What should I do? An anonymous letter was sent to my organization maliciously destroying my integrity?

You may never know who sent the letter. While its normal to wonder, it can also drive you crazy.

The most important thing in this situation is to remain calm, keep your cool, smile, cooperate and go about your work. Do not allow the inquiry to interfere with your continuing to do a good job.

Second, your organization should contain any possible damage to your reputation. If they feel the need to look into the letter, then fine. Not knowing all the facts, its hard to say if they are acting correctly in even responding this way. They should, however, act in a manner that respects your reputation. The inquiry should be limited to what's necessary to produce results, and the people involved should be limited only to those that can offer necessary and relevant information and / or have an absolute need to know in order to complete the inquiry. That's normally legal, HR, your supervisor(s) and other employees that have direct and personal knowledge of important facts. They should do what's necessary to finish the inquiry as soon as reasonably possible so everyone can put the incident behind the organization.

The specific rules on these matters differ by country and state. Also, the allegations can be criminal, which is fairly serious. I would consider consulting with an employment lawyer in your area. I would avoid involving counsel in the discussions with your employer, and I might even hesitate to make public the fact you are consulting with counsel. That tends to put the discussion on an adversarial footing, some people will react negatively (assume you have something to hide), and it may appear as if your concerned and not cooperating. Having said that, getting some advice in the background is always a good thing ... and you can work with your counsel on when, or if, its ever reasonable to involve him / her in the matter.

Good Luck.

That is malicious indeed.

I don't know what was the content of the letter but did it contain specific events or generalities?

You need to understand the first datum that, one of the signs of success an individual has is that cur dogs bark in the background no matter how clean his hands can be. Even heros can have lice. Its part of the game and any sensible executive do not act on a single report, and ever moreso to an unsubstanciated report as you say it was.

Know the following datum : Where data is missing, people will invent one.

Though if you feel like you need to act on the report, here is the sequence of action.

1) You need to fill in the void of data with factual data. That is, now that you have a report stating that your this, that and the other thing, it will create a void of data for the executive, he'd like to know what have you been doing as a staff member/executive. You need to have statistics of your valuable final products and records at hand showing factual data of production that can be analysed.

2) Proove the false data. Show it. Create a little pack. You don't need to tackle everything. Something like: "The 4th of May I was not at work, I was here." Would tear the whole report down.

3) Discredit every rumor. Sometimes a simple negative works. A mere "Who's that guy to be so vague and vehement about me and snipe from the background, not much sportsmanship there!" can do.

3) Continue filling the void of data with factual data. Just keep on putting in your reports on successes, products, weekly stats, completed battleplans, executed programs/projects.

Remember, that such report is NOISE. Noise is very much unliked by someone in charge. It detracts attention and activities from the mainline purpose of the organization. Don't try to suppress the noise as much as you need to produce and do your job, otherwise, you will become an outpoint yourself and be identified with the report.

Remember that when one rises in power, one attracts attention from others. Some people are very nice, some people aren't. The ability of the "not nice" people is to create false reports and third parties while remaining hidden as a source. That is very cowardly indeed, but that's part of the game when you are affluent.

Hope that helps:

Alex

Someone is very angry with you.

I don't understand why anybody would pay ant attention to such a letter, but if you have nothing wrong, you shouldn't worry. I would be on the alert to try and find out the who and why of this, tho. They could strike again.

As far as what do you do? Do nothing, just keep plugging away at your job ans let the supervisors sort through it.

Good Luck.

I understand how you feel! It is very disturbing when evil points at you, let me tell you something, do not worry because the Truth will set you free. If you are certain that you have done nothing wrong, if you know that you have worked withing the organization's guidelines, pay no mind to the investigation. In order to form an accusation, they need proof. You can be certain that someone who is jealous of you, did this

to you, do a mental search among your closer ones, coworkers, exes, neighbors, even family members. Good luck!

Sadly you didn't let us know what you do for a living so it's a little difficult to answer why your org is taking the steps they are except to say that it is their right to do so. What about your current case load? Have they lessened this on you? If so you should seek out an attorney and have her/him on standby if needed, or actively involved in this matter.

Who could have done this to you? We cannot answer this. You have to look over the thousands of cases and see if you could have gotten someone upset. You have to look at those you work with and see if you could have turned one of them against you too. Nobody here can give you an answer to this question.

What will you do? Protect yourself and your job. Get an attorney and have her/him involved in this with your org trying to come to a decision on what has happened.

First off hire a Lawyer just in case you are able to find out in the future who did it and sue them or if it gets you terminated, you can take this company to court for wrongful termination. Maybe you can remember anyone who you have met in the past year who was kind of condescending to you. Try and think about that and act on it.

Stop worrying if you have done nothing wrong. It is up to your supervisor and boss to prove these things against you. Let them know that anonymous letters are not valid as proof of any wrongdoing.

I can't believe your supervisors would even act on an anonymous letter. If the source has any integrity they would name themselves. Evidently somebody is not your biggest fan but you will after to figure out who and why.

Some jackass that you pissed off. Don't do anything let your supervisor go over a thousand cases ( me I get that type of letter it goes into the trash) Your supervisor needs his/her head examined.

Although you SHOULD be incredibly pissed off, you also should not worry too much. If there is nothing to find...them searching your files will only serve, in the end, to STRENGTHEN your integrity. They will be left with no doubt about the type of work you do.