We've discovered that an employee has been drawing violent pictures at his desk. The picture is of someone shooting someone else in the head. The shooter looks close enough that it could be a self portrait of this employee shooting someone. Also found pages upon pages of him just writing down every angry thought he has, about how everyone's a moron and he's so sick of dealing with them.
Of course it could be harmless venting, but in today's world I feel like we have to treat this stuff like a zero tolerance policy.
HR's initial response was to suspend him and require that he get counseling before returning. However, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. I think we should terminate. The people who saw the drawings are all scared of him now and I think it's not fair to them to make them work next to someone who scares them like that. I could see those employees quitting out of fear for their safety. I'm thinking I'm going to push back on HR on this issue.
Has anyone dealt with this before? What did you do? What would you do if it were your organization?
Of course it could be harmless venting, but in today's world I feel like we have to treat this stuff like a zero tolerance policy.
HR's initial response was to suspend him and require that he get counseling before returning. However, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. I think we should terminate. The people who saw the drawings are all scared of him now and I think it's not fair to them to make them work next to someone who scares them like that. I could see those employees quitting out of fear for their safety. I'm thinking I'm going to push back on HR on this issue.
Has anyone dealt with this before? What did you do? What would you do if it were your organization?
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