Is there a website where i can do anonymous ethics violations complaint? Or we can only do it through a phone? I don't want to disclose my identity as that might have repercussions.
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I wouldn't trust staying anonymous. This site can probably identify you.
@ds When you submit a ethics complaint via the website you are assigned a password and can use an external email address. You are communicated with via that portal. And they do ask follow up questions and do interview people. I have been a “witness” before.
It's a third-party website. Use a personal device and a VPN if you're worried about it. Don't use your work computer.
The core is so rotten to where the decay is already decayed. There is nothing left. Your only option is to make a complaint outside of U.S. Bank at this point.
@df This is true, because most people make vague, emotional, and generalized complaints without including very specific examples that can be verified, and because with anonymous complaints, HR cannot go back and ask the reporter for the proof needed. Thus, nothing is done.
What’s not being discussed here is that even if you are able to confidentially submit a complaint, nothing will happen and there will be no actions taken as a result of your complaint. There’s simply nobody home who cares.
@b9 There are no whistle blower protections when going directly to the OCC either.
The ethics line is truly anonymous, if you choose to be. Doesn’t matter phone or web. Run by a third party.
@OP You can also consider a connecting with the OCC. They are our regulator and if it’s a business or operating concern, they would want to know. There are some reward options as well if it’s a financial item.
@am I’d have to leave the country to protect myself
@a9 confidential does not equal anonymous. This is the problem. Yes, it's against company policy to retaliate, but they're not actually going to do anything about it. HR is there to protect the bank. Not employees.
Find a pay phone and call from there.
(Believe it or not, some do still exist.)
Wear a disguise (bonus points for haphazard wig, telescoping cane, and change in gait), and take public transpo. to get to the pay phone.
Bring lots of change for the call. lol.
On your way back from the call, duck into the restroom of a public place such as library, hotel, or bar, and change from your disguise (bring a bag) into your regular normal look.
Leave immediately after changing, don't hang around.
Tell no one of your whistleblowing other than the people you contact via phone.
I don't trust it's confidential at all. Think I would trust a random reporter at CNBC with my ethics complaints more than the internal system. That's probably why it exists is to keep you from going to the news
All ethics complaints are confidential.
Be careful / everything is traceable. Ever wonder why the TTUS link is personalized to each individual? There is no such thing as anonymous or confidential. I believe that of everything including the ethics hotline.
@a2 https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/60624/index.html
I believe it's only over the phone, but you can do it anonymously.