We recently found out one of our employees have been coming in late... but is always clocked in 10-15 minutes before her start time. So this past weekend I've been tasked at finding out how - Long story short... Her and another employees time cards match every single day, down to the minute... even though one shows up 15 minutes later, I checked our outdoor cameras everyday for the past 2 weeks to see when the employee has been ariving, and every day it's 5 or so minutes late... but everyday, she's clocked in before the start time. So I had to pull a few months worth of time cards,and sure enough... These 2 employees match their clock in 95 out of 100 clock ins. (I hate time cards, but we have about 25 employees... 5 of whom work slightly odd hours due to life circumstances, So its the only way to get accurate hours for the people who work 5 hours one day, 6 the next, 6 and a half the next, etc).
Now we have the 1 employee on Camera being late, but being clocked in early... so she's 100% fired. We don't have Cameras by the time clocks, just at the doors because theyre meant to be security cameras...so we dont have definitive proof on the person clocking her in, but it's pretty obvious - Not sure she will be getting fired since we can't prove it.... These are employees we've had for 25 years, long before my time - But they know theres zero tolerance for clocking someone in... I have no idea how long it's been going on... Could be weeks/months of stolen time.... The owner is rightfully pissed and wanted to fire them the moment he found out on Friday, but I made him mull it over on the weekend, and said right now it's just a suspicion (Employee #2 was seeing showing up 5 minutes late, yet clocked in 15 mins early), and even though I'm 99% sure its whats going on, we should have proof before terminating someone, especially before X-mas... So now I have a meeting for later today with all the evidence to determine when, how, and whether its going to be 1, or 2 of them being let go... People who've been here forever, who know the business in and out... one of our only screenprinters, 25 years of knowledge lost.... We're a very lenient company, I have 2 employees who show up 10 minutes late everyday, They dont get paid for those 10 minutes... but they talked to us about it, and we told them it was fine to be late since we know the situation, but they would have to work 10 mins through lunch, 10 mins at the end of the day, or not get paid for those 10 minutes to make it fair for everyone. Now we're going to a badge / photo time clock instead of
paper one to prevent it from happening again as well... I don't think anyone else would do it, but I never would have thought these 2 would do it either.
First people fired from this company in the 10+ years I've been here.... It sucks firing people you've known for 10 years! My last job at a non printing company, I've had to fire people for refusing to do work... getting into fights... doing donuts on forklifts / smashing into racks, etc.... But nothing like this. Todays going to be a shitty day!
So... Whats youre "I didn't want to, but had to" fire people moment?
