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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Yes, I've said mean things about her since she left. I'm pissed at her. We gave her extra sick leave last fall, extra snow days off because she can't drive worth a crap, bent over backwards to help her get back on track after she fell off the rails last fall. She lied to us, stole company property, and we found out from the IMs on her phone that when she was "sick" in November (and we were paying her) she was actually out of town with her boyfriend. I have no reason to respect her anymore.
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I had a staff member. She was better than average, solid worker but not a superstar. When she started with the company she had been promised a nice compensation package by the consultant who introduced her to the company even though he had no authority to do so.
She took the job at a lower compensation but it was a thorn in her side.
After I took over the group I promoted her twice. I got her a 45% pay increase in one shot and the max in other years. She had a medical condition that kept her from carrying to term unless she was on bed rest. The 1st kid was a financial burden for her so with the second kid I did not let her go on disability, I got her a laptop and we couriered work back and forth to her while she was out. She came back after kid 2 and had sever separation anxiety and sat at her desk for months randomly crying. Kid 3 I again kept her off disability, expensed a cable modem to be dropped at her house and opened my firewall for direct access to the servers and printers in the studio. When she came back, to avoid the separation anxiety thing again I let her come in one day a week for 2 weeks, then 2 days a week for a couple of week, etc.... until she was back full time. That also extended her maternity leave time significantly.
My group absorbed another group from within the company. One of the guys I inherited wanted my job so he convinced this girl that I had not given her the promotion she wanted because she was a woman and that she should file a discrimination complaint with HR which was stupid as that particular studio was predominantly woman, I tended to hire woman vs men at a rate of 2-1. All my top management were woman that I had promoted into their positions.
Naturally HR called BS, called the lawyers and circled the wagons.
During the next lay off HR took care of both of those problems for me.
I was speaking to the consultant who originally introduced her and she came up. He laughed, he said she was using him as a reference and he'd cost her 3 gigs already "because of what she tried to do to you".
I asked him to not do that going forward, told him yeah she's not terribly bright but she deserves a chance to earn a living.
You don't have to and should not respect her but put it behind you.
Just be happy she is no longer your problem.
Move on.
Enjoy life.