Good on ya for firing her. I wish I had that sort of ability. I mean, I am in the position to fire people, it’s just not that easy in this country.
Case in point. I have a team of 5 people under me, who service my clients. A few weeks ago, one of our clients is visiting to attend a seminar I’m organising. The guy is early, and wants to meet up with my staff. No problem, but I tell him I don’t have time to hang with him, what with me setting up the seminar’s last details et cetera. He’s cool with that, and hangs around with my team.
Later that night, as the seminar is over, my boss approaches me and says, “You won’t believe what Jack did”. (Name fictional)
Turns out the client was curious about how important his business was to us, and started asking some questions. Fair enough. FWIW, they’re like our 4th biggest client, and I like them quite a bit. We make a decent sum of money off them (6 figures a year) and are all around nice guys.
What does Jack do? Instead of saying “you’re quite important to us and we really appreciate your business”, he opens up an internal spreadsheet detailling the 2004 revenues, per client, including kick back percentages. And proceeds to flip his monitor around so my client can see. :eek:
So, not only does my client now know there’s at least 3 companies more important to me, he also knows that some even smaller clients get a higher kickback.
Thanks, Jack. Ass.
If we had been in America, Jack’s ass would have been on the fucking street. Alas, this is Holland, and firing someone with a 30 year history in this company would cost us at least 2 years full wages. In other words, not fucking worth is.
You Yankees think you have a lot of incompetence in the work force? I invite you on a 2 month internship in a Dutch company, and then state that opinion again.
Still, I fully understand Maureen’s frustration, and applaud her for firing the person.