Basically a co worker decided to “take a stand” against another department and dump cartloads of product materials in the guys cube. To top it off he photographs the mess.
Scene: [Next Day] The other department supervisor is mad. My department takes it as a big joke and my boss and boss-boss find it funny-my co worker even blatantly struts around saying he did it. Now one of these photographs finds:rolleyes: its way to the other department’s supervisor. My boss and boss-boss are mad-not at the vandalism but that their is a rat in our department whom hurt our relationship with the other department by causing “leaks”. There’s threats of ethics boards, HR department, etc.
My question: If I did it, and they found out is there grounds for my dismissal? :eek: I think if nothing else it falls under the whistleblowers clause and just makes a big legal mess for them if they touch me.
You don’t say where you are…but in a right-to-work state, they can fire if they don’t like your shoes. They can fire you for any reason out of the federally prohibited reasons.
I doubt this falls under the whistle blower acts, since whoever did it was not reporting anything illegal. However, if your boss really thought that the vandalism was a joke, your department sounds like a good one to get out of.
There’s a rat? Shit!! That kind of story would have made its rounds eventually. If you, or your friend did it, deny it, because it would have been found out anyway.
You took pictures!? (Not you, but someone). Remember Watergate?
Some companies have published polices prohibiting harassment of other employees. Certainly making an incredible mess in someone’s cubicle can be considered harassment, not to mention interfering with that person performing his work.