33. Misconduct and Bad Behavior

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Read our Newsletters and Q & A’s:

i. Yours (or Allegedly Yours)

1. NL 1: 21 Ways to Avoid Being Accused of Sexual Harassment
2. NL 2: Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Duties – The Four “Situational Exceptions”
3. NL 3: Did You Know That . . . Recording Calls or Meetings Can Get You Fired
4. NL 4: Email at Work – Avoid These “Dozen Digital Disasters”
5. NL 5: Expense Reports Are Ending Careers Like Never Before
6. NL 6: Gifts at Work – Giving or Accepting – are Not Wise
7. NL 7: Giving and Receiving Gifts at Work -Ten Practical Precautions
8. NL 8: Is Drug Addiction a Legally Recognized Disability? Understanding Addiction, the Law and the Workplace
9. NL 9: Request a “Mental Health Day”? Do Not Use that Phrase
10. NL 10: Ten Ways to Avoid Being Made a Corporate Scapegoat
11. NL 11: “Box Breathe” to Lower Stress at Work
12. NL 12: “The Three Kinds of Fraud – Recognizing and Avoiding Them at Work”
13. QA 1: “Can having a business website ‘on the side’ be reason for termination?”
14. QA 2: “Can taking time off without permission get you fired?”
15. QA 3: “Fired for false accusation. What can I do?”
16. QA 4: “I was served with a Grand Jury subpoena about my job; what do I do?”
17. QA 5: “Is stating that I would not stay in a building on fire grounds for termination?”
18. QA 6: “Laptop missing before I left my former job. Am I responsible?”
19. QA 7: “Marijuana Legalization: Does it bring new issues into the Workplace?”
20. QA 8: “Must I give a tape recording to my boss?”
21. QA 9: “My husband was fired – falsely – for theft. Should he consult an attorney?”
22. QA 10: “What is ‘after-acquired cause’ for firing?”
23. QA 11: “With no anti-texting policy, can I be fired for texting?”
24. QA 12: “Can I be fired for being ‘insubordinate’ when I am not even working?”
25. QA 13: “Fired for Unknown Misconduct – Any Recourse?”
26. QA 14: “Is there an agreed definition of ‘insubordination’?”
27. QA 15: Did You Know That . . . Recording Calls or Meetings Can Get You Fired
28. QA 16: Terminated for Unpaid Parking Ticket – Is That Possible?
29. QA 17: “Can I get fired for refusing to work on the weekends?”
30. QA 18: “Fired after I resigned; will it affect my open job offer?”
31. WD 1: Blackout Period – Key Words & Phrases

ii. By Your Colleagues

1. NL 1: #MeTooEnabler – Might You Know One?
2. NL 2: Do You Know . . . that Stalking, including STALKING AT WORK, is now a CRIME in most States?
3. NL 3: Job Security Secret: “It’s a pebble . . . not a mountain.”
4. QA 1: “How can I prevent being blamed for misconduct by former colleagues?”
5. QA 2: “I fear workplace violence; what should I do?”
6. QA 3: “Is it ‘reverse discrimination’ if some people can use racist words, but some people can’t?”
7. QA 4: “Can I fight my employer for enforcing a rule on me on the basis that others break the rules, too?”
8. QA 5: Job Security Secret: “It’s a pebble . . . not a mountain.”

iii. By Your Boss

1. NL 1: “Recording Conversations with Your Boss or HR” What You Need to Know
2. NL 2: Is it RIGHT to do THAT? Ethics Clarified by Six Questions
3. QA 1: “How should I tell Senior Management I don’t want to work for my new boss?”
4. QA 2: “Is there ‘life’ beyond a horrible firing?”
5. QA 3: “My former employer has literally destroyed me. What can I do?”
6. QA 4: “My former employer took money out of my bank account. Is that legal?”
7. QA 5: Boss is lying on her time sheets. How do I report it?
8. QA 6: Don’t worry about a bully boss’s “sensitivity.”
9. QA 7: “After reporting our boss for improper behavior, what can we do to prevent being retaliated against?”
10. WD 1: Quid Pro Quo – Key Words & Phrases
11. WD 2: Tortious Interference – Key Words & Phrases

iv. Reporting or Complaining About

1. NL 1: “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – A Primer for Employees”
2. NL 2: Filing a Complaint or Grievance at Work? Remember that “Specificity Yields Credibility”
3. NL 3: I.R.S. Pays Employee $4.5 Million for Reporting Employer’s Tax Cheating: The Eight Things You Need to Know
4. NL 4: Seen Accounting Fraud? New and Powerful “Whistleblower” Protections for Employees
5. NL 5: Should I Report THIS to HR? – 11 Pro’s and Con’s
6. NL 6: “#MeToo is Now #YouToo, Too” – Dignity for one requires dignity for all
7. QA 1: “How should I report a sadistic manager / bully boss?”
8. QA 2: “My HR Director gave a company ID to her husband, a sex offender. Your thoughts?”
9. QA 3: “If I file a complaint against a colleague, can HR turn it around and blame me?”
10. WD 1: Letter of Education – Key Words & Phrases