one of my employees is leaving the job in 2 weeks she has started to come late and becoming inefficient?

Question

one of my employees is getting married and is moving to another state on the other coast. she is leaving the job in 2 weeks she has now started to come late and becoming inefficient regularly, when asked how should I treat you -she says - write me up. how should i tackle the situation without causing a revolt as the other employees see that this particular employee is taking undue advantage. should the employee be written up/fired or should i just let her enjoy the last two weeks and wait for her to quit?

Answer 1

Listen this is a touchy situation. She's already quit, so you can't fire her and if you did you'd pay unemployment, not a smart move. So what you should do is decided if she is accomplishing anything at all while she's there. If she is, deal with it and hope your other employees won't follow suit. You don't get much work out of most workers who've given notice anyway, this is common. But if she's not doing anything at all, and your other employees are starting to grumble and you think it could case you staff problems, you should talk to her and tell her that she seems to be finished up here and she can go. You will have to pay her for those final days of her notice, even if you don't want her to come in! Docking her there is illegal and again can cause you to pay unemployment. If you can make the decision, you might be better off with her out of your environment, if your other staff is being upset or might follow suit. If it's not that bad and she's doing something, just hang on until she's gone. If your other employees mention to you that she's getting away with something, you might always soothe them and discourage them from doing the same by saying "yeah, I know. what a shame to ruin all her time here by making us a poor reference and burning bridges."

Answer 2

You absolutely cannot leave a cat home alone for 3 weeks! You set out a glass of water then I want you to drink it 2 weeks from now. Then I want you to poo in the toilet but don't flush it for a week. Don't both of those sound icky? Well that's what you are expecting your cat to do. Cats should be given a fresh bowl of water every day! Nobody scooping the litter box for 3 weeks is just nasty and a smell you don't want to come home to and the cat doesn't want to live with either. It is not necessary for anyone to play with your cat or pet it. It is perfectly okay if it runs and hides. What you want is someone to come and make sure it is safe and that it gets fed and fresh water put out and the litter box scooped. Your options are: 1. Call your vet and ask if any of the vet techs cat sit and if they do, hire them to come to your home once a day to feed and scoop. 2. If they don't, ask the vet about boarding your cat there. Or ask them if they know anyone who cat sits because they may other clients who do. 3. Call the SPCA and ask if they can recommend cat sitters, quite often they know very trust worthy people. You want a bonded cat sitter. 4. You should set up a timer on a couple lamps in your home to turn on at dusk and turn off around 11:00 or 12:00 bedtime. Plug in some night lights that turn themselves on and off. You want the home atmosphere to remain as normal as possible. Do not hire a neighbor kid to do it! They are unreliable and will not show up for days. Don't pay your sitter until you come home. Leave all phone numbers where you can be reached posted on the refrig. along with vets phone number and a permission note for the sitter to take the cat to the vet if it is sick. Notify your vet you will be gone (if they don't have it boarded with them) and how to reach you and who might bring the cat in if there is an emergency. You cannot put out canned food for the cat at all! It's kibble and water only if you leave your cat behind unattended and you have no clue how much water. What if the cat plays and knocks over the water and there is no water for 2 or 3 weeks? You need at least two food and water stations located in different parts of the home and you need two extra litter boxes set up minimum. This is not a good thing to leave a cat alone for that length of time. Board it or get a pet sitter!

Answer 3

Write her up on what ever she is doing wrong. Advise her that if employers ask , it will be in her record. That may help some.
And hope the 2 weeks goes by fast so she is gone. If she need a job reference, she will get a bad one from you because of what she has done, only fair, but you have to tell her. Don't fire her, last thing you want. She could sue you, and a lot of other things.
Good Luck

Answer 4

You can take her off the schedule, I know a lot of places that once an employee turns in there 2 weeks, they are taken off the schedule almost instantly, or there hours are cut to maybe 1-2 days. Youre not firing her that way, just not dealing with it

Answer 5

Sounds like it is time to let her go. If you keep her, you are sending the message to your other employees that it is okay to come in late and not do your work.

Answer 6

Fire her. She should be treated like any other employee, and it sounds like she is taking serious advantage of the situation. If it were me (and it were logistically plausible) I would have fired her the first time she threw that "Write me up" line at me.

Answer 7

Write her up every time she is late. Write her up for insubordination. Document everything. If your company has a progressive disciplinary process follow it and then let her go. If its a cliff edge violation let her go on the spot.

You can also tell her that she is jeopardizing a decent reference due to her inappropriate behavior.

Answer 8

Yeah, Short-timers disease. Probably best to just tell her you dont need her, go home and get her bags packed. It's better in the longrun to just not have someone around if they are gonna blatantly screw off while everybody else has to work.

Answer 9

Tell her she is not welcome to work out her last two weeks.