Had to fire my first employee...
 

So in the family business, I have never personally had to deal with any of the hiring/firing personel issues, thats what we have a General Manager of the chain for.

Well, yesterday I popped my firing cherry.

I caught paperwork evidence of an employee who at one time was a full time store manager (now part time because of his school schedule) was stealing (embezzling) from that store.

Best part, I was able to get a full confession out of him and got it recorded on a digital audio recorder WITH his full knowledge that the recorder was present.

Sadly, we can only prove the amount from 4 total invoices. BUT, in the past 12 months, I can prove a total of almost 200 invoices. So the case will likely get pled down to a misdemeanor.

It was satisfying to get the confession though.

What was he stealing?

Felt good didn't it? :D

It just gets easier now ROFL

I always worried I'd have one completely flip out and have to drop them like a rock. Never did happen so maybe the next one? First 100 are the hardest.

Hard ass...

You're just giving him the opportunity to succeed elsewhere.

(That's usually what I tell my employees when their getting shit canned.)

Exactly. I bet if he was paid a decent wage he wouldn't have to "supplement" his income. ROFL

I've never had any issues firing people for cause. **** them. They did it to themselves and every time they've had ample warning beforehand.

Firing people because the business needs to make cuts to survive is a little different, but I figure it's better to screw up one person's life than it is to keep them around knowing I can't afford them and then closing the business, thereby screwing up everyone's lives.

If Dave did that, then he couldnt afford to sit around and play on Chiefsplanet all day...

LMAO...

Was it because your taxes were raised?

You should have kicked his ass! And done it in front off the other employees so they'd get the message!

Violence isnt the answer...

What if the question is "How do I win in a fight?"

Violence...

I once had to wake a guy up who was sleeping on the table in the break room while he was suppossed to be on the air and almost literally drag him out of the building. That was awesome.

please tell me it was Herm.

He'll claim he needed it for crack
you'll get stuck with rehab costs

It's hard to pay for fake tits, when you have employees stealing from you.

my first firing I was so nervous I could barely talk.

every one after that was like Arie Gold. "Get. The ****. OUT!"

How many times you been fired?

yeah, I agree with Simplex here, I know they did it to themselves for every fired/terminated employee. Mostly sleeping on duty, warned and caught. See ya.

today I had to inform about 4 people from cut backs mean they will be leaving soon. sucks but there are pros and cons to everything. Good luck vegas_dave

a nice note to all why he isn't there... may curb the "insider" shrinkage.

BTW supposedly "shrinkage" is way up everywhere and not just insiders. :shake:
can't afford to buy it..... steal it.

Fraud is a very big deal. Very big. I read an interesting statistic that the average fraud case goes 18 months before detection....and that's the ones they catch.

Congrats on bettering your business.

Yes but sometimes it's the question. :D

What if you're crossing the street, get hit by a bus, drug for 30 yards on gravel then trapped under it's tire while gasoline leaks out around you and there's a deaf & blind man playing with matches five feet away?

What's the pros to that situation?

If you live, you're going to be a rich man.......

Why the hell would a deaf/blind man be playing with matches in the first place?

make one hell of an after school movie?

smoker with no lighter?


:shrug:

if one can be a pinball wizard, maybe another can be a famous pyromaniac....
:shrug:

The bus is a 1992 old school bus that hippies have been living in for the last six months. They're uninsured and as soon as they hit you they fled the scene leaving you alone with the match wielding senseless man. Every time you try to get his attention by throwing bits of gravel at him he becomes more nervous and lights more matches.

Just saying - maybe there's not pros to every situation. :D

Incredibly bored at work may have something to do with it as well.

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure sets a mean bon fire.

dude hippies don't drive.

ROFL ! awesome!!!!

That would be my guess :shrug:

Now he can collect max benefits from unemployment. Hired full-time and switched to part-time = max benefits. Whether you fired him for stealing or not.

Are you an elephant... cause your memory is just plain sick. :)

Not only is it not moving but there are no hippies behind the wheel.

Seems hippies can paint cars though.