Can an employer do anything if employees have photos an posters in their office and/or cubicles of paturdo..
HR question..
- Thread starter Pitt-Chains
- Start date
I wouldn't think HR could do anything about it unless he/she were asked to take it down and they refused.
Depends on where you work. We're told you can't have anything hanging in your cube that other people may find offensive. Obviously that has a gray area, but our HR would say take it down if someone said they find it offensive.
No more than if you had a photo of Hitler in your cube! The boss will know what a dumb and naive employee that person is and opportunities should dry up.
I will answer this with the assumption that you have something hanging and someone doesn't like it. Take it down today and keep the peace and your job. Really grey area but people that don't keep the peace are the first ones let go in bad times. It's not fair but it's a fact.
There is only one thing that is not negotiable and should stay and that's an American Flag.
If you want someone to take something down because it's personally offensive, be subtle at first mentioning it to the person. Give them a chance to keep the peace and if that doesn't work be direct and tell them why it bothers you giving them another chance to keep the peace. HR is next solution but make sure it's a Universally disliked display and not just politics or sports although politics in Government or Public is a whole other area.
Being in HR I haven't seen over my years cutouts however with that being said I have PSU grads I work with that PSU material but we just razz each other. For the peace of co-workers I would just let it slide if you go to HR the best they can do is it take it under advisement or a have a conversation. Bring something in the office Pitt related. You have bigger battles to fight than worrying about a JoePa cutout
Is watching porn on a company computer frowned upon? Asking for a friend
Notwithstanding the crap you read in the papers, it absolutely is working for the feds. I know of a person who was fired for that reason and another who was given a suspension for hat very thing where I work at EPA.
Technically, Paterno did nothing wrong. He reported the matter to his "supervisor" in 2001 and is accused of ignoring it in 1976 but that can never be proven in large part because he is dead. Having a Paterno picture up, as creepy as that may be is no more of an HR violation as a picture of Pat Narduzzi.
It's all about the argument you provide. I would love to see someone push for this....and want every detail.
