The nerve of some people...?

[redfathom]

Hi Magnatolia,

 

I have done all of that. We met in July about her attendance. Her review is coming up next week and I plan on brining it up. When she missed three days last week and I asked my boss if I could request a dr's note per the policy and he said no that he did not want to threaten her but that in her review I could let her know that she would in future need to provide one.

 

Here is the kicker: She called out sick AGAIN today, this time is food poisining with aweful diarrea. Last week she missed three and a half days for the stomach flu she was vomiting.

 

She actually made a complaint about me giving her "the work I don't want to do" i.e. unimportant tasks. I explained that is what the job entails.

 

One of the employee asked where she was last week and I said sick and he said, really, she is probrably hung over and I jokingly said, oh, I am going to tell her you said that and he said, go ahead. So he must have been pretty serious about it. Maybe she is always out getting drunk.

 

Who knows! Maybe we will never know since my boss will not make her bring in a dr's note.

 

You would think she would bring in a sick note anyways since she probrably went to the dr's, but she doesn't go to the dr's. I mean I would if I was in her position.

[redfathom]

So I need to post on here again because I am pissed.

 

So my boss did not want to have her bring in a dr's note for the three days she missed last week because he did not want to "threaten" her. HR did not want to include issues about her attendance in her "bonus" review because he does not want it to be negative since it is a bonus review not a normal performance review. So I said, fine then let's write her up this week for her attedance and give her the bonus review seperate with no mention of attendance. So I e-mailed my boss about it and he said he will meet to discuss it with me, I will be so pissed if he does not want to write her up.

 

So I have already taken the time to documet her verbal warning. I gave it to HR to review first and he cut out about half of it, why...because he was not sure what I wrote was the tone in which this should be handled.

 

I mainly addressed facts, i.e. since being employed for eight months she has missed 216 hours of work, and that since being converted to an employee two months ago from a temp she has called out six times and gone home early once and taken time for dr's appt. And that this was a follow up to a face-to-face meeting about her attendance in June and that prior to June she averaged 20 hours a month that she was out and since then it's been 21 and that her attendance has not gotten better. He wants to change it to say from "two" to THREE absences in the next three months from "will" to MAY result in a written warning. And I added that three would be a 2nd warning and 4 would be a final with suspension and possible temination write up and he deleted all of that. So basically he only addressed if she missed three days in the next three months, that we MAY write her up.

 

And when I wrote that her I let her know in June that her attendance was unsatisfactory he changed it to, questionable.

 

I mean come one!!!!

 

How much will they let her get aweay with. She averages missing 20 hours a month so that means we can expect her to miss 60 more hours year.

 

AGGGGGGG!!!!!

[Art_Critic]

This is just an observation RF..

 

You spend wayyyyyyy too much time dealing with this person..

Why not just let her sink her own ship.. why do you feel you have to help her sink it ?

 

As a boss myself I would start to wonder about an employee that had a drive to make sure every single flaw of another was brought forward as to make sure they get fired.

I think you have brought this to light to the boss.. why not just let it go ?

 

I think you are hurting your own performance and also possibly showing your boss that you cannot lead, that you are drama driven and have somewhat become part of the problem as well...

 

The girl needs to be fired.. no doubt

But let your boss handle it.let him do his job... otherwise you will get splattered with shiot in the process.

 

Not meant to inflame..I'm trying to help in my own way, I felt that I needed to say what was on my mind as I watch as a fly on the wall :0

[Star Gazer]

This is just an observation RF..

 

You spend wayyyyyyy too much time dealing with this person..

Why not just let her sink her own ship.. why do you feel you have to help her sink it ?

 

As a boss myself I would start to wonder about an employee that had a drive to make sure every single flaw of another was brought forward as to make sure they get fired.

I think you have brought this to light to the boss.. why not just let it go ?

 

I think you are hurting your own performance and also possibly showing your boss that you cannot lead, that you are drama driven and have somewhat become part of the problem as well...

 

The girl needs to be fired.. no doubt

But let your boss handle it.let him do his job... otherwise you will get splattered with shiot in the process.

 

Not meant to inflame..I'm trying to help in my own way, I felt that I needed to say what was on my mind as I watch as a fly on the wall :0

 

I completely agree.

 

Unless your assistant is impeding YOUR ability to do YOUR job (which you have not commented on thus far), just let her dig her own hole.

[redfathom]

I am her supervisor, but I have throught about exactly what you said.

 

This will only be my second time bringing it up (this time being on going because of her review which I need to finish). I can lead, when I am give the reigns. My point with bringing it up is that it's an issue and one that has only once been addressed to her by me and since then it has not gotten better. If no one tells her that her attendance is unacceptable then it will never get better.

 

I mean am I not allowed to bring up her attendance issues when I am writing her review? That is what reviews are form, praise and goals (and one goal is to approve attendance). If I am accountable for her work performance and attendance and I feel she needs to be remrimaned (with only a verbal) so that her attendance will improve I don't see why he would object.

 

I do appreciate what you said, I HAVE thought about it many times and I am thinking about it today before I meet with him. So taking your advice I am making a recommendation to him that we give her a warning but I will not push the issue. If he say's no I will not argue, only pout! HAHA!!

 

Thanks Art!

[redfathom]

Star,

 

She does, she is my assistant and the receptionist so when she calls out I can't deligate tasks that I need to and I have to cover the front desk. So it does interfer with my job. Plus I think it's poor management not to mentioned it to her, especially when other people in the office have started making comments about her being absent so much.

[redfathom]

Update:

 

So my boss wrote her up yesterday. He had it come from him delivered by HR so that her and I can try to build our working relationship.

 

Today I needed some info from her and went to get it from one of the cost tracking spreadsheets and it has not been updated since August and she had added new info but did not format it, she just added the info to the bottow. Her words: "I have been bad about updating it, but what I have is recorded on the spreadsheet." Yes - you would be right, minus about two months of data. So to me her reponse was, "Yeah I know it's not updated, but you can have what info is on there" The proper response: "I am sorry I have neglected updating it, let me update it now and I will send it to you as soon as possible."

 

 

I sent her an e-mail asking her to update it, fix the formulas and make it consistant. Since I sent her the e-mail she has not replied back to me letting me know she was working on it or would. I just checked it and to her standards it is finished, at least she updated it. I sent her another e-mail asking her to organize it and format it so it's consistant. Plus the formula is wrong.

 

So she must be pissed off at me for asking her to fix it in the first place, because she has not said one word to me about it.

 

She always complains about not having work to do, but she slacks off on the things she does have to do.

 

Just venting.

 

I am glad my boss was understanding about the attendance. He was actually more then understanding, he was a little put off.