I’ve written blogs about an employee which I referred to as Beavis, due to his grunt laugh. He is a complete liability and I don’t know why we didn’t sack him ages ago. His constant excuses why he cannot work are obvious lies. He came up with loads when we worked in the office but then when we started worked from home during lockdown, he had a whole new set to go through.
I understand some people can have some bad luck or them or their family members can have health issues, but is it possible for him to be hit with such frequent illnesses and issues?
Here’s around 3 months of excuses.
- Mobile phone has problems so can’t use authenticator to connect to VPN
- Broadband is too slow
- Needs to take his wife’s car for an MOT
- Laptop broke
- Antibiotics for his dog
- Drove down to the village to see the extent of the floods
- Optician appointment
- Broadband not working
- Cracked Laptop Screen
- Oven repair
- Daughter’s sports day
- BT Broadband outage
- BT Broadband outage again, and phone tethering won’t work either.
- Builder is looking at some “snagging issues”
- Throat glands have all swollen up and I’ve lost my voice
- Emergency dentist work
- Check up following dentist work. Will take an hour total travel, waiting, then dentist time. So at least 2 hours.
A colleague was saying that his line manager isn’t very active so therefore he can send him a message saying that he isn’t coming in, then Nigel won’t have replied to accept his request.
“he uses Nigel’s inability to reply to his advantage”
Isobel: "I have been in contact with Beavis who did the work but he has had to take the day off unexpectedly"
Andy: "is it actually unexpected at this point?"
Other People’s Excuses:
“randomly I’ve just got to move some bales of straw. back soon”
Zoe
(one of the top manager’s wife, so gets a bit of leeway to do what she wants):
- cleaning dining table
- having a shower
- in garden having beers
Derek
(also notorious for slacking. I suspected the occasional lie from him too):
I’ll be working from home today, a leaky shower box is causing an unintended indoor water feature, so I’m hanging around for a plumber. Don’t forget to skype me for the stand-up 😉
I’m working from home today. Sorry I haven’t emailed sooner, I had some problems initially remoting in as my computer at work had a dicky fit.
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