More fun with employees

[binki]

With the long thread going on with employees, I have a short story that I was reminded of by that thread that always makes me chuckle.
When we had employees, sometimes our customers would refer someone, sometimes a family member. One of those was a daughter of one of our customers. She was 16 so she needed a work permit and had restrictions on work hours during school. I interviewed her, no experience. I showed her what she would be doing and she said it was no problem. Fine with me as all of our employees had no experience when we hired them.

So I come in the next day later in the afternoon and she has already started her shift. She is in the back masking cut vinyl for a few yard signs we were doing. But the way she was dressed was the kicker as she didn't look anything like when I hired her. Think a young Kelly Bundy. Micro skirt, halter top, platform shoes, bleached out hair and chewing gum. I walk up front and ask "When did we hire Kelly Bundy?"

And yes, I had to fire her for not showing up for shifts she picked to work. No call, no nothing.

pic for reference of the era.

 

[Vassago]

And you fired her? Lol

Used to love Married with Children..

Unfortunately these days the fictional low level of intelligence is actually real..

 

[MikePro]

you fired Miss Weenie Tot?!?

 

[Vassago]

you fired Miss Weenie Tot?!?

I know... Sacrilege.. Lol

These days - Kelly would be top of the class (UK).

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

The title is fun with employees and the subject is mini skirt girl. From what I learned on the other thread, someones getting fired

 

[TheAngryCanadian]

A friend on mine ( shop owner ) usual story, hired a kid . great for a few weeks then ultimately had to fire them. The PARENTS call !! Parents call to complain, Mom just goes off and after 20 min of her screaming he has enough and hangs up. An hour later MOM comes into his shop to continue her ranting and raving. It is a great campfire story now but so much drama

 

[MikePro]

figured worth a share here, since its not the WORST employee we've let go, and i'm not a fan of sharing details of HR issues that could come back to slap my hand:

we had a friend of the family section8'd out of the military, tried to help him out but the kid was a slump. not knocking him personally, just soft hands and super timid.
literally had to point where to sweep, walk him to every garbage can that needed emptying, hassle him about multiple extended bathroom breaks during the day, yuck.

longstory short, we let him go amicably.
no issues since with him or his family, but we just have plenty of apprentices learning the sheetmetal worker trade that can cover the odds/ends at the end of every day.
a month later, he's back ....doing cash side jobs with his grandfather to mow the lawn and help us build misc things around the shop like offices/tables in our recently expanded building.
probably the best eavesdropping, hearing his grandfather curse him out "stoooopid" "whaddafaq" and making him hustle.
all of our fabricators would laugh hysterically when he was finally done for the day and out the door.

totally worth the couple extra bucks out of the petty cash drawer and hopefully he learned somehthing along the way.