JOAN WILLIAMS

Problem

In response to your actions, Joan says:

“I’ll try to do better”

However, the following Friday she is absent again and someone who says he is her husband phones in to say that she is ill. He sounds strange as if he has been drinking.

What would you do now?

Which of the steps listed below would you take? 

Open each one in turn and decide which to take in response to the problem above. Use the link in your chosen response to see the consequence of your action.

Telephone her home to verify her illness..

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Send some inexpensive flowers to her home with a ‘get well soon card’.

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Ask others in the department if they know what her problem might be, (only if you have not done this before).

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Wait until her return to work to deal with situation.

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Contact your Occupational Health & Wellbeing department to get some help with this problem.

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