Following company policy-please read

[Amandylinee]

I am doing this from my phone so i apologize in advance. i work in security and sometimes they shift you around. i am working a short temp position. the guy i work with was saying how he doesnt have any gas money and that he doesnt get his paycheck til next week.he didnt ask me, but i offered him cash to help out. he thanked me and what not and said not to tell the supervisor cause he believed he would fire him. i didnt really know why he would get fired but i gave him a 20 dollar bill. after that he told me apparentley it is against company policy to borrow money from your coworker. i didnt know this beforehand. if it was saud in my training i didnt catch it. the man i work with claims it was in the handbook. i confessed breaking company policy but now i worry, am i supposed to inform the supervisor of this? when he said he’d pay me back i said dont worry about it. i was just trying to help him out. am i morally obligated to tell the supervisor i gave him 20 bucks and he accepted?

 

[St_Francis]

You seem to have given him the money rather than lent it, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

 

[maltmom]

Do you have a copy of the handbook? Get one and look it up. The 1st thing that struck me was that it may not be a policy. It may be that he hits people up for money all of the time and he didn’t want his boss to know. You gave him the money with a good heart. You didn’t break any rules by giving him the money. If it is a company policy he’s the only one that would get in trouble for it.

 

[agnes_therese]

Some companies do have a policy against borrowing from co-workers. You should review your handbook, especially in case there’s anything else you should know.

I would be more concerned about working with someone who knows he’s violating company policy – I’d stay away when possible.

 

[Rainaldo]

No, it’s not a sin, but frankly you are sort of making yourself a patsy, even if it looks charitable and noble on the surface. In my experience, people who get you into conversations like that are just playing you for money.

I’ve heard the spiel before, no gas/bus money, payday is a ways off yada yada and the conversation kinda spirals a little uncomfortably in circles around that theme until you spontaneously offer a little something, and if you don’t then they humbly ask a favor to float them a twenty for the time being.

Even though I saw through his game the instant I saw the words “gas money”, **when you said he instructed you to conceal this from the supervisor, that positively confirmed it. **I’ll bet he has played this game before, mooching off of the nearest “nice guy”.

Put yourself in his place. Would you ask for $20 from some temp guy that you barely know? Me personally, I would consider that trashy and shameful. I was not raised that way.

Also consider this: if you borrowed money from a temp guy, wouldn’t it be super easy to delay paying him back until he is no longer working there and you lose contact with him? (Now are you seeing the big picture?)

So … should you tell the supervisor? I say yes. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the handbook or not, it’s unprofessional and annoying. But I recommend only saying that he asked you - no need to say you actually gave him anything. Will it get him fired? Probably. If I found out an employee of mine is mooching off of people I’d get rid of him immediately. (Moochers are annoying, but from an HR point of view, sometimes that’s a red flag that they are also stealing from the company.)

 

[Bookcat]

Perhaps I would not at this time say anything to a supervisor (it may result in effects that can not be undone…) (but then again I have never “worked in security” so I do not know for sure what to say here).

If you consider doing so – perhaps discuss it first with your confessor or if one does not have such – another Priest in confession.

 

[beth40n2]

Borrowing and giving are two different things. You told him not to worry about giving it back. You gave it to him. There was no sin as you had no knowledge of the policy beforehand.

Just leave the situation alone, and don’t give money on the job again.