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⌈ Secret Post #2432 ⌋

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[Leverage]

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[Dragon Ball Z]

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[John Cusack, Say Anything]

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[Arrested Development]

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[Star Wars]

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[Easy A]

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[Star Trek]

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10. http://i.imgur.com/XrNzg6P.jpg
[link for porny art, illustrated]

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11. [SPOILERS for Twin Peaks]

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12. [SPOILERS for dangan ronpa, fire emblem awakening, pokemon special, and gatchaman crowds]

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13. [SPOILERS for Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan]

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14. [WARNING for abuse/incest/non-con]

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I'm in the process of firing someone right now and it irks me bad. She's invested in her work, she's knowledgeable and sweet to the customers. But she's been repeatedly lying to me about minor errors she's done, explaining them away and blaming circumstances and other people. What makes it even worse is that, to my knowledge, it's small stuff that happens to most people and could easily have been solved. Even caught red-handed and been given better options she keeps lying. I can't give her more chances and I don't trust her anymore. She obviously don't get how easy it is to see through all her little lies and schemes. What a waste.

if it is small irrelevant stuff, and she is doing the big stuff right, then you are an idiot for firing her.

Remember, don't sweat the small stuff.

DA

...Did you ignore the 'caught red-handed and still lying' bit? If they're doing that - on any level - it's enough for some employer's to let them go.

Lying about irrelevant crap is still irrelevant. Making superficial mistakes which the OP admits are not worth worrying about are also mistakes not worth worrying about.

If you can't trust someone, you can't trust someone.

Apparently they could trust the individual to get the big stuff right and keep the customers sweet, that is pretty much all that needs to be known.

It sets a precedent though. If you cannot trust someone to come clean about minor stuff that nobody will even care about and they already blame that sort of shit on coworkers, then you know that when something big does inevitably happen, you'll just have more lies in a situation where you really really can't use them. It is also behavior that generates a lot of ill-will within a group of co-workers which is also something you don't need.

SA Did you notice the "blaming other people" part? That's not minor to me, even if the original error was, that's dead serious. I'm actually letting her off easy in that regard. I guess she's just immature, but when laying down the line doesn't work, I don't feel like I have other options. I have a responsibility to my other employees too.

An employee you cannot trust who refuses to take personal responsibility for even minor mistakes is not "small stuff" and I'm side-eyeing you for saying it is.

Did you tell her that this was a problem?

I mean, I don't think this is me - I do make mistakes and I sometimes get a little wishy-washy about fessing up, but I've never blamed somebody else, and I do try to fix things. At the beginning, I was told to make some adjustments to certain customer service aspects - which I took seriously and the issues were never brought up again. To my knowledge, I haven't done anything wrong - and if I have, I'd really like to know what that is. I'd be far more okay with, "We're not keeping you because x, y, z..." than I am with, "We're just not keeping you. Bye."

It really sucks to lose a job and not have any idea why. If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, how can I hope to get better?

SA I'm not pointing at OP here, no (if that's you).

I've never told her outright that I hate that she's lying me straight in the face, but I have told her repeatedly that her petty excuses are factually wrong (also with blaming others, which is a straight up scrape on her record, no mistaking that), yet she just keeps it up. So even if I planned for a more long term employment for her, she's not getting her contract renewed here.

I don't really feel that I owe her more at this point. But if she asks, I'll tell her. I'm glad she hasn't asked me for a recommendation letter though.

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