Busybody Employee
Durango64
11 Posts
Not sure how to shorten this up..
We have a design professional on staff who is driving me crazy. He's good at design but a little sloppy...makes mistakes on some of his drawings and documentation and certainly does not like working over 40hrs a week. I'm thinking he spends too much time looking at what everyone else is doing and not enough time on his own job. (I worked with him for 6 years).
The problem is: he seems to be overly interested in what is happening on the shop floor. He is nosy about the work schedules and morale of the production employees, etc. He is not the only one who likes to focus on the production workforce. I assume because it's the largest division in our company and bears the burden of meeting forecasted product ship dates.
At a recent production team meeting in which all depts are represented, I finally had to address the group and, in more diplomatic wording, tell these people to basically MYOB when it comes to HR issues outside of their depts, unless it's something of an extremely urgent nature or a blatant safety violation.
The following day, this guy is overheard in the shop employee's lunch room telling them everything that was discussed and decided upon at the previous day's meeting. The minutes have not even been approved yet! We post the minutes 1-2 days after a meeting for all shop floor ee's to read. The prod. SV was a little frustrated to hear him informing her direct reports of what was coming before she even had a chance to.
How do I deal with this guy? I've talked to his supervisor who tends to get defensive and HIS SV, my peer, another VP, who acknowledges the problem. I don't want to drive the design guy out because he is a valuable EE, but he needs to 'stay home'.
help?
We have a design professional on staff who is driving me crazy. He's good at design but a little sloppy...makes mistakes on some of his drawings and documentation and certainly does not like working over 40hrs a week. I'm thinking he spends too much time looking at what everyone else is doing and not enough time on his own job. (I worked with him for 6 years).
The problem is: he seems to be overly interested in what is happening on the shop floor. He is nosy about the work schedules and morale of the production employees, etc. He is not the only one who likes to focus on the production workforce. I assume because it's the largest division in our company and bears the burden of meeting forecasted product ship dates.
At a recent production team meeting in which all depts are represented, I finally had to address the group and, in more diplomatic wording, tell these people to basically MYOB when it comes to HR issues outside of their depts, unless it's something of an extremely urgent nature or a blatant safety violation.
The following day, this guy is overheard in the shop employee's lunch room telling them everything that was discussed and decided upon at the previous day's meeting. The minutes have not even been approved yet! We post the minutes 1-2 days after a meeting for all shop floor ee's to read. The prod. SV was a little frustrated to hear him informing her direct reports of what was coming before she even had a chance to.
How do I deal with this guy? I've talked to his supervisor who tends to get defensive and HIS SV, my peer, another VP, who acknowledges the problem. I don't want to drive the design guy out because he is a valuable EE, but he needs to 'stay home'.
help?
Comments
What are his long-term career goals? Sounds to me like someone who is more of an extrovert in an introverted position.
Would also point out that his very behavior could be having the exact opposite effect that he's hoping for - becoming known as the company busybody or gossip will do nothing but harm his career. Have seen where people have hitched themselves too closely to an individual then watched their star crash & burn when that person left because they were no longer as valuable as they believed themselves to be....
Thanks again and Happy Friday!