We instruct her to do something, she’d just stare at us blankly. We ask if she understood our instructions, she’d just give that slight nod. Then she goes to someone else and asks that someone what our instruction was all about. That someone wasn’t even around when we gave the instruction earlier.
We tell her to mail document 1 to client A and then call client B to collect document 2, she’d mail both documents to client A. Client A ended up sending a letter asking why we gave them some document belonging to another client.
We tell her to submit some urgent documents in the afternoon, she’d delay it to the next morning because it’s too hot in the afternoon.
We teach her how to do some routine work today, and we have to repeat the same instruction every day to get her to do the job.
We just employed her for a few months, and yet she has already taken up too many days of medical leave.
Just to be sure, we asked the other staff if she had been able to help reduce their workload especially the routine work which doesn’t really require much thinking – they are the ones who had more direct dealings with her. Apparently, they too had given up on her but they didn’t dare say anything to any of their 2 bosses.
So yeah, today I had to terminate the services of one of my office staff. It’s something I hate to do especially when I know jobs are hard to come by, but I’ve just got to do what I’ve got to do. No point keeping someone who doesn’t seem to appreciate the job she has when there are so many out there looking for jobs.
A new staff will be joining us this coming Monday.
We tell her to mail document 1 to client A and then call client B to collect document 2, she’d mail both documents to client A. Client A ended up sending a letter asking why we gave them some document belonging to another client.
We tell her to submit some urgent documents in the afternoon, she’d delay it to the next morning because it’s too hot in the afternoon.
We teach her how to do some routine work today, and we have to repeat the same instruction every day to get her to do the job.
We just employed her for a few months, and yet she has already taken up too many days of medical leave.
Just to be sure, we asked the other staff if she had been able to help reduce their workload especially the routine work which doesn’t really require much thinking – they are the ones who had more direct dealings with her. Apparently, they too had given up on her but they didn’t dare say anything to any of their 2 bosses.
So yeah, today I had to terminate the services of one of my office staff. It’s something I hate to do especially when I know jobs are hard to come by, but I’ve just got to do what I’ve got to do. No point keeping someone who doesn’t seem to appreciate the job she has when there are so many out there looking for jobs.
A new staff will be joining us this coming Monday.
