I feel like such a mean person. At work, I have a helper! She came to me from the Layne AZ office and has been good so far, but I haven't been able to keep her busy for 40 hours a week. Sadly I was given a deadline to decide what to do with her. I had the hardest time choosing.
How can someone decide what to do about another persons lifestyle....I asked other people for their opinion, I checked what benefits she'd still be eligible for between 20 and 30 hours, if they differed much.
Eventually I decided...her hours have been cut in half. I couldn't justify to myself having the company cover 2 full time office gals. Let alone keep the new gal busy when she lacks the initiative to ask if there is anything else she can do when she's done with what work I've given her.
Luckily, she still gets holidays, vacation, sick days and best of all she keeps her insurance! Which I worried most about as she is engaged and is the only one with insurance.
What's worse, I couldn't feel right about pawning off delivering the bad news onto my boss. Just didn't seem right, having my boss tell the person under me that her hours are being cut. Oh well, I'd better get used to it though if the office is expected to continue to grow as we all are hoping it is.
Still I feel like such a monster.
7 years ago
6 comments:
Yuck, that's a hard one.
no way could you ever be mean!
I truly feel like I'm a mean one because I've got 2 gals that want to work in the office full time and I can't even keep the 1 current gal full time. Dang this boss-like decisions
Darn, it truly is tough being in charge but I'm sure you handled it very diplomatically.
Stop worring about work. For one you are not a mean person, second all you can do is all you can do... Keep smiling and come up and see us.
Oh to visit the lovely Jared, Kayleen & Kinley family would be great, if only I new the location.
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