Reactions of Colleagues
The following feelings and reactions may be experienced by the fellow employees or colleagues of an impaired person:
1. Do you experience a sense of discomfort (embarrassment, sympathy, anger) in meeting an employee’s spouse?
2. Do you have a sense of relief when an employee goes on vacation?
3. Do certain employees cause you "after workday worry?"
4. Do you pass over certain people in assigning tasks?
5. Is it easier to do an employee’s assignment yourself just to be sure it gets done, and done right?
6. Is it easier to cover up than to make an issue of bad job performance?
7. Do you feel like you’d like to dig yourself a hole and pull it in after you because of the behavior of a certain employee at a company function?
8. Do you ever feel like a "pressure cooker" around certain employees, and you have to control yourself or you’ll blow up?
9. Do you ever feel really sympathetic to the family problems of an employee and that if you made an issue of the bad job performance you’d be a jerk?
10. Do you ever feel it’s none of your business because the employee’s problems are personal?
11. Do you ever feel lied to or conned?
12. Are certain employees in your department so-called "accident-prone?"
13. Do you feel uneasy with an automatic raise for a certain employee?
14. Are you fearful of employees who evidence use of drugs other than alcohol?
15. Do you feel uncomfortable around an employee known to have serious financial problems?
16. Are you fearful of including a certain employee in a social function because you didn’t know if she or he would fit in?
17. Have you noticed who usually is the bartender at the annual Christmas party?
18. Do you ever avoid talking to an employee about certain problems because you see some of those problems in yourself?
19. Have you ever said this? "That SOB! I can’t believe a word he says."
20. Did you ever end up questioning yourself about a task you assigned that wasn’t carried out properly?
21. Have you defended yourself on whether or not your instructions were specific?
Source: Ohio Board of Nursing, Compliance Unit, Columbus.
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