problem with an employee

[cornbread]

A few years ago when there were plenty of good paying jobs for everyone, I would've said to give him another chance, but in this day in time, there are plenty of people looking for jobs that would actually show up when they're scheduled. There's a reason why he's working the job he is, and that is because noone else wants to keep an unreliable person. He'll eventually get fired from there, and every other job he tries to work until he either a) sobers up, b) quits working altogether and becomes a bum, or c) goes to prison or dies.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: yllus
Fire immediately. If he's old enough to drink, he's old enough to stop fscking his life up on his own.

Spoken like a child who has never even managed anything as challenging as a lemonade stand. In the real world, places like fast food restaurants have a VERY hard time getting even remotely competent part time employees. Minimum wage jobs are a dime a dozen and finding people to fill them is tough. The sad truth is that if you've got a guy who is a good worker 3 days a week and blows off his 4th day it's very hard to fire him. You've got to bend over backwards to keep guys like that because they're actually more valuable than guys who show up every day and half-ass it every day.

I'd take a different tack with this guy. Rather than firing or cutting pay and hours, if he really is a good worker try motivating him to cover his shifts. Schedule him more days, but shorter hours. If he works every shift in a week pay him a couple of hours bonus.

The $64,000 question is: If you fire him today will the guy you hire tomorrow to take his place be better or worse overall? The answer to that question provides the answer on what to do with him.

Cry me a river, old man. :roll: I've years in the "real world" of retail and there is always, always someone ready and willing to take up the slack of a minimum wage job to make ends meet. The real sad truth is people like you enable people to half-ass their effort to even get to work. America thanks you!

ROFLMAO! If you think there are lines of people ready and willing to take up the slack in a minimum wage job you have not been anywhere near the "Real world of retail". For minimum wage you're lucky to get a pulse, competence costs extra. Getting somebody to give enough of a damn that they use more than the least possible effort costs lots extra. The real truth for those of us in the real world is that there are more minimum wage jobs than there are people to fill them. Anyone that gets fired from one can have a dozen more inside an hour. A business has a much harder time replacing even a nominally qualified worker. THAT is the "Real world of retail"

One of my current jobs is at a fast food place. We get at least 1 new application a week for various positions. And this isn't even in a high density population area.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: z0mb13
...
just curious, where do you live?

here in CA there are tons of workers available.. mainly from mexican immigrants

How do mexican immigrants supply workers? By having babies?
😕

tons of them migrate from mexico of course... so we have a lot of workers for menial jobs (working at mcdonalds, jack in the box, etc)

 

[Raincity]

Your a manager, deal with it

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: moshquerade

you have to put your compassion aside and fire this guy. he'll never learn if he keeps getting chances upon chances to be irresponsible and get away with it.

Wrong answer. You need to think like a manager, not a social worker and not a mommy. OP's responsibility is to the restaurant, not towards the worker to help him fix his life. It's his job to run his shop as well as possible, not to get employees to "learn" their lessons. Try staffing at minimum wage, I guarantee you would not be so quick to fire people. What, you think the world is full of people just dying to bust their ass flipping burgers for $5.15 an hour? A worker who shows up 90% of the time and works to the best of his ability during that time is in the top 10% of workers available for that kind of job.

depends on where he lives. college/high school kids looking for a job doing fast food can sometimes be an easy option.

sounds like the guy might be an alcoholic. so he's probably showing up to work drunk, and soon he'll do something to endanger himself or others.

fire his ass.

 

[Ricemarine]

I say fire him...
He doesn't show up for his job = he doesn't work hard enough for his spot in the restaurant.

 

[masterxfob]

update 🙂

 

[olds]

It's hard to believe that a business would just throw you into something without any training. But then it is the fast food business.
Good luck with it.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
It's hard to believe that a business would just throw you into something without any training. But then it is the fast food business.
Good luck with it.

Possibly a franchise?

I doubt it's corporate, as there are some pretty strict guildelines setup for hiring and training managers.