Last week, I was put into a very uncomfortable situation in which one of my coworkers said something very inappropriate to me. Rather than repeat myself, click here to read about it.
Here is what happened since last Thursday/Friday. My boss had her meeting with the entire executive group of the company (CEO, President, several VPs) on Monday. They launched an investigation into this coworker's internet and e-mail usage. I was told (in confidentiality by another coworker who was in on the meeting but wasn't supposed to say anything) that if they found anything else questionable in this guy's e-mail or internet usage, that he would be fired. If what he said to me was an isolated incident, he would be reprimanded in some way. As of Tuesday, that's where things stood.
Yesterday, the president of the company shows up unannounced. I am pulled into a meeting with both her and my boss and told - again - that I did the right thing in going to them. They apologized on behalf of the company and let me know that due to other findings, this coworker of mine would be terminated immediately. They allowed me to leave the office while he cleared out his desk, which I also appreciated.
TODAY, however, I found out even more. I found out that the president of the company had printed out some inappropriate e-mails she discovered in his profile (no inappropriate websites as he deleted his cookies at the end of every day) and that there had been MORE but she didn't want to waste anymore paper and was getting sick to her stomach seeing some of the things he'd written. The stack she had though - which again, was not all of them - was 2" thick. And while he deleted his cookies every day, he was dumb enough to send URLs from his work account to his home account so even though they weren't in his internet history, they were in his e-mail history! Moron. Not all of the inappropriate things were sexual in nature - he had religious things as well as racist things. They had the company's lawyers come in and showed them what they'd found and asked what their options were and the lawyers said, "If you don't get rid of him immediately, you have a huge lawsuit on your hands."
So what I did was actually just the straw that broke the camel's back. He did this to himself. There is no place for that in the workplace and he chose the wrong person to say something offensive to.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know what went down.
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And now you know you work for a good company that responds in an appropriate manner, too. All around good.
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