Ex employee is driving me nuts!

[Anonymous]

That's not much notice OP, to tell someone on a Thu they're in at 3pm Sat? Not a good management move. Also makes no sense to talk to a parent about it? Sounds like retail/fast food, etc low paying teen jobs. OK it didn't work out, but you hired the teenager, you didn't hire the parent kwim.

I was a manager for over 10 years and yes, a parent tried to call once to explain away their daughter's absence. I was nice to her but wouldn't discuss w/her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an adult in a professional job and if my manager requested a last minute department meeting on a Sat. at 3pm , I would say no, Sorry, too busy on my own time.

Schedule during the week at a reasonable time and make sure I am compensated.

Exactly. The girl might be a flake or she might just be young, but an unpaid, last minute, mandatory meeting in a shift-work environment? No. What if she didn't have a hair appointment. What if she had another job?

Also, how is she driving you nuts after the fact? Seems like you had a few minutes of bother.

[Anonymous]

She might be a flake, OP, but she's a 17yo (and working at a crappy minimum wage job, by the sounds of it). You, on the other hand, are the adult in the situation. Last minute Saturday meeting? I didn't put up with that when I was working for minimum wage at Dairy Queen when I was 17, and I definitely would not put up with it now.

If you want your employees to respect you and work hard for you, give them a reason to do it. Sounds like you definitely aren't.

(And I'm amazed that as an adult, you aren't able to put yourself above the situation and let it go. Sounds like there's a reason you're managing a bunch of teenagers)

[Anonymous]

I think you shouldn't have told her father whether she's underage or not. I think that's private information.

[Anonymous]

I'm not OP- I was a restaurant manager and had plenty of dumb ass kids working for me but I NEVER told their parents what they'd done, just like I didn't let their parents call in for them. They were treated as adults.

I never scheduled a mandatory meeting either, without having another alternative date. And yes, they were given at least one weeks notice and could choose from the two- which were scheduled during hours they could be scheduled to work anyway.

A business takes on the personality of its management. I'm sure you are a joy to work for and your employees are committed to quality.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why this girl is "driving OP nuts." she quit, she's gone, end of story.

[Anonymous]

3pm on a Saturday? It must have been of life and death importance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She may well have been a problem, but if my boss randomly scheduled meetings on short notice when I wasn't scheduled to work and refused to acknowledge pre-existing commitments I'd think it was extreme unprofessional. Just because someone is 17 and presumably working a low skill job doesn't mean their manager owns their free time.

+1 A mandatory meeting on a Saturday at the last minute? No thanks.

Ummm Yeah I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday.......

Love that movie

[Anonymous]

OP, please learn some social and management skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not OP- I was a restaurant manager and had plenty of dumb ass kids working for me but I NEVER told their parents what they'd done, just like I didn't let their parents call in for them. They were treated as adults.

I never scheduled a mandatory meeting either, without having another alternative date. And yes, they were given at least one weeks notice and could choose from the two- which were scheduled during hours they could be scheduled to work anyway.

A business takes on the personality of its management. I'm sure you are a joy to work for and your employees are committed to quality.

Also a restaurant manager and I always had an AM and PM meeting scheduled. I did the schedule so everyone could attend during their usual shift.