Why does my husband turn off his cell phone?
It is normal for him to turn off his phone if he is on an important meeting or maybe sometimes he just ran out of battery. But if this happens very often, it is a sign of something else. He wants to prevent you from calling and asking questions.
Do you pick up the phone when an employee is off sick?
There are some employees that think when they are off sick their employers should not contact them at all, so they will not pick up their phone. It is important you know what you can and cannot do in that situation.
What happens if you go to HR about your husband?
I think your concern is that if you go to HR (the wife) and say, “Your husband is treating me like dirt,” she’ll be defensive and she’ll take his side. This is highly likely. What’s even more likely is that regardless of the relationship between the president and HR, HR will take the president’s side.
Can a HR person be the boss’s wife?
Well, that depends on the people involved. If she’s a competent HR person, then I’m all for it. If she was hired because shes the boss’s wife, well then, that’s a whole different ball of wax. Remember, the point of HR is to help the business succeed, not to play referee between employees and management.
Can a spouse make a phone call to an employer?
A spouse should never contact an employer or a prospective employer. Not unless it’s to say the spouse is in the hospital and unable to come to work or make it to the interview. There are no exceptions to this. It looks unprofessional and, as you said, it raises questions about why the spouse isn’t bothering to make the call themselves.
Can a spouse contact an employer while in the hospital?
A spouse should never contact an employer or a prospective employer. Not unless it’s to say the spouse is in the hospital and unable to come to work or make it to the interview. There are no exceptions to this.
What should you do if your spouse emails your employer?
What the boss should do is either ignore the email or respond back that the company doesn’t discuss employment issues with people’s spouses. But he also should have alerted the wife — the employee — to the email, because she’s entitled to know her husband is sending emails to her employer on her behalf.
Can a boss discuss employment issues with his spouse?
Employers shouldn’t be discussing employment issues with employees’ spouses, period. So if the boss sent the husband a defense in respond to the husband’s complaints, that was inappropriate.