I’m a sales leader and I have a woman on my team who is an absolute rock star at her job. She’s our biggest revenue earner and has the best customer relationships, and if we lost her it would have a huge negative impact on our company. The problem is, we are both single and she keeps hitting on me. She threatens to quit if we don’t have a no strings attached relationship, even though I keep telling her that as her boss this is not appropriate and we could both lose our jobs. There is a mutual attraction, though, and she knows it, so she doesn’t stop. What do I do?
Well, as a top sales person, maybe she is attracted to the chase and closing the deal.
OK, in all seriousness ( if I can take this one seriously) is that you are right about putting your jobs at risk, for reasons that anyone not living in a cave for the past decade will understand.
That said, I’m curious why she would know that there is a “mutual attraction.” Your employee should never know that you feel that way about them, so methinks you may have contributed to this little dilemma.
Proceed at your own career risk, but I would call her bluff. No matter how successful she is, do you really want someone like that on your staff?
I just made a job offer to someone who I now discover has said very offensive things on their social media page. Now I don’t want to hire him. Can I rescind the offer?
There seems to be a lot of this going around lately as tensions, rhetoric and online activity are recorded for the world to see.
That’s why job applicants should be aware of their social presence, because employers can and do check.
Without more detail and context, I can say that you are probably on safe ground to rescind the job offer if what they said wasn’t politically protected speech.
It is one thing to demonstrate for one party or the other on your own time, but it’s quite another to make inflammatory comments, hate speech, and so on.
Check with your HR or legal department so that you have support in this decision, depending on the facts.
Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of experience as a chief human resources executive. Hear Greg Wed. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. Email: GoToGreg@NYPost.com. Follow: GoToGreg.com and on Twitter: @GregG