I've shared how I work with a broad group of characters when it comes to work ethic and the lack of nose to the grindstone.. This last week has been heating up to what could turn out to be a sweep of long overdue terminations. And Integrity is the weak link. The part timers can if they prove themselves trust worthy pick up extra hours above the 4-5 basic hours spread around amongst them. and yet.. of 8 fulltimers and 12 part timers who are porters and do janitorial work, we can be short handed to about 14 on any given day with the work load of 20 employees to cover.. some of the stories here are pretty consistent across the board so just imagine it with me..
Today was the surprise in that a kid who is very quiet, yet friendly, although not the sharpest tack in the drawer, had his ID removed from him and walked to the exit gate after an employee exit interview with security. As a porter he comes across alot of items that have broken open from their packaging, and yet he decided to take an expensive wallet trying to pass it off as his own when he left. Reason for termination, stealing from the company.
Another employee, no matter HOW MANY conversations about changing their behavior with a couple of free passes they have received in addition to all of the write ups, suspensions for his incessant "talking while on the clock", caught sleeping in the locker room when not on break, or he's just aimlessly walking around outside of their area daily. Their demeanor is they just don't get it even as they are a step from being terminated for this reason.. stealing from the company. Oh and they just graduated from an airplane mechanic school, please Lord not on an airline I or my loved ones are flying on.
Now the best story of all is a particular person who has been the best at using the union system of stretching benefits to the max. When there is one sick day to be needed, will stretch it out to 14 because one day off is the same # of occasions (1) marked against you... they use option days, vacation days, etc., until they just run out and then the time they take off becomes more extended as they don't get paid, but most are on so many gov't programs due to low income. Now they know they have eventually to get to a place where when they get close to 8 occasions they have to go clean cold turkey for 7 months without an occasion... strange system but they know how to milk it, claim FMLA, or disability for a stretch of time... Oh, so now back to the opening sentence of this paragraph example. This person has been "leaving" the property and returning with food for another specific employee they are dating. Well issue at hand is that they were seen in parking lot by the manager and he checked the security tapes for time left and returned and it was longer than they are allowed for a lunch break and it was a time frame different than they had written on there timecard. Most likely outcome waiting for them, as they nervously know he's got something on her.... is termination and being walked out the door to the exit gate for stealing from the company. whew, long time coming..
It's a confusing trail trying to keep up with it everyday.. but I sense that either NOW that a sweep is taking place of employees, either the rest will shape up as they are close to same occurence. Or it will continue and after 14 months of being in this position, accountability has come to lack of stringing out the occasions with a blind eye that occurred with a prior supervisor on duty.. He's no longer in our facility.
Off to bed so that I can face this another day!
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