The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

[wease]

Hired a new girl on 7/10. She farted around during hiring and I was finally able to start her 7/31. She came in and trained and had a since missed every day she was scheduled to train. So 6 shifts in the last 10 days. After calling out for today and tomorrow and promising me she’d be there next week no matter what, I had to just now let her go. Sometimes you just can’t make things work out.

[E.H. Ruddock]

who the fuck misses six out of ten of their first days and expects to still have a job?

[BurtReynolds]

For some reason I thought there was a period after "farted". Not a good first impression.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

But they get paid because they were born, what else do they even need to do?

[wease]

Now HR is mad at me for firing her. Basically, they don’t like when we fire someone without going thru them.

[doug rr]

did you tell them to fuck off?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Now HR is mad at me for firing her. Basically, they don’t like when we fire someone without going thru them.

Rightfully so.

[wease]

did you tell them to fuck off?

Not in so many words, no

[wease]

Now HR is mad at me for firing her. Basically, they don’t like when we fire someone without going thru them.

Rightfully so.

Why? Let’s see if your answer jibes with theirs.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Now HR is mad at me for firing her. Basically, they don’t like when we fire someone without going thru them.

Rightfully so.

Why? Let’s see if your answer jibes with theirs.

The main across the board reason is to ensure there are no legal considerations or keep the company from being liable in possible discriminatory practices. There can be industry, company, state/federal law requirements (ie timing of last paycheck) involved as well.

So what do you do - tell the employee they’re gone then tell HR? Hopefully immediately…

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

Don’t worry, wease. She probably won’t show up for court either.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

Lenny, can someone be fired for constantly emailing me requests for last minute deliverables disguised as nonsensical gibberish?

[The Argonaut]

My question is, how does wease still not know the proper procedure for firing someone? He's done it a thousand times by now

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Lenny, can someone be fired for constantly emailing me requests for last minute deliverables disguised as nonsensical gibberish?

If they are in an at will state they can be fired for anything not illegal. The better question is should they. If what they are doing is making your work experience more difficult they should be given a spot bonus and certificate of appreciation for going above and beyond.

[BurtReynolds]

I didn't know sweat shops had hr departments.

[wease]

Now HR is mad at me for firing her. Basically, they don’t like when we fire someone without going thru them.

Rightfully so.

Why? Let’s see if your answer jibes with theirs.

The main across the board reason is to ensure there are no legal considerations or keep the company from being liable in possible discriminatory practices. There can be industry, company, state/federal law requirements (ie timing of last paycheck) involved as well.

So what do you do - tell the employee they’re gone then tell HR? Hopefully immediately…

Yep. That’s exactly what I did. As for last paycheck, this will be her only paycheck from us.

[wease]

My question is, how does wease still not know the proper procedure for firing someone? He's done it a thousand times by now

He knows. He also knew HR wouldn’t like it. But sometimes you just gotta do what’s best for the center and let HR sort it out later.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

Lenny, can someone be fired for constantly emailing me requests for last minute deliverables disguised as nonsensical gibberish?

If they are in an at will state they can be fired for anything not illegal. The better question is should they. If what they are doing is making your work experience more difficult they should be given a spot bonus and certificate of appreciation for going above and beyond.

And the bleeding continues…..

[spike]

wease going rogue