You did your best...you can live with that...you are a good man. On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, 2:25 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> Had to fire a guy today. He had a checkered past. Drugs, prison etc. > I gave him a shot, lots of training, (at least now he can have a career, > he was doing asbestos removal when I hired him). > > Seems that he shoplifted at one of our favorite supply houses. > They had eyes on him when he went in, security footage of him standing by > a rack of stuff and when he turned away things were gone. > The front of his coat was bulging when he left. > He visited the john, after he left they went in there and found some tags > etc etc etc. > I told them I would pay for the stuff. They sent me an itemized bill with > the exact stuff he took. > > Of course he wasn’t there, didn’t do it, didn’t steal, thought about > stealing this stuff but didn’t do it. > Wrongly accused, can he talk to the vendor etc etc. > I first found out when the vendor called me and told me he is permanently > banned from their place. > > He was a parolee. We even removed a bullet from his back that the cops > had put there. > It was bothering him and he could not get anyone to cut it out. He didn’t > want to spend the money to do it right. > So one evening after work he was complaining about it to the crew. > My son the mechanic scrubbed up, got out the betadyne, scalpel, forceps > and out it came. > (howz that for a company health plan). > > I have hired a bunch of guys like him over the years. It rarely works > out. I have written letters to judges, hired lawyers, got sentences > reduced, got people sprung from jail. > Very few figure out how to leverage the chances I have given. > > Sucks losing the training time I have invested... > Sucks losing an employee that knows how to do some valuable things. > Sucks seeing humans continue to screw up their lives. > > About 20 years ago I was complaining about this same thing to someone. > I told him I was not going to do this anymore. > He said: “yes, you will keep doing it”. Nope, done. > I guess he was right, I kept doing it. I will probably do it again. I > think I am an idiot sometimes. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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