Molly wrote:Good dude, I've let this go on as long as I can but folks who don't normally complain are now complaining. I've cut you as much slack as I can but your poor performance is starting to reflect badly on me. You need to get your stuff together or I'm going to have to let you go.
Hopefully his personal stuff isn't really, really serious.
Let's see, his laundry list includes:
- 2 kids with an unstable ex-wife
- Prolonged custody battle and ongoing issues with kid exchanges, ex's boyfriend being shady, etc.
- Young son accusing the ex's boyfriend of hitting when mad
- Current wife is bipolar or something, and needs to be on meds (is now, I think)
- Grandmother fell and broke her hip, can't get upstairs in her own house anymore
- Father had some sort of psychotic episode where he thought bugs were all over his home and getting under his skin
- 2 dogs that got into something and were [expletive] all over his house for a week straight
- Been in at least two accidents, and his wife in one too
- Has had to move twice in two years
SO, I try to give him a lot of leeway (especially when it comes to the ex and his kids -- he's literally their only hope at a decent life). But I really do feel like he's taking advantage of my kindness at this point. He's supposed to be here 9-5. He started needing to get his kids from school even on days when his ex has them, so he now leaves at 4 every day. Sometimes even 3:55. Plus he hasn't been in at 9 in forever. Like I said, if it's 9:10 even, I can look past that. But lately it's been more like 9:30. And today it was 9:45. And he doesn't work through lunch.
I've had multiple discussions about this. He knows the hours he's supposed to keep. He's putting me in a really bad spot. Which sucks, because he knows the business side of what we do way better than anyone else on our team. I made the mistake of telling him a while back how invaluable he is to the company. And it's really around then that he started to slide.
Sigh.
