Terminated Employee Keeps Showing Up
jenhall
17 Posts
Last week I terminated an employee for continued poor performance. She had only been here a little over thirty days and all she did was walk the halls and socialize. A couple days after she started she developed a "relationship" with one of our purchasing guys. We do not have a policy against this as long as the employees are not in the same department or managers of each other. Now she keeps showing up at the office everyday to see him and again socializing with other office staff. Our handbook does not state that staff can't have visitors and others do bring family members in from time to time, but not everyday as this seems to be happening. Short of banning visitors alltogether, is there any other way to solve this problem? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Tell your purchasing guy not to have his visitor visit so often? I assume it's disruptive or creating some sort of problem.
Elizabeth
Ok, it is time to take the "boar by the ear" and get this issue cleared up.
It is time to write and tell this X-employee she is no longer welcome on company property! Once spoken and once provided in written format it is legal to call the police and have the individual removed from the property and prosecuted for Trespassing. If the current ee male is not willing to remove the cancer, then the company must, in order to maintain a safe working environment. We terminated a transportation manager for poor performance, within the next week she was recruiting for a truck driver walk out with all of the drivers with whom she had personal and private relationships. After the letter and notice was provided, we did not see her on our property again, then we heard but did not see the actual person riding in our vehicle on his delivery run. With that we terminated her "sleep in friend" and sent him packing also and likewise gave him notice that he was no longer welcome on our property. UI hearings in both cases were denied and appealed but affirmed as a solid case.
REMEMBER we are running businesses and any conduct not supportive of our purpose is counter to our purpose. When we allow this kind of conduct to live within our ability to control, the results of any violent action from anybody makes the company liable for neglect under OSHA eyes. When we have the ability to act, and we do not, then we are in the wrong.
Surely, the boy friend is not worth any risk and has got to be the one to fix the issues and concerns or he can go too.
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