[AFMUG] OT Problem employees

2024-09-14 Thread chuck
I many years ago I went to a skilpath seminar on what to do with problem employees. After two days the bottom line was that you probably will not change them, learn to live with them or fire them. So for a number of years I gave them gentle performance reviews, some respectful feedback and t

Re: [AFMUG] OT Problem employees

2024-09-14 Thread Dan P via AF
I finally got an HR person that does all the write ups / firings and it has been the best thing ever. We starting an attendance point system recently as man its getting old keeping reliable people here. There isn’t a firing I have regretted, usually the opposite pops up, we realize it shoul

Re: [AFMUG] OT Problem employees

2024-09-14 Thread chuck
I guess I just got old enough and cranky enough to just get it off my chest and move on. Never a good thing to try to be friends with employees. Some distance is useful. Yeah, having an HR person is very nice. I had a good one back when I had 100 employees. My latest incarnation is a bit

Re: [AFMUG] OT Problem employees

2024-09-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
Maybe you're their second job.Like the girlfriend who suddenly realizes SHE'S the side chick. Original Message From: chuck@go-mtc.comSent: 9/14/2024 4:06:37 PMTo: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Problem employees I guess I just got old enough and cranky

Re: [AFMUG] OT Problem employees

2024-09-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
On the topic of part timers:https://www.gocomics.com/fminus/2024/09/05 Original Message From: "Ken Hohhof" Sent: 9/14/2024 5:09:07 PMTo: af@af.afmug.comSubject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Problem employeesMaybe you're their second job.Like the girlfriend who suddenly realizes SHE'S the side chick.-

Re: [AFMUG] Email Servers

2024-09-14 Thread Mike Hammett
Zimbra started crapping all over the open source community, so one of hte add-on vendors (ZExtras) forked it before they fucked it up and are now running with a "new" system, Carbonio. Also, yeah, my 365 gets blacklisted several times a year, more than all of my other email servers combin