You’re fired…
No, not me… not that I know of at least.
My roommate has been dreading going into work every day for the past week or so because she’s going to have to fire someone on her team. From what she’s told me, it’s not because of incompetence or anything like that, but because he has simply not shown up for over a week.
The last peep they heard out of him was something do with his brother being arrested, so, a family emergency. The thing is, he had been gone for days by the time that message got to them, and he really hasn’t checked in since. Obviously, this is not the best way to handle all of this… he should have called in day one, and let them know that he was going to be out indefinitely until the issue was resolved, or checked in every day to let her know the status of the situation… but you just don’t simply disappear for days and still expect to have a job waiting for you when you get back.
They’re a little more forgiving than most… from what I’ve read in a few places, you don’t show up for a 2-3 days and they just assume you quit. In his case, they’re waiting for him to show back up again so they can give him the chance to quit formally, or they’ll terminate him. Given how unemployment works, I would think getting fired would be his best solution at this point.
I keep telling my roommate that this isn’t anything she did, and she shouldn’t feel like she’s ruining his life… he made a decision to do this. I’m not sure where he picked up his work ethic, but it was pretty obvious to me that you couldn’t disappear without telling your boss when I first started working. I’ve had a couple of instances where it was just the opposite; bosses wondering why I bothered calling so soon after something happened, or stopping at their office on my way out to an emergency.
This will be a hard lesson for both employee and boss, I think. I know I’ve never had to fire anyone. The closest I ever got was when I had to walk someone out after they had quit. One of the guys that worked for me at the agency found another job, an apparently it was too close a gig to what he had now, s0 we had to treat him as a "risk", or at least I did. I was actually happy letting him take his two weeks so we could ease him out of the gig, but instead, we had to treat him like a convict… stung a little for him I’m sure, and I know I hated it all.
Well, I’m off for my run… one of my ways to release all this pent up anxiety I wake up with most days so that my office doesn’t have a reason to convict walk me out of the building someday. I have a call just after work today with a guy from about a job… could be interesting, never can tell.
Have a good week!
J.
My roommate has been dreading going into work every day for the past week or so because she’s going to have to fire someone on her team. From what she’s told me, it’s not because of incompetence or anything like that, but because he has simply not shown up for over a week.
The last peep they heard out of him was something do with his brother being arrested, so, a family emergency. The thing is, he had been gone for days by the time that message got to them, and he really hasn’t checked in since. Obviously, this is not the best way to handle all of this… he should have called in day one, and let them know that he was going to be out indefinitely until the issue was resolved, or checked in every day to let her know the status of the situation… but you just don’t simply disappear for days and still expect to have a job waiting for you when you get back.
They’re a little more forgiving than most… from what I’ve read in a few places, you don’t show up for a 2-3 days and they just assume you quit. In his case, they’re waiting for him to show back up again so they can give him the chance to quit formally, or they’ll terminate him. Given how unemployment works, I would think getting fired would be his best solution at this point.
I keep telling my roommate that this isn’t anything she did, and she shouldn’t feel like she’s ruining his life… he made a decision to do this. I’m not sure where he picked up his work ethic, but it was pretty obvious to me that you couldn’t disappear without telling your boss when I first started working. I’ve had a couple of instances where it was just the opposite; bosses wondering why I bothered calling so soon after something happened, or stopping at their office on my way out to an emergency.
This will be a hard lesson for both employee and boss, I think. I know I’ve never had to fire anyone. The closest I ever got was when I had to walk someone out after they had quit. One of the guys that worked for me at the agency found another job, an apparently it was too close a gig to what he had now, s0 we had to treat him as a "risk", or at least I did. I was actually happy letting him take his two weeks so we could ease him out of the gig, but instead, we had to treat him like a convict… stung a little for him I’m sure, and I know I hated it all.
Well, I’m off for my run… one of my ways to release all this pent up anxiety I wake up with most days so that my office doesn’t have a reason to convict walk me out of the building someday. I have a call just after work today with a guy from about a job… could be interesting, never can tell.
Have a good week!
J.