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Why The Guilt?
Broken much?
I’m a Manager with a small team of three employees, that I supervise in an office environment.
One employee, is every Manager’s dream and has been with the Company for ten years now. I’ve only been employed with this Company for five years, so he’s been there twice as long. He does as he’s asked, he shows initiative, very accurate and enjoys his work. In the five years that I have worked with him, he has taken three hours sick leave and only because I told him to go home. Reliability is his middle name.
The second employee has been with the Company for almost three years. I was responsible for interviewing her and hiring her. She is what I would call a ‘normal’ employee. As in that she has her personal life overlap her work life at times, as we all do, and we need to juggle things to suit but all in all, the bulk of the time she is reasonable to manage.
Then we have the third employee and unfortunately she is extremely hard work. I have two issues working against me when it comes to this employee and how I handle her. Firstly, she has been with the Company for nine years and I inherited her. Secondly, she is a long term friend of my Supervisor. Long term as in thirty or more years. It is due to this reason alone that she was hired and is still employed.
