To report this to my manager?

[Thelordnelson]

Colleague had an incident and has been off work a long time as not able to drive due to injury. Our job involves some driving and not able to work from home.

Colleague lives quite some distance away and our manager is young and inexperienced and appears not to question anything colleague says, just keeps taking the sick papers that are on a monthly basis.

I was on a day out yesterday and saw colleague driving into a shopping centre car park. I stayed parked up and they went into the store and exited carrying heavy cans of paint and some lengths of timber. Seemed not to have any issue with walking, lifting or driving.

As it happens we don’t actually need colleague back as we’ve all absorbed their work easily. They were a difficult person anyway and none of us want them back.

Torn as to whether to mention I’ve seen them or not. I have no evidence so am thinking just stay quiet. I am so annoyed though, they’ve had nearly 3 months full pay on the sick since the beginning of the year.

If you don’t know what’s actually on her sick note then it’s not your business.

Also as a manager I wouldn’t know what to do with that information, you can’t force someone back to work when they are off sick. Managers aren’t even meant to contact employees that have been signed off at my work 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well I'm clearly an outlier, but I'd tell the manager factually what I'd seen. Along with a comment along the lines of "obviously there may be other issues relating to her absence I'm not aware of but given that you have told us she's not in work because she can't drive I thought you should be aware of this"

Woah.

Bet your company’s sickness is way higher than it needs ti be. How lazy.

Assuming the colleague has a fit note still because she is not able to work/drive - if she drives herself while off, it's down to her; if she had an accident driving for work when she has a fit note for that reason, it's the responsibility of the employer.

How do you know what's in this person's sick note? The doctor deems them unfit to work so it's none of your business to be frank!

I wouldn't. Don't be that person. Mind your own business

Don’t be a brown nose

How is it lazy? Our HR are literally not going to give me anyone’s contact info. And in any case, you can’t call someone who’s been signed off and say they have to come back to work because you don’t believe their GP 😂

You need some management training. It’s very outdated for HR to be doing it all. (And I didn’t for a second suggest you tell someone they have to come back to work.)

what is it that you manage, if not people?

Well you clearly have it in for this person, I can't imagine just how gleeful you felt when you spotted her and started thinking of all the ways you were going to insert yourself in her business.

If a doctor had signed them off then they should be off work. Nothing to do with you.

Ok thanks, I’ll be sure to tell my current and previous employers (large accountancy firms) that their HR policies are outdated.

Oh you're one of them

I will take a wild guess this isn't the first time you've 'observed your colleauhe and reported them'.

I assume you fancy yourself as the manager as that silly young woman isn't doing well enough.

Mind your own.

'I thought you should be aware I sat in the carpark and watched her to report back tocyou'.

🤣

Does your company have a whistleblowing policy?

Like speak up anonymously?

I really find these sorts of OP sad. The Doctor has signed this person off from work. It has nothing to do with anybody else who this person may work with. If the management has an issue with it, then let them look into it. You do not get paid extra for providing your little bit of information.

Op wouldn't like that...

And just because someone can do something one day doesn't mean they can do it every day.

Exactly brown nosing at its finest🤮 wonder if the op actually speaks to this person she is trying to fuck up I call it 2 faced you sound like a lovely work colleague

That’s not what whistleblowing is. 🤦🏻‍♀️

If the GP has signed this person off, then there is very little a manager could do about it, no matter how experienced they are. I get that it's annoying, but really if there is anyone at fault here it is the medical professional who is continually signing this colleague off.

Have you really never worked anywhere that people share their lives and discuss quite openly what's wrong with them?

I can't be the only person who has known the ins and outs of co workers medical issues, it's quite normal ine

I find it odd that so many posters on here seem to have jobs where no one ever talks about themselves

There was someone a bit like this on an old team I was on, and then he dropped dead suddenly leaving a DW and young baby. You never quite know what is going on in people's lives.

I'd be interested to know how much her manager actually discusses with her (sounds as if she rides rough shod all over her as well) and how much Op makes uo