Employee snaps secret pictures of coworkers slacking off, tattling to the boss: 'She will always find something wrong someone did even if it's minor'

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  How to address workplace tattle tale who takes secret photos?

  

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  Commenters gave their takes on the situation.

  

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• Nobody likes a snitch. It's not wrong to call out bad behavior, and someone needs to do it, but that doesn't mean you should make a career out of ratting people out. You'll quickly learn that it will help you lose the respect of others and will do very little to ingratiate you with the higher-ups. This is especially true in minimum wage customer service settings. In those types of jobs, you're all in it together. It's you versus the customers, and you need to help each other out. If you don't have each other's backs, then the whole system goes tumbling down. 

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• But that doesn't stop some people from violating the privacy of others and making themselves generally unappealing to work with. If everyone feels like they are being watched at all times, then it's hard to get anything done. Nobody wants to live in a surveillance state, especially when the enforcers are your own coworkers. In this story, though, the employee went a step above snitching and was actually invading the private space of the people they worked with. Taking sneaky photos of someone is a tell-tale sign you're in the wrong. If you stood by what you were doing, the photo wouldn't have to be secret. But that's what happened here, and the coworkers in question weren't quite sure what to do about it. Should they just grin and bear it and go along with the status quo, or should they bring it up to their boss, who didn't seem to care in the first place? The employee in question reached out to the internet with this quandary, and commenters came through with a lot of advice. It turns out many of us have had a coworker whom we couldn't trust, and there are lots of ways to navigate around that. Read on to see what they had to say. 

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