Three weeks ago I had 4 people working for me. one of them was a temp that was being evaluated for permanent employment. I was very happy with his performance and made it clear that if he continued to work at that level, I would hire him and he would most likely be earning more money than he had at his last job. When I returned from my vacation, he stopped showing up. I don't know if he found a better job, had personal problems or one of the shop goons scared him away. Shame, being the deputy in the industrial Camelot I want to create would be a sweet gig.
Today I fired another employee. He made a bonehead move that very nearly resulted in seriously injuring somebody. It was only by dumb luck that nobody got hurt. I took that as my gimme and decided that if I kept him on, sooner or later I would regret it. I decided long ago that this person was a subpar worker, he had repeatedly made errors that cost the company time and money. There had been a growing movement from the people to whom I answer to get rid of him. I defended him thinking I could use him for less important jobs. I was wrong, my pride nearly had terrible consequences.
It's lonely in the middle.
2 comments:
AAAH. The good life of the supervisor.
Too bad you can't have people like that assassinated. That way you wouldn't have to talk to them. A knife in the dark and, whammo!, your troubles are over.
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