There is no HR department where I work. Me and my wife are supposed to manage a team of 28 people (24 doctors and 4 support staff) in the section dealing with substance abuse/ mental health issues.
6 doctors have recently joined this team ( 2 from India, both from Punjab / Hariyana area, both from the same medical school in Delhi.. batchmates)
Now all the new people are working directly under us ( 6 months training ) since we are yet to get clearance for Africa, the original trainors have gone to their own countries for extended Christmas holidays.
Now I don't know any of the new people all that well, they created a WhatsApp group and included Len and me in it. And it's the usual hi, hello, goodmorning type of messages and I've turned the notification off ( they are supposed to email for anything important)
Now one of the regular trainer ( on vacation in Germany) called me up this morning ( he's in that whatsapp group as he was the one who started their trainings) and told me to check whatsapp and sounded pretty worried and pissed off.
And to my horror I found that one of the Indian trainee posted some very objectionable photographs of a British girl, another trainee last night!! And called her an whore etc. There were more than 100 messages from all 6 of them throughout the night...it was a nightmare and neither Len or me could understand anything from all the messages..it was complete clusterfuck!!
I straightway called that guy who posted those photos. According to him the girl was sleeping with him almost on daily basis and yesterday evening he proposed her ( all of them 4 guys, 2 girls went out for dinner) in front of everyone, and she somehow not only rejected him, but also humiliated him in front of everyone by calling him a nigger etc. So the photos were his revenge!!
We called all of them at HQ, the Brit girl told us the guy is harassing her from day one and they had slept once in a drunken state.
Both are ready to go to the police..the 2nd Indian guy is supporting his friend, the other 2 guys ( from Sweden and Germany) didn't want to take any side but the second girl ( from my country Czechia) is with the Brit.
Now these are all grown ass people ( heck, all are doctors) behaving like highschool kids.
I am really pissed off about the Brit ( she told Len in private that it's obvious that I would try to defend the guy as he's Indian)
Can't let this go out of hand or let the police in...as all of them are living in the trainee quarters and if it leaks, it will be a big scandal.
There's no such thing as HR department..there are administrators, but I don't want those idiots interfering with professionals.
For now, we've diffused the situation partially by deleting all the photos but the guy seemed really upset and can do nasty things to the girl.
We really need to be neutral here and do something to end this amicably.
Personally I'm really angry at both ( the guy is a complete idiot to propose someone from a different country within few weeks, the girl is really obnoxious... but we must protect her)
6 doctors have recently joined this team ( 2 from India, both from Punjab / Hariyana area, both from the same medical school in Delhi.. batchmates)
Now all the new people are working directly under us ( 6 months training ) since we are yet to get clearance for Africa, the original trainors have gone to their own countries for extended Christmas holidays.
Now I don't know any of the new people all that well, they created a WhatsApp group and included Len and me in it. And it's the usual hi, hello, goodmorning type of messages and I've turned the notification off ( they are supposed to email for anything important)
Now one of the regular trainer ( on vacation in Germany) called me up this morning ( he's in that whatsapp group as he was the one who started their trainings) and told me to check whatsapp and sounded pretty worried and pissed off.
And to my horror I found that one of the Indian trainee posted some very objectionable photographs of a British girl, another trainee last night!! And called her an whore etc. There were more than 100 messages from all 6 of them throughout the night...it was a nightmare and neither Len or me could understand anything from all the messages..it was complete clusterfuck!!
I straightway called that guy who posted those photos. According to him the girl was sleeping with him almost on daily basis and yesterday evening he proposed her ( all of them 4 guys, 2 girls went out for dinner) in front of everyone, and she somehow not only rejected him, but also humiliated him in front of everyone by calling him a nigger etc. So the photos were his revenge!!
We called all of them at HQ, the Brit girl told us the guy is harassing her from day one and they had slept once in a drunken state.
Both are ready to go to the police..the 2nd Indian guy is supporting his friend, the other 2 guys ( from Sweden and Germany) didn't want to take any side but the second girl ( from my country Czechia) is with the Brit.
Now these are all grown ass people ( heck, all are doctors) behaving like highschool kids.
I am really pissed off about the Brit ( she told Len in private that it's obvious that I would try to defend the guy as he's Indian)
Can't let this go out of hand or let the police in...as all of them are living in the trainee quarters and if it leaks, it will be a big scandal.
There's no such thing as HR department..there are administrators, but I don't want those idiots interfering with professionals.
For now, we've diffused the situation partially by deleting all the photos but the guy seemed really upset and can do nasty things to the girl.
We really need to be neutral here and do something to end this amicably.
Personally I'm really angry at both ( the guy is a complete idiot to propose someone from a different country within few weeks, the girl is really obnoxious... but we must protect her)