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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
This is the dumbest idea I think you've had. (note: you're not dumb - the idea is.)
I can think of no way that would more efficiently torpedo a career than calling the cops on a superior with a recreational drug habit. If one of my people did that to one of my peers in the office, my subordinate would soon discover they were out on their ass for trumped up reasons. It's an amazing display of disloyalty, and entirely outside normal corporate channels. In effect, what you've proposed is to have the guy arrested and possibly jailed because he's making you look bad.
The proper way to do this in a corporate culture is through either your direct supervisor or through HR. If the authorities need to be called, it's HR's job to call them, not yours.
Again, if I were your supervisor and you dropped the dime on another team leader for drug abuse, I would crawl up your ass with a microscope to find a reason to fire you in the most demeaning way possible. You've set out to embarrass that individual and the company, and that's not a person I would ever want working for me.
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The long tail of that is that most industries are small. Yes you'll probably be able to get another job, but once you're blackballed labelled as a non-team player, you're in for a good treat.
People asking "So why did you leave your previous job...." can tell that something is up if you are lying, even lying via ommission. These things come out when people talk.
If you think that managers don't talk to other managers off the record or in code to bypass the "disclosure limits" of recommendations, it's a very rosy world you live in.
I can't tell you how many people that tried to fuck me at work (and not in a good way) that got fucked right back both losing their job, AND their next few prospects. And like Jazz, if it's a mission, I'll make sure that when I find out where they land, that their new boss hears about their trials and tribulations to expect. LinkedIn and other social networks are a great tool for good and bad.
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