Well, I did end up talking to HR, ( I didn’t see Crafter Man’s post until after work) and apparently I’m not the only one who’s complained. Miss Thing is being transferred and will be gone in a week.
Thanks for all of your advice and input, everyone. I certainly learned a lot, and if this comes up again, I will hopefully have a better idea of what’s going on and how to handle it. Not to mean I’ll go to HR right away, but I won’t give another person that many chances.
Huh. Well, thanks for coming back with an update. Your HR dept. seems … different, let’s say, from what I and some other Dopers have experienced. Glad the collective complaints were heard!
Thanks, based on her behavior I’m guessing that other people had charges more serious than mine, and that’s why she’s getting out of Dodge. Whatever the case, I’m not sorry to see her go.
Sigh
And women wonder why they make less than men and have problems getting hired for anything other than HR or PR or marketing?
BITCHES PLEASE!!
Crazy people don’t respond to reason. They respond to fear.
And now the thread is complete. Mods, please close now.
You reported someone to HR because you smile at her and she scowls at you? Seriously?
You may think that you “won” this because she’s being transferred (that was probably already in the works since it’s happening so fast and likely had little to do with your complaint) but I’m quite sure that you are firmly in the “whiner” category at your job now. Congrats!
<Indiana Jones>Now you’re getting nasty.</Indiana Jones>
<Dashiell Parr>Oh! I like it when it shatters.</Dashiell Parr>
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The OP lucked out in this case. Because generally speaking, you never want to go to HR to complain about someone. (See my comments above.)
See, men complain like THIS but women complain like THAT.
No, it was much more than scowling. It was insults and non-cooperation which affected my work and the work of others.
Maybe, we’ll see. I know the situation at my workplace, and I’m not too concerned about it.
Maybe she lucked out, but maybe she didn’t. HR isn’t going to tell her that she’s now a whiner. They smile and tell you that they appreciate you bringing it to their attention and that teamwork is important and yadda yadda yadda. Still, she’s now the person who brought them a junior-high style problem about “She’s not being nice to me!”
Whether her complaints are valid or not, it’s still her bringing a problem for them to handle. Like you, I think it was a bad idea.