are obviously situations where I have to not be at work suddenly (eg, medical emergency where I don’t want to share details) but I can just send a text to a boss or corworker and have them do the rest. If HR said they didn’t want to act to not hurt feelings that seems like there was no additional info, unless they thought that was a proper way to protect medical info (it isn’t). Sounds like a bad place to work and seems like a negative factor for companies wanting to do well or me awesome.