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What is the name of your state? Ohio
A woman was hired a few months ago in a high-turnover position at our office (small private company). She was fired on January 2 (could not handle the work or the boss's style, which can be abrupt and demanding). She got 2 week severance and I even heard she had another job lined up. Last week, two weeks after she was fired, she sent a long (7 pages) scathing "go to h*ll" e-mail and routed it to every staff member and we later found out she printed copies and mailed to some people who don't even work here anymore.
It's created a lot of tension because she "named names" so to speak. Repeated things some loose-lipped people had said about the boss and others, and some of the things she said she probably found out by snooping after hours. She talks about salaries, previous firings and people who got fed up and quit, who said what about who, who spends a couple hours on personal calls, etc. She said she saw me several time "with my finger up my nostril digging for gold" and that she hopes my mother taught me to wash my hands. She eavesdropped a lot and said I was "jealous of (another co-worker's) rais even though I grin in her face and go to lunch with her".
Another co-worker has been looking at assisted living facilities for her mother and talked about it while this woman was still there. The other evening her elderly mother got an anonymous call from some female saying "your daughter is gonna put you in the old folks home because she doesn't want to be bothered with you."
A couple of us were tempted to write her back or see an attorney. One person called and left a choice message on her home answering machine.
Boss has told everyone to stop talking about it, block her e-mail address, and that he will handle it (but as yet no one knows how). She said a lot of nasty things about him such as she detected body odor, that since he "wants to be high class he should first learn some things about hygiene", and that he used part of his grandson's college tuition money to take a luxury vacation". She worked closely with boss and had access to lots of information. She also said she hopes he reports all his earnings to the IRS because they have ways of finding out about "cheaters".
Anyway, I was wondering what can be done about this? Isn't it harassment or menacing? Can't she be sued or at least prosecuted and warned? This woman is very confrontational (which is one reason she was fired).
A woman was hired a few months ago in a high-turnover position at our office (small private company). She was fired on January 2 (could not handle the work or the boss's style, which can be abrupt and demanding). She got 2 week severance and I even heard she had another job lined up. Last week, two weeks after she was fired, she sent a long (7 pages) scathing "go to h*ll" e-mail and routed it to every staff member and we later found out she printed copies and mailed to some people who don't even work here anymore.
It's created a lot of tension because she "named names" so to speak. Repeated things some loose-lipped people had said about the boss and others, and some of the things she said she probably found out by snooping after hours. She talks about salaries, previous firings and people who got fed up and quit, who said what about who, who spends a couple hours on personal calls, etc. She said she saw me several time "with my finger up my nostril digging for gold" and that she hopes my mother taught me to wash my hands. She eavesdropped a lot and said I was "jealous of (another co-worker's) rais even though I grin in her face and go to lunch with her".
Another co-worker has been looking at assisted living facilities for her mother and talked about it while this woman was still there. The other evening her elderly mother got an anonymous call from some female saying "your daughter is gonna put you in the old folks home because she doesn't want to be bothered with you."
A couple of us were tempted to write her back or see an attorney. One person called and left a choice message on her home answering machine.
Boss has told everyone to stop talking about it, block her e-mail address, and that he will handle it (but as yet no one knows how). She said a lot of nasty things about him such as she detected body odor, that since he "wants to be high class he should first learn some things about hygiene", and that he used part of his grandson's college tuition money to take a luxury vacation". She worked closely with boss and had access to lots of information. She also said she hopes he reports all his earnings to the IRS because they have ways of finding out about "cheaters".
Anyway, I was wondering what can be done about this? Isn't it harassment or menacing? Can't she be sued or at least prosecuted and warned? This woman is very confrontational (which is one reason she was fired).
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