HR - The Final Count-down

While T-Money is being brought up to speed, it’s time I caught you up to speed on the trials and tribulations of HR. I can’t remember where we left her at (in the story line) but I’m sure she was causing drama.

I had continued to receive complaint after complaint regarding favoritism, harassment, and abuse of power. Her argument was that she was holding their feet to the fire over, and these substandard performers were actually retaliating against her. It was true that the complainers were high maintenance and very low performers so at the time, it was hard to discern fact from fiction.

One night around 7:00, I had an employee come back to work to meet with me. This conversation would represent the beginning of the end of HR, and represent an absolute turning in the organization and bring me face to face with assault and battery charges filed against me.

This guy was litigious minded, a former drug dealer, and worked less than 16 hours a week. This guy was a real contributor to the cause if you know what I mean. Any way, I invited him in my office and he began to tell me the story of how HR had been sexually soliciting him for months, that’s sexual harassment, and if I didn’t fire her, he would sue the company and me.

I saw this guy was serious, so I asked him for permission to record all the dialogue going forward. He quickly agreed, and actually seemed to be getting exciting at the formal nature of my request. Upon the initiation of the taping, I made sure that I asked him for permission to record him so that his acceptance would be clearly archived on audiotape.

With his approval and acknowledgement archived, I allowed him to proceed with his complaint. He began to tell me that my 5”2, 95 lb blond HR had been “woman” handling him while he was at work and he just didn't know what to do. He said that she would come by and rub his chest, rub his hair, and tell him all the things she could do for him if he would only let her. He said that it was stressing him out, preventing him from doing his job appropriately, and that the company was allowing this behavior to continue. His fear was that if he complained, she would have him fired.

I asked him why if this was going on for so long, why didn’t he come forward. I told him that I couldn’t fix what I don’t know about. In his own language, he said that she was in my head so he couldn’t come forward. I asked him what he meant by, “In my head”. He said that she (HR) caught me looking down her shirt, and to keep her quiet, I paid her over $500 to keep it on the down low…
What’s scary was that HR did receive $500, but it wasn’t from me…