My manager held a staff meeting and spoke negatively about a coworker without actually using her name.
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Anonymous
To the HR rep, Thanks for the response. I am the person who wrote about the meeting. The coworker was not present during the meeting. My coworker was out on sick leave. Staff were told , “not to talk to her, to ignore her when she wants to talk” by the manager. How are we supposed to work with an employee and be told not to talk to her. We have to talk to her about work issues. Can management get in trouble for this even though the employees name was not used?
Anonymous
HR here again - I see this from a couple of different angles. 1. Boss is being an asshole. 2. You said your coworker was out on sick leave so possibly FMLA? If this is the advice given because they don't want her doing anything that remotely resembles work while on leave, I can totally get that. On more than one occasion, I've had to have IT suspend individuals' access because they continued working while on leave and this is not what we want and we do not want to be seen as violating the law.
Anonymous
Thank you for responding! The employee is not allowed to do any work from home. She was out sick and other staff were told to “ ignore her and tell her we are busy and can not talk to her “ when she returns to work.
The employees name was not used but it was obvious who my manager was talking about. Could my manager get in trouble for this even though she did not use the employees name?
Anonymous
As someone said earlier, that could be a 'he said/she said' situation. You can certainly share your concerns with HR and you should be able to do so without fear of retaliation. Did you consider clarifying with your manager what the intent was? Like was it truly they didn't want this employee bothered while she was sick? "When you told us to ignore the employee, did you mean while she was out sick?" I mean, perhaps the manager misspoke (it happens). If that really truly is not the case, then see HR. Provide names of others who were present when this was said.
Anonymous
Yuck toxic management