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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
You've hired the wrong people then.
-Wayne
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That's one issue with corporate America, though. My previous management job was for a smaller company, and if someone didn't get the job done, I let them go. The company I work for now lives in terror of being sued (they were successfully sued for discrimination 20 years ago) and it is almost impossible to fire someone. I had an employee that had 14 absences and was consistently late. He'd be written up, put on probation, and still kep missing work. At the meeting where he was to have been fired because he finally met the company criteria for termination, he told the HR rep that no one had ever clearly explained the attendance policy in the 10 years he'd worked for the company - despite the fact he'd signed paperwork saying he did numerous times, including the entire discplinary process.
The HR rep made us keep him, claiming that if he sued, he might convince a jury that he didn't understand the policy.
I later learned from one of my employees that she'd worked with him at two other companies, until he'd be fired for attendance problems.