What Do I Do About Investigating Pronouns?
What do you do if you have an investigation about pronoun use? So I’m recording this in July of 2021 and I hope very much that this is the recording that becomes out of date the quickest. So, if you’re doing an investigation about pronouns, you should do some research about the use of different […]
What Do I Do if An Interviewee Is Unresponsive to Interview Requests?
What do you do if an interviewee is unresponsive, and I don’t mean like they’re no longer living, what if they won’t talk to you about setting up your interview, they’re ghosting you? Maybe you complete the interview with you and then they don’t follow up with the documents they promise to send over. At […]
What Do You Do if You Want to Make Investigative Decisions Based on Intuition?
What do you do if intuition is the only reason you want to take some investigative steps? I think if you’re a young investigator, you need to check in with somebody else and check that intuition. This is because every move you make is expensive for your client. And so if we have a more […]
What Do I Do if An Interviewee Asks About Privilege?
What do you do if an interviewee asks you about privilege for your investigation?A lot of investigations are done under privilege. I am not a litigator, I’m an investigator. So, I don’t pretend to be an expert in privilege and I know, across the country, perspectives on the way privilege will encompass an investigation differ […]
What Do I Do if An Interviewee Does Not Know the Answers?
What do you do if your interviewee does not participate in the investigation, or does not know what you are asking them? That’s kind of two different issues. So, if the person does not participate in the investigation, you need to, again, remind them that their employer expects them to participate, and it is likely […]
What Do I Do if An Interviewee Asks for A Witness?
What do you do if the interviewee asks for a witness? As attorneys always say, it depends. If the interviewee is a member of a union, they have a right, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, to have a witness. And so they need to get a union witness if they ask […]
What Do I Do if An Interviewee Is Represented by An Attorney?
What do you do if the person you’re interviewing is represented by an attorney? The answer is probably whatever your client wants you to do. So, if the client allows its employees to have legal representation in their interview that is up to that client and you need to handle it consistently even if it […]
What Do I Do if I Get Really Embarrassed as The Investigator?
What do you do if you, as the investigator, get really embarrassed? Pull yourself together. You are there to be a neutral, unbiased, third party. And as such, you can’t be judgmental. And a lot of embarrassment comes from judgment. And so, your work is about appropriateness and inappropriateness in a workplace environment. But remember, […]
What Do I Do when I Have an Investigation About Gaslighting?
How do we investigate gaslighting? So gaslighting, to my knowledge, is not a crime anywhere, but the effects and the reasons for gaslighting somebody can be awful in the workplace, right? So gaslighting is the use of psychological means to make somebody doubt their own sanity. And if someone is gaslighting a person because of […]
What Do I Do if I Am Investigating a Traumatic Event?
What do you do if you are investigating something really traumatic? Unfortunately, as workplace investigators, we occasionally have to investigate some really awful stuff. People get killed at work. People get raped at work. Some truly awful things happen at work and workplace investigators get called into some of that stuff. And I suppose what […]
