Internet Monitoring Report spotted job searching [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I monitor the internet usage throughout the business and then submit a report to the MD.

On one report it shows a colleague has been looking for a job extensively in working hours.

I know if I submit this report the colleague will have a really bad time from the MD, plus they have just lost a close relative.

What is the preferred way to deal with this situation?

manpreet 3 years ago

I monitor the internet usage throughout the business and then submit a report to the MD.

I will assume this is part of your job description - meaning that you are supposed to find irregularities and report on those.

Now, I understand that you have a problem with reporting on a colleague. The fact that the colleague may be going through a rough patch, is not relevant. You must also be indifferent to the specific irregularity (i.e. job searching, surfing for porn, using social network). This is your job.

In boils down to two choices you can make:

• Tell the MD, as you are supposed to. It is up to the MD to decide what to do and is outside your control. You don't really know what they will do, after all.
• Not tell the MD. Two eventualities here - either the MD never finds out or they do. If they do - it is your job on the line and you will be in trouble for not reporting it.