Refusal to Work | Operational Disruption | Aaden Detective Agency Munich

As an employer looking into the services of a detective agency such as Aaden Detective Agency Munich, you have likely been increasingly confronted in recent years with disloyal employees and their misconduct: working time fraud, false sick leave, corporate espionage, bribery, theft, and more continue to cause serious concern. Our business detectives in Munich are regularly called upon to assist in exposing such behavior. Especially in cases like working time fraud, employees often show remarkable creativity—as demonstrated by the following case, which involved not only eccentricity but outright absurd behavior:

No Performance + Obstruction of Colleagues

Karola C. (all names changed) was an employee of a large Munich institute and worked there part-time as a typist. An employee of this institute works from time to time with Aaden Detective Agency Munich and reported this case to our detectives. At first, Karola sat in an office with several male and female colleagues, but due to her socially incompatible behavior toward the other employees she could not remain in that office. To her colleagues, Karola appeared stubborn, argumentative, and incorrigible; her manner was rude, and her work also left much to be desired – in short: an unusable employee for all colleagues. Complaints accordingly came pouring in to management.

 

The institute’s management came to the conclusion that Karola should be given her own small office all to herself – that way she could work without being distracted, and the other employees could go about their work undisturbed. Unfortunately, this solution did not last long either: Karola did not want to sit alone in an office, but wanted company, as our private detectives from Munich were told. For a long time, department head Ms. Schmitt managed to placate her by credibly assuring her that there was currently no vacancy in any department. But after about half a year, she was virtually terrorized by Karola, who ran through the offices every day shouting her displeasure, punctuated by wild curses against the institute’s management in general and against the department head in particular.

No Improvement Despite Transfer | Consultation with Our Detectives from Munich

Karola was then assigned – in accordance with her contract – to work in another department. There she was not employed as a typist, but as a technical assistant, with the same salary. Since she clearly had no idea about the technical side of the tasks required there, all that remained for her were assistance duties as well as tidying and cleaning work. That, in turn, did not suit Karola at all, which is why after a short time she once again started her now notorious “terror tour” through the office building.

 

Department head Mr. Müller informed Ms. Schmitt about the behavior of her former employee, and both then decided to involve the works council and possibly seek external help from the detectives of Aaden Detective Agency Munich, which led to a consultation at the recommendation of the employee mentioned at the beginning. Since Karola has civil servant status, she is extremely difficult to dismiss. Our Munich detectives would have had to prove serious violations in order for the affected employer to be able to get rid of her, literally. Since this was office work, whose legal monitoring was hardly possible, and since Karola at least kept to her working hours in terms of presence, our investigators saw little chance of success in this case. Aaden Detective Agency Munich therefore recommended that the parties find an internal solution instead.

Exile as a Compromise Solution | No Investigation by Aaden Detectives Munich

The works council, Karola, Ms. Schmitt, and Mr. Müller agreed that Karola would now move into an office space in the archive. In the hope that Karola would decline and perhaps even quit, they offered her the position only as a full-time job. But that was not the case: two years earlier Karola had turned down the offer of a full-time position, but now she accepted. After training by the department head there, Karola was to fill out Excel spreadsheets on the computer as part of the restructuring of the archive and the associated data entry. Actually quite simple: of book A there are 13 copies in stock, of book B there are 40 copies in stock, of PCs there are 58 in use in the building, and so on – entering numbers from handwritten records into a spreadsheet. But even this workplace did not appeal to Karola.

 

Since the archive rooms are far away from all other office areas, a noisy round of roaming as before, her terror tour, was out of the question. Karola resorted to sweet idleness – in the truest sense of the word. Every time the archive department head came into Karola’s office and asked about the progress of the computer-based archiving, Karola told her that she could not get the hang of the Excel spreadsheets and that it would have to be explained to her again in detail. The institute ultimately does not get rid of her, and the detectives of Aaden Detective Agency Munich cannot really help either, but at least she is no longer disturbing the employees who are actually working constructively quite as much.

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