Frank is a twenty year employee of Acme Corporation. He has been a satisfactory performer and hasn’t had any disciplinary issues. Acme is a manufacturing company, and the employees are allowed to take home (at no cost) scrap metal left over from the production process if they get their supervisor’s approval. You are Acme’s HR Director. You get a text from an unidentified number with a link attached to it. You open the link and there is a photo of Frank standing in front a barn with a fence on the left side of the photo. There is a caption at the bottom of the photo which says: Frank’s new farm, fencing courtesy of Acme Corporation. You enlarge the photo and see that the metal fence posts look like posts the Acme makes. As you’re considering how to respond, you get a follow up text with an address identified as the location of Frank’s farm. You drive by the farm and see the Acme logo on the posts. You bring Frank in for an investigatory meeting and he is rather adamant that the fence posts were scrap. He claims that his boss Jessica has given blanket approval to take scrap home, that she didn’t want to be bothered every time new scrap metal is available. You talk to Jessica and she denies the blanket approval policy and adds that she would never give permission to take home perfectly good fence posts that are definitely not scrap. The HR Manual contains a policy which reads, “Theft or unauthorized possession of Company material is strictly prohibited. Employees found to be in violation of this policy will be subject to termination.” Describe how you would address this case.
Frank is a twenty year employee of Acme Corporation. He has been a satisfactory performer and hasn’t had any disciplinary issues. Acme is a manufacturing company, and the employees are allowed to take home (at no cost) scrap metal left over from the production process if they get their supervisor’s approval.
You are Acme’s HR Director. You get a text from an unidentified number with a link attached to it. You open the link and there is a photo of Frank standing in front a barn with a fence on the left side of the photo. There is a caption at the bottom of the photo which says: Frank’s new farm, fencing courtesy of Acme Corporation.
You enlarge the photo and see that the metal fence posts look like posts the Acme makes. As you’re considering how to respond, you get a follow up text with an address identified as the location of Frank’s farm. You drive by the farm and see the Acme logo on the posts.
You bring Frank in for an investigatory meeting and he is rather adamant that the fence posts were scrap. He claims that his boss Jessica has given blanket approval to take scrap home, that she didn’t want to be bothered every time new scrap metal is available.
You talk to Jessica and she denies the blanket approval policy and adds that she would never give permission to take home perfectly good fence posts that are definitely not scrap.
The HR Manual contains a policy which reads, “Theft or unauthorized possession of Company material is strictly prohibited. Employees found to be in violation of this policy will be subject to termination.”
Describe how you would address this case.
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