How do companies handle 'he-said she-said' situations with no objective evidence either way?

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

Recently, a co-worker of mine claimed to my supervisor that while I was on a forklift and relocating pallets, I pushed a pallet and hit her with it twice throughout the href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/day">day. I told my supervisor that I did push a pallet close to my co-worker and she was startled by it, but nothing ever came close to hitting her, not even once. My supervisor "temporarily" took me off of the forklift until the people in HR can figure out what's going on. It'll be a few href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/day">days before I go back in for my shift, but there are no camera's to prove what happened and no injuries or marks on my co-worker. I'm not sure if it would be better to go in and talk to HR to find out what they'll say and explain my side of the story better, or just wait until my shift starts and find out from my supervisor. I don't think I'm at risk of getting fired, but I'm worried I may lose my position for forklift operating.

How do companies handle a my-word-against-yours situation?

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manpreet 2 years ago

As a general rule, HR people look for patterns - do you drive a forklift carelessly and damage goods, hurt people, or wreck equipment routinely? If so, they're going to pull you off forklift duty.

Similarly, is the lady a 'complainer'? Does it seem like everyone she comes in href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/contact">contact with bothers her, or some group of people are 'problems' that she can barely deal with.

She might be afraid you will hit her the way you're operating the equipment - if she has to be in the warehouse routinely and you're operating 'too close for comfort' she might decide it's href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/better">better to say something before anyone gets hurt. If you cut it close all the time, she might href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/view">view this as an accident waiting to happen. However, if she's already told this to HR and they don't talk to you, she might be escalating it to something more serious to get them to respond.

If you know she (or anyone else) is there, back off a href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/bit">bit so she doesn't feel threatened.


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