It sucks to let people go. The guy has is single with a couple kids, he almost cried in the meeting. Wondering how he was going to pay rent... Hard to watch, We did give him severance pay, which was more than a week and a half of his hourly.. We didn't have to do that, but we also aren't jerks either. :)
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > > > On 7/22/17 8:47 PM, Adair Winter wrote: > >> We just had to let an installer go, 7 write ups in 7 months. Always >> something small and always had an excuse for it. In the meeting where we >> let him go he complained that he hadn't been shown the right things to >> do and if he had he would have fixed them. It was garbage, he had ride >> alongs with his supervisor and had been told several times that he >> needed to make minor corrections in areas. >> In the end, you just have to document everything and bring down the >> hammer. >> >> > > ^^^^ This... is unfortunately how I've seen this situation play out far > too often. Which is what led me to ask this question. It doesn't matter > how many times you say things and how clearly you try to lay it out -- when > push comes to shove, somehow the employee had no clue they were being told > to fix things. > -- Adair Winter VP, Network Operations / Co-Owner Amarillo Wireless | 806.316.5071 C: 806.231.7180 http://www.amarillowireless.net <http://www.amarillowireless.net>
