Nov 23
Reserved asked:
Has anyone ever experienced employee sabotage at work?
Has anyone ever experienced employee sabotage at work?
What kinds of things were they doing?
All of a sudden, things started to break in the office. First it was minor things such as broke door handles, holes kicked in bathroom walls, spit on all the corporation’s plaques and logos.
Then it became more destructive, $5,000 conference room tables began falling apart and very expensive color copiers shorted out by water. I don’t know if this is one person or even if it is more than one person, but it’s getting out of control.
Please answer what occurred and how it was stopped.
Thanks.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Sorry I haven’t seen more than one or two people taking the occasional stamp and the only mechanical things occurred because they were made badly and serviced worse. The kind of damage you describe would have taken time and made noise, who is in after hours? Who has keys? Have the locks been changed since the last firings?
You might want to get some hidden cameras rented for a while and not tell anyone, of course, don’t put them in the rest
rooms. but you can put them outside the rest rooms and see if anyone goes in with a suspicious package.
There is no expectation of privacy in the office, so you don’t have to feel guilty about putting in cameras, the bathroom is a different story, you can’t have any aimed at the insides of the stalls, but the courts have held that the sinks and lounge areas are not protected.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I have never seen this where I work but It sounds like there’s a disgruntled employee working in your office. It may be caused by bullying from a boss or coworker, making the work environment very hostile. The best way to stop this is to have a discussion with the employees about how to improve the work environment and lay down the consequences for vandalizing company property. If you don’t lay down the law, then this destructive behavior will continue to persist.
November 30th, 2008 at 3:32 am
is there a fix other than cameras hidden in the work place?
at one nuclear plant in florida a hole was drilled into one of the reactor coolant pipes(2 1/2 inch SS pipes) .
talk about jeopardizing the public health around the plant with a major reactor leak.
look for a disgruntled employee sometimes they start out small and work there way up to bringing in a pistol to settle the score………
get your lawyers involved and…….. sad to say the only option would be cameras………
December 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Sounds like you need cameras or something. That would really be the only way to get proof.
I was at a place that had “issues” with the computer network. I thought it was obvious something was being done to equipment. I wasn’t working there anymore, so I don’t know what happened, but cameras would have been the only way to watch the stuff.