Demoted employee threatened to blow DH's head off (his boss). Mgt did NOTHING about it.
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DH basically demoted somebody for not reporting to work for about 100+ days this year. The disgruntled employee calls the office FRIDAY evening and tells a manager he's going to blow my DH's head off. HR wouldn't go in to the office over the weekend to pull the shithole's address to give officers so they could pay the psycho a visit. By Monday, the officer assigned to the case is off until Wednesday, and my guess is HR never bothered to ask that a new officer be dispatched so they are content to just wait until Wednesday for the police to pay the shithole a visit. Apparently they did contact the shithole to tell him he is fired though.
DH went to work on Saturday, Monday, and today. nobody has followed up with him from HR. apparently no officer has been dispatched. no officer is at his office either. This is a multi-billion $$ company. Thoughts? |
Anonymous
| Why on earth was he not terminated after the first month? |
Anonymous
For fear of pissing him off? |
Anonymous
| We have an employee who threatened to bring a gun to work. Both management and the union went after the employee that reported this. They said he had "no proof the other employee threatened this" and that he was retaliatory for speaking up. Makes me boil just thinking about the dumb union. |
Anonymous
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Goodness, OP and 10:31, that's awful!
Did your DH call police himself? Can he complain to his higher-ups? |
Anonymous
I can only imagine how scary it would be to receive a threat like that and feel as though no one is willing to help you. OP, what have the police said when your husband has called them directly? Since he was the one who had the threat made against him, he has every right and should contact the police directly. If HR is not provoding the employee's contact information, too bad, the police should have other ways to find the individual. They could also show up at the office and get the information from HR. Also, if this is a billion dollar company has your husband looked to see if they have a Security office? I used to work in HR at a multi-billion dollar company and HR was not allowed to handle workplace violence issues. Our Security department was run by retired police officers and they dealt with all threats and incidents. Security should be much more responsive. (As an HR professional - it is DEPLORABLE that HR has not acted quickly and that your husband is still reporting to work while they are figuring this out). |
Anonymous
| OP again. Only the HR person has the perpetrator's address, and they told DH on Monday morning that they would get in touch with the police. Well, I followed up with the police yesterday and nothing had been done. They said the officer assigned to the case on Saturday morning was out till Tuesday, and that another officer could be dispatched if I had the address, but of course, I have an empty bag and DH is at that HR person's mercy. he called her 5 times yesterday. I called her at 9:30AM and left a message today. Still, NOTHING. |
Anonymous
I'm sorry, I mean I called the police yesterday at NIGHT and nothing had been done, and the original officer is out till WEDNESDAY not tuesday. |
Anonymous
| Horrible. I hope you get some help from HR and/or the police. . . |
Anonymous
| OP, have your DH email a note to the COO or President of the company, about HR's lack of action. Make sure he shoots a copy to his own private email. |
Anonymous
+1 I'm the HR poster from before. This is unacceptable that HR is not dealing with this asap. Your husband should escalate this to anyone he can. |
Anonymous
| When the original officer returns to work tomorrow, I am going to ask him to tell the HR contact in no uncertain terms that she dropped the ball completely on this one and that she is very lucky nobody to date has been hurt or killed because she would certainly be to blame along with the accused, and that next time this happens there is no excuse for an officer not to be dispatched immediately. |
Anonymous
| Your DH should have refused to go to work until they had demonstrated they have taken action. Really sorry you've had this stress, OP. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I'd write out a description of everything that's happened, including the times you/DH have initiated contact with HR and/or police and each instance of the company's failure to act and suggest that if anything happens, you will sue the hell out of them. Have the letter sent from a lawyer, or do it via personal email or some other way that shows a third party witnessing it. Maybe that will light a fire under them. Cc the head of the company's legal department, CEO, security, HR, and DH's boss. |