Technically, in the last week. Since it’s only Tuesday, I’ll go back to Thursday:
Driver X: ** This fella had his third accident in a 24 month period on Tuesday. We did our ARB (accident review board), I determined this was also a preventable accident, and he got the letter Thursday morning. No one’s ever been hurt by him, but the mailboxes in my town are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
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Bus Monitor Y: Had the most minor of disagreements with a parent on her bus Friday. Parent called me to mention the incident and even apologized for her end of the disagreement. I talk to Monitor Y that afternoon, in a nice, non-confrontational way, with her union steward present. All seemed nice, everyone settled down. Except that after leaving here at the end of the day, she got in her car, knocked on the parent’s door and stood there yelling and swearing until the police came to take her away.
**Bus Monitor Z: ** Got called into my office week before last because she was just not able to cut it. Her union steward asked if he could take her on his bus and work with her for a week. Keep in mind that aside from the responsibility of handling special needs kids, that being a bus monitor is slightly less challenging intellectually than “would you like that Super-Sized?”. She has not shown for work the past 3 days, calling in sick. Me, my suspicious mind and the little mouse on my shoulder all agree it’s time to call her PREVIOUS employer, a Large, Well-Known Bus Company. Guess who started her old job there yesterday?
I don’t normally enjoy firing people. But there are some that just NEED it.
Not this one. She was still in her 60 day probationary period, so with the performance issue, and the calling in sick when she wasn’t sick - there will be no issues.
Makes me wonder exactly how long she thought 'calling in sick when I’m working my second job ’ would work for. Sounds like the other company got the raw end of the deal hiring a genius like that back.
I don’t know, but it happens a LOT here. This past summer, I got a reference request from a trucking company about one of my drivers. I only ever confirm employment dates and position, and then only in writing, and told the guy that. But in the course of conversation, it turned up that we knew some people in common and started chatting.
Turns out he only had a temporary job to offer my driver and was probably going to offer it anyway, and mentioned that the job was ending in mid-October.
NEXT WEEK, this driver drops a leave request on my desk, asking for the first 6 weeks of school off, so he could attend to ‘personal business’ and he’d return by mid-October.
:dubious:
I say again: :dubious:
So I call said driver in and 'splain that he needs to be here for the start of the year, and if he took the leave after I said no, then I’d have to let him go, but golly, he’s sure welcome to re-apply when he’s able to come back. Unless he could document for me this whole involved tale of dying aunts, and mothers that need to be moved to Alabama. (I have that discretion to deny leave at certain times of the year)