Staff accountability

[patrick03xx]

3 employees had varying levels of knowledge of an incident at work. The crew supervisor and another crew member witnessed a crew member doing something way outside our policy but neither reported it. The crew supervisor did tell another employee who was not present and also sat on the information. The incident could have cause serious repercussions for the company. Close the doors type of repercussions. I am torn between suspending all for an equal amount of time to show that it is everyone's responsibility to reports things like this and employing varying levels of punishments to the employees. The crew supervisor would be the hardest hit, followed by the employee present, followed by the employee not present. Not sure the best way to approach this.

[mynewunit]

I would punish them all half of what they deserve under these terms. "Hey guys. How did this happen? Did you not know it was wrong? Did you think I was going to freak out and fire all of you? Now I have to punish all of you. This is the least I can within my power. If anything like this ever happens again, I wont be able to protect you. If you see something tell me. I will also be going around and reinforcing our rules and policy. If you disagree with a policy let me know. If we need to talk about the grey areas, the flexibility in the rules, how to change things, We will do that."

THEN, you have to care. You have to train them up. They need to know you wont freak out. Even if it is at Close the doors type of events. You need them to know when to bend rules. They need to know where the line is.