i know whats going to happen how should i handle it?

Question

I am a fuel station manager and i have to let 2 people go today they are both minorities one black and the other hispanic.from the other employes i have my assitant manager is black and was told by one of them if i ever fired he would call out racism and do whatever i guess.what do i say or do to them that there job performance is the reason not who they are?

Answer 1

Just be completely honest about why you are firing them and if if one of the calls out racism, make sure you have been keeping Elevations of them performance at work. I am black and it upsets me when people of my nationality act like dumb ***. Again just make sure you have the paper work to cover your ***. if there work sucks the it sucks. You should be able to have employees that do a good job

Answer 2

If you have legitimate concerns about an employee's performance on the job, you have to communicate those concerns with your employee. In order to prove your legitimate concerns, you have to tell the employee exactly how he has failed to go by your company's rules, and to give the employee the opportunity to rebut your concerns. And this has to be documented. You have to give the employee a written statement of what you are telling him, and make sure the employee writes down his side of the questionable behavior.
Whatever your written employment policies are, you can document infractions, and you policies will state how many times you have to correct an employee for a specific failure, before you can fire the employee for cause. Prove that your cause, and not racism, was the reason for firing.
And be really sure of your own mind. If an employee is fired for racism, he has legitimate claim for having been denied his income, and embarrassment, etc. Just because you don't like the color of his skin, could cost you a truckload of money.
But there are people who just cannot do a job, and an employer should not be required to pay wages when the work is not being done.

Answer 3

i've been there...i worked for wal-mart for many years and that happened quite often....honestly, though, i explained to the employee why i was terming them and i had documentation.
no matter what they could not argue with the fact that they violated policy and therefore they were termed for it.

so, just take them into your office, individually, and present them with the facts. they did this on this date, etc and it was a violation of policy, therefore you have to let them go. try to be a human as possible, people will respond to you more if you're "hey, you know you've missed work 5 times this past month and we can't operate like that. unfortunately, i have to let you go because of it." don't start quoting policies, but if they start to argue, then bring out the policy and show them.

if they threaten to scream racism, then tell them to fo ahead b/c that is not why you're firing them. tell them that they will have to prove that's why you're firing them and that would be pretty hard to do since it's not the reason.
then explain to them again, why you're terming them and then process them out.

good luck...it's not easy...management can suck.

take care.

Answer 4

first of all you shouldnt bring up the reason of racism at all. You simple tell them that its not working out, i'm going to guess you have ask them in the past to be better so you need to to let them know that you havent seen a positive change in their behavior and your gonna have to let them go.