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Dude worked for us for 12 years and always had attendence issues but it was always overlooked because they were traditionally understaffed. He didn't show up for work one day (in not only our district, but the entire company) and didn't call and wouldn't return our calls, then showed up the next day like nothing happened. I took him off the schedule (didn't fire so I wouldn't have to pay unemployment) and he couldn't understand it. Kept showing up to try to work.
He came in today and asked if he had a job for this season. I told him I had zero intentions to bring him back because I couldn't depend on him. He kept trying to make excuses, I kept shootin him down. He asked if I'd give him a second chance and I said I'm not in the business of giving second chances. I asked him to give me one good reason why I should bring him back. He sat there in silence for two minutes. I said I didn't have any appointments for three hours and in could sit there in silence the whole time but it's not going to change anything. He said he needs a job, I said I need to not have to worry about my stores not being open and him needing a job isn't convincing me. He started crying.
I did tell him I'd reserve a time for him Monday to come back in and try to convince me to hire him back, and if he didn't think he could, to just not show up and I'll take that as his sign.
I was just kidding - but yeah, no call no show is one of the worst employee behaviors. We try to impress that on our people...that what the first person does in the morning sets up the second person's work, and so on throughout the day. Some of them think that "start times" are just a suggestion, and that if they don't show up that morning, they can come in the next afternoon to "make up the hours". Some jobs, you can do that. Here? Not so much.
What it comes down to is I look like an absolutely awful human being to everyone when in reality, I'm being a pretty normal supervisor who is just stuck cleaning up the messes left over the last decade and a half by ****** supervision.
I have never been on either side of a situation like that but...if you just took him off the schedule isn't that essentially firing him? Or do you just refuse to let him work and there is some loop hole that as long as you don't say " You are fired" that you don't have to pay?
I don't blame you for getting rid of him. It just seems kind of shady how you did it.
I don't blame you for getting rid of him. It just seems kind of shady how you did it.
Found out there's a guy in my town that's been breaking into people's homes that are occupied by women around my age, 23. This guy is 22 and I know him, and so does everyone else in my town. Played baseball with him in high school. Apparently, this has been happening for 6 years and he always targeted classmates, specifically the hot ones. He got caught a couple weeks ago by the boyfriend of the girl who's dresser he was going through. He was held at gunpoint until the cop showed up.
In the incident 6 years ago, he broke into one of his classmate's homes and stole her underwear. I've been reading comments on facebook by victims of his. One said she woke up to him staring at her, and one girl said she woke up and found him sleeping on the floor next to her bed. Hopefully he gets sentenced to some serious jail time tomorrow. He's lucky he hasn't been shot.
In the incident 6 years ago, he broke into one of his classmate's homes and stole her underwear. I've been reading comments on facebook by victims of his. One said she woke up to him staring at her, and one girl said she woke up and found him sleeping on the floor next to her bed. Hopefully he gets sentenced to some serious jail time tomorrow. He's lucky he hasn't been shot.
Unemployment is pretty much guaranteed in Hawaii when firing. I told him I couldn't keep him on the schedule if he couldn't prove to me he could do the job. Technically I gave him the chance to get back on the schedule (this wasn't his first issue, it had been building up for years and even that same season).
I guess yeah, it's kind of shady, but I certainly don't want to pay unemployment out of my budget, hurting my bonus, because this dude can't do his job.
I just assumed she did because she said he'd never see her again cause she was going to go marry good ol' what's his name because he loved her, but comes back at the end.
And it probably does, but he's such an ***. Though in the book/play (Pygmalion by Shaw) she doesn't marry higgins, but instead Freddy. Shaw was furious at that change in the movie
I am a damn good chef.
Dinner tonight consists of ramen noodles (chicken flavor), two microwaved hot dogs, leftover corn, shredded cheese, and a few splashes of tabasco sauce all mixed together.
Dinner tonight consists of ramen noodles (chicken flavor), two microwaved hot dogs, leftover corn, shredded cheese, and a few splashes of tabasco sauce all mixed together.
that's freaky, Storm! Glad they caught him before it turned into something far worse for those women.
Why are these hawk fans invading our site to talk about their team. Don't they have their own message board? Ugh
I'm fine with it as long as they're not d bags. The problem is, only a select handful of them don't act like d bags.
Lots of sweat equity and hundreds of hours owed back to me from working on my architect neighbors house. From the foundation to the finished first floor was all me and friends laying block, pouring concrete and doing beams and I-joists. Above that I did most of the wiring, all of sheetrock and insulation and subcontracted the rest directly, no prime contractor.
And while it is contemporary, it's no FLW, it's a Jafvert with a degree of Boxster thrown in especially from the view point of my photo. Concept was literally drawn on napkins in a restaurant with Flair pens. Jafvert had a recognizable contemporary style and did lots of houses in my hood.
I never said I finished my government career as a low graded running dog lackey. I sold out for the bigger management paycheck.
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I remember now about the girl 6 years ago saying her house was broken into. She was home alone at the time. Back then, this guy was well over 200lbs about 5'10", and she was, I would say, about 100, and 5'5". You think you would feel safe in a small town, where you know almost everyone. This kind of thing makes me worry about my sister. From what she tells me and what I've seen walk out of the high school, if someone else could be doing stuff like this or worse.
This made me wiki it. That was a fun read. I may have to agree with Shaw, but the clever 'ambiguous' ending in the Rex Harrison film was good. It could be a happy ending that people wanted or whatever.
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