I am writing a letter about a complain with a supervisor. Is it appropriate to put it in an editorial?

Question

Is it appropriate to put the letter in an editorial of a newspaper?

Answer 1

Your supervisor from work or a city supervisor. If your beef is with a city official air it in public, that gets results.

If you air a grief with your work supervisor in public you risk losing your job for making a private matter public. It is not an appropriate forum and you are not covered under any whistleblower protection if you do so.

Answer 2

What are you hoping to gain?

If this complaint is about something that goes on in the company that's illegal, then you should take the issue to the authorities or through the proper channels.

You can certainly write an editorial and you can put the text of the letter into the editorial. Free speech. What will make or break you is your own "editorial" portion. You need to be sure that your are not slandering the other person or that people who have nothing to do with your case suffer as a result of your letter.

Also be prepared for a backlash. If you're telling the truth and you have hard evidence to back up your case, you should have nothing to worry about. Again.. just be aware of the potential consequences and think it through carefully.

Answer 3

not if you want to keep your job. If you have already quit, you will be doing nothing but burning a bridge behind you, and possibly screwing up your chances to find another job, because when a prospective employer calls to find out about your performance at your last job, I doubt the supervisor you wrote the editorial about will give you a good review. Just let it go.

Answer 4

Don't write a letter of apology. The sooner you let this cool down the better things will be. Act normal, don't refer to the incident and do the best you can at your job. Supervisor will get over it and so will you. Ignore it for now, carry on as usual. Then, stop complaining to co-workers.

Answer 5

If you are still employed with the company where your supervisor works at, dont you have a chain of command that you follow? Go to the next authority.
What is it you want to complain about? writing or leaving slanderous marks about your supervisor can result you into termination of your job or if you are not employed bad reviews on your job performance where you worked at.Besides writing a letter they will need your full legal name.Do you want to chance that?

Answer 6

It depends. If you can clean it up to the point that no one would be able to identify the company, supervisor or the AUTHOR, I don't see a problem ethically, morally or legally with the issue.

If you are trying to "stick it to the supervisor", this is the wrong way to do it. Address him directly, contact HR, or--depending on your company's culture--have a word with your supervisor's boss. You'll have to figure out who you can discuss this with to get the best result. Whatever you do, you should be discrete. Your issues should be discussed privately and with professional respect.

Answer 7

You plan to complain about your supervisor outside of your work environs? I think that's totally inappropriate unless the gist of your complaint affects the community at large.

Answer 8

no i don't hence if the shoes were on the other feet would you want that .. talk one on one if that doesn't work go up the chain the editorial seems as if you are trying to publicly embarrass him

Answer 9

no... why dont you complain to the supervisor directly.. if that gets nowhere, then go put it in the newspaper.

Answer 10

Are you saying that you are going to air your company's dirty laundry in public? I doubt that is a good idea. It will probably backfire, and may cause you problems.