Work ethics is a fortnightly feature in Guardian Work where a reader submits a workplace dilemma and asks for your help. A selection of the best answers will appear in Saturday's paper. (And if you have a dilemma you would like to share, anonymously, with our readers, please email us.)
This week's question
My business partner feels it should not be her responsibility to clean up after herself in the kitchen of our small office. She leaves her dishes in the sink and insists that our receptionist washes them up, gets her coffee and so on. Our other employees (myself included – there are only seven of us) are happy to keep the place tidy, and I have asked her on several occasions to join in, most recently in an email. Now she has not spoken to me for three days. What should I do?
What are your thoughts?
