cowboy43
Well-known member
I am sure a lot of you have seen the news story of the grandfather who saved the toddlers on the beach in Australia, It turns out he is from Wales and went to Australia on vacation. The problems is he used sick leave instead of vacation time and the result is he got fired when his company saw the news story on tv. A poll is being done now and 52% says he should not have been fired 31% say he should be fired the rest don't give a poot. I say he should have been fired, as a retired supervisor there is nothing more that can ruin your day after you have set everyone's work schedule and someone calls in sick and leaves you short handed and with unfinished work at the end of the day especially when you are in the service business to take care of the customers. When 52% do not see anything wrong with this ,something is wrong with our work ethics, no wonder the jobs are being outsourced overseas. I had employees who wanted to take a full day to have his teeth cleaned, or one who would take off to go to a funeral at short notice, I would ask him who died , he would say I don't know his name just a friend of a friend, I could go on and on but now all I have to answer to is my cows and they don't give me no lip, if they do I sell their a-- .