A reader writes:
My assistant has been sick quite a bit in the last few months, and she does not “call in” sick (or email or text) to anyone. I have asked her twice to make sure she notifies me each day she will be out. And now for the third time in the past few months, she missed days without notifying anyone. Her pattern is to let us know the first day (or the day she leaves work early) that she is sick, then not contact anyone until she shows up several days later feeling better. We are a very small office (four full-timers), and it’s well-known we can just let any of the others know when we’ll be out.
Isn’t this sort of a common courtesy? I’ve told her face to face twice that I need to be notified each day she misses – but now what? I’m thinking my only real option is to explain that I will have to replace her if it continues, although the work of interviewing and re-training someone is more daunting that just dealing with it.
I answer this question — and four others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.
Other questions I’m answering there today include:
- My company dinner is at a steakhouse, but many of us are vegetarians
- I was promoted without a raise
- Asking if HR mistakenly rejected you for an internal position
- Resigning when I can’t give two weeks notice
my assistant refuses to call in when she’s out sick was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.
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