Posted: 10/1/2014 9:48:14 PM EDT
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Hire a person to fill a open position in the kitchen. Resume looks good interview went well and was a culinary school grad. I had some reservations about her ability to perform the work and she assured me she could handle it. Employee was in her early thirties and had been unemployed for the past 4 months.
I offer the young lady a trainee position and worked with her for the past week. I quickly noticed she was unable to perform the work and needed constant supervision and worked at a rather leisurely pace. She would also leave (to smoke a cigarette) and return 10 minutes later visually inebriated to the point other employees brought it to my attention. I let the employee go today with full pay for all days worked. I didn't bring up the suspected drug/alcohol abuse just that I was concerned she wouldn't be able to perform the duties associated with the position. A few hours later I get a call from her father (lives out of state) berating me and the business for firing his daughter and threatening with legal action. Is this the new world we live in? You are in your thirties why is daddy calling and what good do you think will come of it... 
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I was joking the drug abuse would have been such an issue if it was one of the drugs that made ya get your work done quickly. Im talking nodding out wobbly on the feet shit, don't know if it was pills, alcohol, or... Slip her some blow to counter the booze. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I can't even tell you how many calls I have taken like that as an employer. One employees mom called me to complain about her daughters pay. She refused to identify her daughter and demanded to be referred to as Mizz Ritchie. She spent10 minutes educating me on the finer points of "payroll law" and how she had done payroll for hundreds of companies before I laughed, gave her the number to the Department of Labor, told her I couldn't help her if I didn't know who her daughter was (not to mention the fact that I couldn't even discuss it with her due to privacy issues) and hung up. I took a quick look through the files and found a Mizz Ritchie in the emergency contact info of an employee, called her back to let her know I knew who her daughter was, was waiting to hear back from the DOL and would personally discuss with her daughter. Not one incorrect paycheck ever and her daughter cried because she didn't like being confronted.  Facebook search revealed the mother had been a single mom/hair dresser all of her life.
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