I feel terrible....

[disneyquestions]

I feel so bad. I think I got someone fired today at my work. He picks up paperwork for us every day, and for some time now, has been giving everyone (me and my boss, but mostly me) an additude, and hasn't been getting the reports on time, hence making us (myself and the other girls in the office) stay very late on many occasions.

Hes a little slow mentally, and I think he gets frustrated easily with his job when things don't go well, or someone asks him to do something differently. His scanner / internet connection hasn't been working right (hes in a different part of the state, so he scans and emails everything to us), so I've been asking him to change things up a lot, and I think thats really upset him, and caused him to feel the need to spite me (the entire office). So today was his day to get back so to speak. He tells me that he spent 45 minutes in one town trying to send something to us. Now this wouldn't have been to big of a deal if #1 he hadn't been telling us since he first started here that he won't send paperwork from that town because his brother was murdered there (long story), and hes scared to spend any time in the town, and #2 because he says that the internet connection doesn't work from this perticular town. So knowing those two things, I asked him "So why did you waist 45 minutes there?" His responce was "Because you said I'm a wacko for saying I can't send from that town, so I wanted to prove to you I'm not." Of course I've never said anything like that to him, and when I told my boss, she said that she told him she found it hard to believe that in the entire HUGE (its a huge city really) town was non-internet accesable.

So anyway, there have been so many other things that have been going on in the past few weeks with this guy, but I just feel bad. Before me, he delt with another person in the office, and never had these issues - I think he just doesn't like me, and thats why hes acting like this. I mean, thats no excuse, hes a grown adult with grown kids, but still, I feel bad. When I ask him questions about things (don't want to go into pages of details...) he gets upset like I'm acusing him of something, and I'm really not. Like one day I knew he had two things to send us, and he said "I'm sending it now" so I said, "Ok, both of them?" and his reposince was "Boy, you sure are a pushy THING." I mean, I just need to know what I'm looking for since the internet connection had been sketchy.

Anyway, thanks for listening, had to get this off my chest.

 

[mamacatnv]

YOU didn't get him fired he did that to himself

 

[DawnCt1]

It is sad when you can't save someone from themselves. He does sound like he has some limitations.

 

[quentina]

As an HR manager, I fire people.....lots of people. The one thing I tell my self every day....I did not do this, they did, I am just telling them the words.

Accountability is critical. As an employee, you are obligated to report when things are not going the way they should be (I say this to my associates often).

Keep your chin up!

However; if there is a documented disability and he was hired with a modification, he will probably not get fired....keep us updated.

 

[cm8]

As an HR manager, I fire people.....lots of people. The one thing I tell my self every day....I did not do this, they did, I am just telling them the words.

Accountability is critical. As an employee, you are obligated to report when things are not going the way they should be (I say this to my associates often).

Keep your chin up!

However; if there is a documented disability and he was hired with a modification, he will probably not get fired....keep us updated.

 

[disneyquestions]

As an HR manager, I fire people.....lots of people. The one thing I tell my self every day....I did not do this, they did, I am just telling them the words.

Accountability is critical. As an employee, you are obligated to report when things are not going the way they should be (I say this to my associates often).

Keep your chin up!

However; if there is a documented disability and he was hired with a modification, he will probably not get fired....keep us updated.

The guy was hired before me, and hes based a good distance away from me (about an hours drive on toll roads), so I don't know anything about his paperwork, or if his disability was documented. And in all truth, we don't know for a fact that hes mentally handicap (slow), but to talk to him, its the impression everyone has gotten. My office has only met him once face to face, and that was at last years Christmas party. It was after I left, but another co-worker said that he drank so much that he fell off a chair, so really, maybe hes not handicap at all, maybe hes a drinker. If thats the case, then I don't feel bad at all... but since his job is driving around all day, I REALLY hope thats NOT the case!

Before we left (late again because hes not getting our work to us on time) tonight, the owners were talking, and one said "I don't want to ruin his weekend." so that gives me the impression that they are going to let him go. I don't know who they are going to get to replace him - its not a good job! Hes driving in stop and go traffic all day long, in his own car, and (as far as I know) paying for his own gas. By the end of the year, I wouldn't doubt that hes losing money! All the ware and tare on his car, and the gas prices.... crazy.

Just upsetting.... I was talking to a co-worker, and she said that the one thing the hiring owner had said (there are two owners, one in my office, one in the other office) that he really liked this guy, and no matter what would never let him go. That if he was unable to do this job, he would find something else for him. Of course this was before he started acting this way. Even the other owner said that he was acting "childish." So we were thinking that this is what may happen, which would be find with us. He would still have a job, and I wouldn't have to be at work late 3 out of 5 days a week because of him. I guess I won't know anything till tomorrow, and maybe not even till Monday... I don't want anyone to lose their job in this economy....

 

[goofy!]

The guy was hired before me, and hes based a good distance away from me (about an hours drive on toll roads), so I don't know anything about his paperwork, or if his disability was documented. And in all truth, we don't know for a fact that hes mentally handicap (slow), but to talk to him, its the impression everyone has gotten. My office has only met him once face to face, and that was at last years Christmas party. It was after I left, but another co-worker said that he drank so much that he fell off a chair, so really, maybe hes not handicap at all, maybe hes a drinker. If thats the case, then I don't feel bad at all... but since his job is driving around all day, I REALLY hope thats NOT the case!

Before we left (late again because hes not getting our work to us on time) tonight, the owners were talking, and one said "I don't want to ruin his weekend." so that gives me the impression that they are going to let him go. I don't know who they are going to get to replace him - its not a good job! Hes driving in stop and go traffic all day long, in his own car, and (as far as I know) paying for his own gas. By the end of the year, I wouldn't doubt that hes losing money! All the ware and tare on his car, and the gas prices.... crazy.

Just upsetting.... I was talking to a co-worker, and she said that the one thing the hiring owner had said (there are two owners, one in my office, one in the other office) that he really liked this guy, and no matter what would never let him go. That if he was unable to do this job, he would find something else for him. Of course this was before he started acting this way. Even the other owner said that he was acting "childish." So we were thinking that this is what may happen, which would be find with us. He would still have a job, and I wouldn't have to be at work late 3 out of 5 days a week because of him. I guess I won't know anything till tomorrow, and maybe not even till Monday... I don't want anyone to lose their job in this economy....

I smell a troll.

First the woman in the liquor store with the kids is a drunk and now your co-worker.

 

[manning]

Disneyquestions--- Have you discovered spell check yet?

 

[tar heel]

I don't know if spell check would catch "ware and tare" and it's no help at all with apostrophes!

 

[ArthurIhde]

lol what's up

 

[disneyquestions]

I smell a troll.

First the woman in the liquor store with the kids is a drunk and now your co-worker.

Oh goodness, really? Not at all. As I said in that past thread, I have no problem with adults drinking. I have no problem with adults drinking in front of their kids (in moderation of course). I do however have a bit of an issue with parents taking kids into a liquor store. I don't even really know why it bothers me... we've never had any drinking problems in my family. Just doesn't seem kosher to me for whatever reason. Don't really see what that has to do with this thread.

And sorry, I got home very late from work last night, was rather tired, and forgot to spell check. Didn't know there were spelling nazis on the board....

 

[goofy!]

Oh goodness, really? Not at all. As I said in that past thread, I have no problem with adults drinking. I have no problem with adults drinking in front of their kids (in moderation of course). I do however have a bit of an issue with parents taking kids into a liquor store. I don't even really know why it bothers me... we've never had any drinking problems in my family. Just doesn't seem kosher to me for whatever reason. Don't really see what that has to do with this thread.

And sorry, I got home very late from work last night, was rather tired, and forgot to spell check. Didn't know there were spelling nazis on the board....

As a parent with an adult "mentally slow" child in the workforce, it is incomprehensible to me that somebody could even mistake a cognitive disability with being a drunk. Let me guarantee you, they are different.

The posts have to do with each other because when you don't like behavior, you seem to immediately accuse somebody of being a drunk.

Take kids into a liquor store and pay with a pre-written check and talk to the clerk, you are too familiar with the store, so a drunk.

Can't do their work, seems mentally slow, they are a drunk.

 

[disneyquestions]

As a parent with an adult "mentally slow" child in the workforce, it is incomprehensible to me that somebody could even mistake a cognitive disability with being a drunk. Let me guarantee you, they are different.

The posts have to do with each other because when you don't like behavior, you seem to immediately accuse somebody of being a drunk.

Take kids into a liquor store and pay with a pre-written check and talk to the clerk, you are too familiar with the store, so a drunk.

Can't do their work, seems mentally slow, they are a drunk.

I guess I can see where you are coming from with the two posts, and I might think the same, but I swear, they have nothing in common. I guess I'm in the minority for not wanting to take children into a liquor store, but thats just how I feel. However, there are states where it is illegal for anyone under 21 to enter a liquor store, even with a parent, so obviously I'm not alone in my feelings.