HR advice for non-HR person

[BostonWill]

Hoping to get some insight here from the HR people in attendance: I'm an innocent bystander in an ongoing feud between two people in my office. I like and enjoy working with both, but I continually find myself having to break up fights over often petty disagreements. Management and HR people are throwing up their hands, but I need something to be done so that things are a bit more peaceful around here. I don't want to appear to take sides at all, but I do want these people to get along, or at least to act like they do-- keeping in mind that I have no real authority over them or anything like that (we're all peers, and have been here roughly the same amount of time). Anyone else experienced this and have any insight?

[nelson]

Maybe the best thing is have a sit down talk with both of them and let them both know up front how their fights have created an uncomfortable work environment. It's best to let them know as they are so into each other that they do not think about anything else. Hopefully, this will resolve things. Good luck!

[sweetpoison]

Yeah i guess just have a decent discussion of the problems with the two of them and let them make an effort to clear their problems and make them realise that even though they may have personal problems this is a work place and they have to work as a team.

[aimee750]

You need to demand that the higher ups in the company do something about this. I can't believe that HR would let this keep going on. Where I work in the HR department we would work with these people until it was completely resolved. We would never throw up our hands and walk away.