People...I hate them. On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:59 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> This is what I do now every time we fire someone. > > They always apply for benefits it seems. There is always a hearing. > We win the hearings but it is a PITA... > > After this I went out and appologized to the crew that witnessed it. It > has been years since I lost my cool like that. They were all seemingly > delighted that the guy is now gone. > In all my years of firing people, many dozens, perhaps as many as 100, > only 1 was a situation where I regretted it afterwards. The guy was > following along with some dishonest activity by a coworker and did not > stand up to him. He truly did not deserve to lose his job. All the rest > of them I typically say to myself afterwards: “should have done this long > ago”. > > Also, batting 0000 for having formal disciplinary meetings result in a > permanent change of behavior. I guess we do them for evidence in the > certain to be unemployment benefits hearing... > > (BTW, the the tale below, this was a truck we bought at Richie Brothers a > couple of weeks ago and had not yet got a duplicate key made). > > *From:* ch...@wbmfg.com > *Sent:* Monday, July 13, 2020 11:36 AM > *To:* > *Subject:* xxx > > Put this in xxx personnel file. > > Thursday last week a company truck was parked here at the company by xxx. > He did not put the key back in the key box. It is the only key we had for > that truck and that truck is a critical vehicle. > > This morning (7/13/2020) a group of employees were out on the back lot > working on a project and I walked up and asked them who was last to drive > the red truck. They indicated it was xxx. I asked where the key was, he > was very non committal. Essentially shrugging his shoulders. I told him > that it must be between the truck and the office key box, did he walk that > route and look for it. Nope, he said, he went and did some other things > after parking the truck. I asked him if he went to those other areas and > looked for the key. Nope... Didn’t seem to care. Had a defiant attitude. > > So I said that in times like these, an owner of the equipment is always > happy to hear, “hey chuck, sorry, I f**ked up”. That was met with no > response. > I repeated it a second and third time. I started laughing and turned to > his supervisor. His supervisor xxx said “hey dude, you need to say those > words to Chuck”. xxx mumbled some semblance of the phrase but immediately > followed it with an energetic “you didn’t apologize to me for putting the > orange drums against my truck”. > > xxx, from day 1 parked first in the bookkeeper’s parking stall, we asked > him to park out with the other employees. He then parked in our loading > dock blocking us from using it. We had a talk about that. He finally > parked with the rest of the employees but on the edge of a drive forcing > everyone to swing wide around his truck and preventing us from taking > larger trucks in that parking lot. I put up some orange construction > barrels to block off the area where I didn’t want any one to park. That > was OK for a day or two but then I came to work and the barrels were in the > dirt and xxx had parked on the far end again. > > I put the barrels in front and to the side of his truck and called his > supervisor to have him inform xxx that that corner of the parking lot is a > no park area. > > So this morning when xxx defiantly proclaimed that he was owed an apology > I lost my cool, I told him that it was my parking lot and I could do what I > wanted. That in the future he could leave his truck at home and catch a > ride with someone else. I also said that he may have just lost his job. > > I came back to the office to cool off. Called a manager (xxx at 10:20 am) > that was out sick this morning. He said that xxx had not changed much > since our last formal disciplinary meeting, so he is fine for xxx to be > gone. I called xxx (at 10:26 am) and told him to tell xxx to clock out and > go home. We then decided to make this permanent. > > From day one xxx was aloof. Telling his co-workers he knew more about our > business than we did. One of our employees quickly asked to to be paired > up with xxx. We never asked for specifics. It may have some racial > tension. xxx would refuse to sit at the table when we had company > meetings. He would show up late and either not come into the meeting room > or stand away from the rest of us. > > He decided to put a water tank on a truck and drive it over I-80 to a job > site. He was not asked to put the tank on, the tank was not put on in a > safe manner and when queried about it he said that Ben McCown and xxx > wanted it done. To the contrary Ben told him not to put the tank on as it > would not be safe and xxx said that he never talked to xxx about it and > felt xxx was lying. > > We have one formal, signed, disciplinary record in the file covering many > of these argumentative and attitudinal issues. > He was fired for cause this morning. > Open insubordination officially but the culmination of a long series of > events as they usually are. > > 11:30 am 7/13/2020 > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell
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