When an attacker consistently harasses you, you may hope that he would leave and go to another department or company. However, he may not have the intention of looking for another job or getting a transfer.
Giving him ideas of greener pastures, indirectly through his allies and buddies is one way. The other way is to help your trouble maker get another job. If conditions and benefits of the new job are right, he may be tempted to move.
Alan, an accountant in a computer firm, had a nick-name "Perfectionist" in his department. Caroline elaborates:
Caroline: You know how hard it is to work with perfectionists. Alan is the one. He went hysterical over minor mistakes. He insisted on doing everything his way. We were under-staffed but he insisted that we must complete the financial records and reports on time. And he told us that if everybody worked a little harder and sacrifice some evenings, we could cope. We felt that he ignored our welfare totally.
Due to such circumstances, I thought of leaving. But before making that decision, I wanted to see if I could get Alan another job, for the sake of all of us. I sent out copies of the letter to several companies, on Alan's behalf.
The letter she sent was to this effect:
ABC Computers
Dear Sir,
I am the Accountant with BBC Computers. I am introducing myself as a potential candidate for suitable openings in your company. As the accountant, I am fully responsible for the accounting and financial aspects of the company. A brief description of my responsibilities is as follows:
A)...
B)...
Although I am happy with my present position, and much appreciated by my management, I welcome more challenges, found especially in an aggressive, fast expanding company like yours.
Therefore if you need someone with my kind of responsibilities and experience, I would be happy to discuss the possibility of working for you. There is absolutely no obligation on either party. My contact number is 1234567.
Caroline further elaborates: After some time, Alan did leave for a bigger firm, presumably with better benefits. He told us he was approached and given an offer too good to be missed. He said it was that simple.
But not all similar letters were intended to produce such results. One person tried, but instead of enclosing the "applicant's" phone number, he gave the Managing Director's director phone number instead.
He employed this method to raise questions of loyalty and commitment of his ambitious and power-hungry adversary. His underlying reason was that an employee, who was thinking of better opportunities, should not be given more responsibilities. Make sense?
News or rumors of such nature can raise doubts, doubts which are not impossible. Of course, those are all kinds of strategies when involving in office politics. It is an indisputable fact that business letters play an important role in your working and office environment.
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