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I am a manager at a large accounting firm and have about 30 people in my immediate group. People in my group tend to get away with a lot of stuff (working from home whenever they want, making their own work schedules..). ...
I know I'm a bit late to the party, but ... THIS^^, is the real issue.
I don't have control to fire him. There are multiple managers in my group and we all report up to a partner. The partner has the control to fire him. The partner keeps the slackers around for a "business" reason. It takes a lot for him to actually fire someone. The only control I have is to report the behavior to him and document it in a review. The problem is that the partner does not work directly with the problem employees so he doesn't see how it effects the group. I am unhappy about it and so are all his coworkers that have to pick up the slack.
I don't have control to fire him. There are multiple managers in my group and we all report up to a partner. The partner has the control to fire him. The partner keeps the slackers around for a "business" reason. It takes a lot for him to actually fire someone. The only control I have is to report the behavior to him and document it in a review. The problem is that the partner does not work directly with the problem employees so he doesn't see how it effects the group. I am unhappy about it and so are all his coworkers that have to pick up the slack.
In that case, you need to get over it. Your boss is letting him get away with it. It definitely sucks!
I am a manager at a large accounting firm and have about 30 people in my immediate group. People in my group tend to get away with a lot of stuff (working from home whenever they want, making their own work schedules..). We have one staff who has been with the firm less than 2 yrs and we are having major problems with. He had approached all of the managers back in October that he had some family issues and would need some flexibility in his work schedule. We were very upset to hear about his family issues and agreed to let him take his flexibility but that he would need to let everyone know if he needed to take off or work from home. Ever since that day, he has been coming in to work probably at most twice a week and then working on his own time. Not once has he emailed anyone to let us know of his schedule. When he does come to the office he leaves at whatever time he feels (12 pm/2pm). He has no regard for any work deadline and does not seem interested in the work at all. We send out work meetings each week and he doesn't feel he needs to respond to those either. He also said he would only work with certain people so he made everyone rearrange their client schedules for him. I find him completely disrespectful and rude. I submitted a work review for him with my concerns and he still does whatever he wants. So the issue is now that one of the bosses sent out an email with tickets to a baseball game in the firm's box. Whoever writes back the fastest gets the tickets. I wrote back and got tickets and apparently this staff did not but one of his friends went out of his way to lie and say he would like to take a client to the box and is bringing the staff to the game with him. I am appalled. This guy does not deserve tickets let alone a paycheck. There are sooo many hardworking people in our group that would love to have the tickets. Is there anything I can do to prevent him from going or should I just get over it and realize he will be gone eventually?
How about focusing on the real issue in regards to this "staff" and do what needs to be done to fire him?
The baseball tiket issue is less than trivial besides that if you already know the other "staff" lied about taking a client take those tickets away from him and give them to someone who is not "staff".
Then do what is necessary to fire the "staff" who is the liar.
If everyone who is directly affected by the behavior of the staff perhaps they should all get together and revoke his work at home status and require him to come into the office daily.
Then they should gather together and have a group meeting with the owners, partners, whomever all of you report to and get this issue out in the open, discussed and fixed.
Then maybe you should look for another job where there is no fighting over baseball tickets.
That employee that lied about taking a client is another manager that also has learned to work the system. He is on a flexible work arrangement and takes off every Friday for no reason. He does not have kids, family or any issue in that he needs a flexible work arrangement. I am going to make sure to mention this incident to the partner. He will probably do nothing though as usual. It is a shame.
I do my own duties and what is required by my job. You would be okay with making the same paycheck as someone who comes to work once a week and is living the life while you're working hard?
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