reporting ex worker

capeverde

J.E.J. Thank you for your kind words, however dont forget the vast majority of people who start their own companies actually fail. The next step up is to just about scrape by. Only a small amount of people actually attain the lifestyle they set out to achieve.

Just an update, I actually contacted the person who runs the scheme this guy was originally on. Further to this my ex worker actually came to my factory today and had a chat with me. It turns out his partner made him quit because it was effecting her claims. I explained a few home truths to him and told him to go and have a serious think about things. Ive left the door open that if he contacts me next week I will give him another start a week on Monday. Apparently he has debts as well and Ive told him to speak to everyone involved and come up with a solution and not to let things build up. Think Ive been more than fair here.

scooby088

capeverde wrote: »

J.E.J. Thank you for your kind words, however dont forget the vast majority of people who start their own companies actually fail. The next step up is to just about scrape by. Only a small amount of people actually attain the lifestyle they set out to achieve.

Just an update, I actually contacted the person who runs the scheme this guy was originally on. Further to this my ex worker actually came to my factory today and had a chat with me. It turns out his partner made him quit because it was effecting her claims. I explained a few home truths to him and told him to go and have a serious think about things. Ive left the door open that if he contacts me next week I will give him another start a week on Monday. Apparently he has debts as well and Ive told him to speak to everyone involved and come up with a solution and not to let things build up. Think Ive been more than fair here.

Now you are an understanding employer wish some people on here were just as understanding as you.

capeverde

Just as an update, after a couple of meetings Ive helped him with a plan to get financially straight and have taken him back on. He will start back a week tomorrow.

heretolearn_2

I think some people are keen to work, proud to earn their own living, and make good employees.
Some people are lazy and resent having to go to work, think the world owes them a living, and will do the bare minimum they can while leaving their colleagues to pick up the slack for them.

In my experience how much they earn has absolutely no effect on anyone's attitude to work. You can pay a grafter minimum wage and they'll work their guts out. You can pay a lazy sod a bloody good salary and they'll spend all day surfing the internet.

In fact we often find it's that way round. People who come in here at an entry level on a lower wage tend to be very dedicated, work hard, get along with everyone, want to improve their lives and prospects, want to learn, and we are happy to train them up, give them wage rises, and promote them. One of our current heads of department started with us as a minimum wage temp.

We've sacked quite a few lazy sods who came straight in at management level with great CVs, loads of experience/qualifications, who we were paying good money to. Earning more than both of us, the company owners, in fact. Only to find their plan was to sit and do sod all most of the time.

heretolearn_2

Some people are also deluded.

I used to know a woman who did genuinely want to work, I believe. But she never held a job for more than a couple of months before she was sacked. Quite often sacked in a few days/weeks. And boy did she complain and moan about it. The employers were always totally unreasonable in her eyes. But she deserved it every time - she was so unreliable, she would turn up late, she would not turn up at all because of numerous self-inflicted drama queen emergencies, she would be off 'sick' half the time.

I met her for lunch once and had to leave to get back to work. 'Oh no, stay,' she said, 'it won't matter, take a couple of hours today. Blimey, they must be awful if you'd get in trouble over that'. And she really really pressured me to take a 2 hour lunchbreak. Which I didn't, of course, not because I was afraid of my employer but because it's a stupid and irresponsible way to behave. But perfectly reasonable in her eyes...

Some people are not employable.

Caroline_a

I agree. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who think that someone else should pay for their kids/housing/loans and also take the blame for anything else that goes wrong in their life.

Whatever happened to taking responsibility for yourself? I see a lot of people saying there are no jobs for older people. I've just got a new job (following redundancy a week ago) and I'm only a couple of years off 60! It's about attitude, the ghastly American 'can-do' phrase covers it, but it's about not being afraid to roll your sleeves up and do whatever the job needs, not just what is on your job description, or rather what you think your job description should say!

I've seen many young people turn their nose up at entry level jobs (I used to train/mentor the 16-18 age group) because they thought they were better than that... unfortunately if you have no experience you aren't better than anything!