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I once took a sick day to attend to a medical appointment with my mother at the request of her doctor to discuss a mass in her lung. The appointment was early. I took the rest of the day off with her to help her process the possibility of lung cancer. We went shopping, we went to lunch, we went to a park. It was an emotionally taxing day. If a co-worker had seen us at a lunch and decided to “tattle” that would be rather uncouth and unwarranted. You don’t know the situaton, you don’t know what the co-worker is dealing with or why they took the day off. Maybe the jog was to clear their head before or after an equally scary appointment about their own health.Ask yourself why this matters to you so deeply. What does it serve to tell your boss? What is your intention? Your co-worker needed a day off. They weren’t doing anything illegal. They were jogging. That’s all the information you have. Nothing nefarious.If your intention for telling your boss is to have some sort of negative consequence for your co-worker, then I think you need to re-evaluate working in a toxic environment that sows this sort of resentment towards fellow employees. Or maybe your problem is really with the co-worker, in which case you need to address your problem with that co-worker like an adult…directly and honestly, instead of trying to get them fired. Do you honestly think your boss is going to think better of you for it? They won’t.If you see your co-worker running out of a bank with a gun and bag of money into a getaway vehicle…sure, tell your boss.If you see your co-worker beating up a homeless person…sure, tell your boss.If you see your co-worker getting arrested on the morning news for an illegal meth lab…sure, tell your boss.If you see your co-worker having lunch with someone at a restaurant when they called off…. mind your own business.If you see your co-worker at a movie theater when they called off…mind your own business.Illegal - tell the boss, not illegal - mind your own business.

I had a co-worker like that. I too was reprimanded for smiling. She was a new hire. I was informed I was to consider myself the new hire. I was no longer permitted to talk to my coworkers about anything personal. I was no longer permitted to answer work related questions especially if she didn't know the answer herself. If I was permitted to answer a question because she didn't like the person who asked, I was to write the question down with the time they asked and my answer with the amount of time it took me to answer. All this took additional time and was berated for taking to much time.She held a new employee orientation just for me, including a map around the building. She signed me up for classes so I could learn to do my job. The same classes I'd taken years before to do the job I'd done for years. I was told I excelled at my job and all my evaluations were A+ before she was hired.Before she started I showed her around, introduced her to co-workers and taught her what her job and my job consisted of, by her request. The orientation was her response. She felt she knew it all so she could be as nasty and condescending as she wanted. You see she was a college grad and I had volunteered for years before being hired full time a few years before she was hired. She resented that I had hands on training for my particular job.From day one she started stealing small things. Then it was cash. By the time she was fired she was filling her mini-van with anything she could carry. She tried to blame me and others for the missing money. At one point she requested $1,500 cash from me. I said no, she asked if I could discuss it with my husband. The next day she was on time, one of the few times. She met me at the door and asked what my husband said. I said “He said, no” She said “I'll give you one more day, to think about how you can get me that money”.I went to my supervisor and told him the situation. I also mentioned all the things missing, her purchase orders containing personal gifts for her family, my orientation, her not getting along with many co-workers because of being mean, including the wife of my supervisor’s supervisor and my supervisor’s uncle, all co-workers also. All considered me to be her boss because I was there longer and knew more and thought I could fix it/her.Supervisor sent my new co-worker to another building to do menial tasks that were tedious at best. She had virtually no supervision and limited contact with co-workers. Boss asked how long it should take, I said two weeks. He gave her three weeks. She claimed it was done. They brought her back to my building. Accounting had taken that time to go over our books and do inventory. When she returned cameras had been installed in her work area. She had a tantrum, throwing things and swearing. She was fired.She claimed I set her up. I was under suspicion. They discovered after her exit that no one did a background check. She had not graduated college, no reference checks were made, her work was substandard at best, she stole more than they ever imagined, she bought things without going through proper channels including office furniture. I was put in charge for several months, it took years to repair the damage she had created in our computer system.I was then sent to the other building to look into. She had told three supervisors she was glad she finished the tasks, while tedious they were detrimental to our department. I walked in and immediately thought she had done nothing but saw she did a little. I reported it to three supervisors. All three came in separately doubting me and very unfriendly. One supervisor estimated while there for three weeks she did approximately 1% of the job. While there she stole more.While working with her if I wasn't fast enough for her unreasonable expectations she had a fit. I was responsible for making reports and printing them. Our computers were linked and she frequently went into the queue and deleted my print jobs in the middle. Then complained I took too long and threatened to write me up. If I smiled she told me I was wasting time. I smiled at a child and she yelled at me and threatened to write me up.Watch your boss, they maybe worse than you imagine. Document everything. If anyone complains about your boss tell them to report it to supervisors. Document who, what, where, why, and when. Even write something that can and will remind you of that specific event. Do not keep it at work. I had caught her going through my purse, keep the list/lists away from her. My kids were in track, I got off work and drove to my kids school sat in the parking lot and wrote in my journal.Eventually I was given the department and had little supervision. But, I quit to be a grandma.

A young, female entry-level employee showed a pattern of combative and uncooperative behavior toward her supervisor.The supervisor, Sonia, had about 10 years at the company. She was a chemical engineer and had supervised other people. HR had seen no interpersonal problems with her as a supervisor.The company’s performance reviews included peer-evaluations. Two of the five criteria evaluated interpersonal skills: Teamwork and Interaction. She was at a level where she would have had 8 co-workers rating her work and workplace behavior, with 40% of the review about how employees treated their co-workers. Sonia did well on those factors.She asked me for help. As head of HR, I managed a disciplinary action that stretched over months, included warnings about termination of employment if performance didn’t improve, and ended with the termination of the younger woman’s employment.I was in a telephone hearing about the terminated employee’s unemployment claim. ON the call were the terminated employee; her supervisor; the head of HR (me); and the State of California’s UI examiner. The UI examiner asked her why she had done something that we cited as a partial cause for her termination of employment.Examiner: “Why didn’t you show up for the meeting as your supervisor instructed you to do?”Former employee: “Because she didn’t give me enough notice.”Examiner: “How much time did she give you?”FE: “She told me in the morning to come to a meeting in the afternoon.”Ex: “If that wasn’t enough time, how much notice do you think your supervisor should give you to come to a meeting?”FE: “Uh...at least a day.”