Took 1.5 years to find this hire and she quits after a week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So did you call her and tell her she can work remotely for as long as she needs and you will fly her up for team meetings every X weeks since is the person you need but family comes first?

We don’t do remote work

Well then the market is telling you something about this role if you can’t find someone in 1.5 years to stick it out. Either offer remote work, increase the pay, or both. Or break up the job into more than one role with easier to find people.

+1

Your telework policy is rigid (and three months until you qualify!?) and you do not allow remote work -- meanwhile the role is so specialized that it takes 1.5 years to fill? PP has it right.

Also, if the employee who quit is telling the truth, you completely lack empathy. I understand being upset at the situation, but being furious with her because her future FIL has dementia?! And why should she be expected to give two weeks' notice to a place where she only worked one week? What exactly would you have her doing over the next two weeks? Meet more employees and start reorganizing while she's headed out the door? None of this makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Shea clearly lying. You don't need to resign effective immediately without another job and house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shea clearly lying. You don't need to resign effective immediately without another job and house.

Yes you can. If you’re staying in another state to take care of someone and your employer doesn’t offer remote, what is the point in coming back? To work for another week or 2 just to go back?

[Anonymous]

Wow, one week in and she had to lie (assuming) about a dying person to get out.

It's an indicative of OP and her organization, if anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one week in and she had to lie (assuming) about a dying person to get out.

It's an indicative of OP and her organization, if anything.

We have a great company. Most people who come here are here for at least 5 years. Most people stay 10+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one week in and she had to lie (assuming) about a dying person to get out.

It's an indicative of OP and her organization, if anything.

We have a great company. Most people who come here are here for at least 5 years. Most people stay 10+

Why has it been so hard to hire for this position, OP? I'm not asking that to give you a hard time - I'm genuinely curious. Maybe this says what I don't know about HR - but aren't there a lot of people with those skills, and they're pretty interchangeable from org to org? It's not like you have to be an expert on dolphin law to do HR for a nonprofit that specializes in dolphin law, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one week in and she had to lie (assuming) about a dying person to get out.

It's an indicative of OP and her organization, if anything.

We have a great company. Most people who come here are here for at least 5 years. Most people stay 10+

Why has it been so hard to hire for this position, OP? I'm not asking that to give you a hard time - I'm genuinely curious. Maybe this says what I don't know about HR - but aren't there a lot of people with those skills, and they're pretty interchangeable from org to org? It's not like you have to be an expert on dolphin law to do HR for a nonprofit that specializes in dolphin law, right?

We’ve used agencies for our hiring needs the past 10 years so this is the first time we’ve had a dedicated hiring specialist. That being said, we were picky because it’s a new position and department and that’s why it took a while to find someone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. She wasn’t the right person. After 1.5 years you still have not found the right person. I would change the job. If it isn’t fillable, you need to rethink it.

This. You are clearly being too picky about this position.

That and remote work isn't an option.

This is a troll. She "does great" and all that other stuff happens within a single week?

[Anonymous]

The fact that it took you 1.5 years means the salary is too low. People can fill a job in less time than that even when they need to bring someone in from another country. Raise the salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am FURIOUS. It took me 1.5 years to find the right person. She comes and does great. I get her to meet with every department head, send out a company-wide email that she’s joined the team, she set up meetings with others for this week to discuss the plans she had to make changes to their teams, we had started to discuss future plans she wanted to make to the department, etc., so she got very involved her first week.

I asked her Friday what her plans were and she said that she had to fly to GA because her father in law had a rare form of dementia, he’s not doing well, it’s just her husband taking care of him, and they needed to meet his doctors and her husband was already down there meeting with some of them. Last night she sent me a resignation letter saying that he was doing worse than they had thought and it would be financially better to relocate there instead of hiring 24/7 home care. She was resigning immediate to stay there to take care of him.

I am incredibly furious and embarrassed that she would do this. Just needed to vent.

You have bigger problems if it took you 1.5 years to hire someone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one week in and she had to lie (assuming) about a dying person to get out.

It's an indicative of OP and her organization, if anything.

We have a great company. Most people who come here are here for at least 5 years. Most people stay 10+

Why has it been so hard to hire for this position, OP? I'm not asking that to give you a hard time - I'm genuinely curious. Maybe this says what I don't know about HR - but aren't there a lot of people with those skills, and they're pretty interchangeable from org to org? It's not like you have to be an expert on dolphin law to do HR for a nonprofit that specializes in dolphin law, right?

We’ve used agencies for our hiring needs the past 10 years so this is the first time we’ve had a dedicated hiring specialist. That being said, we were picky because it’s a new position and department and that’s why it took a while to find someone.

A year and a half is not a while, it's a LONG time to hire. Something is wrong here.

[Anonymous]

Why’d you give so much work the first week? Probably why she quit.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like it's a terrible position or shit-tastcular pay.

Your fault, not hers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one week in and she had to lie (assuming) about a dying person to get out.

It's an indicative of OP and her organization, if anything.

We have a great company. Most people who come here are here for at least 5 years. Most people stay 10+

Why has it been so hard to hire for this position, OP? I'm not asking that to give you a hard time - I'm genuinely curious. Maybe this says what I don't know about HR - but aren't there a lot of people with those skills, and they're pretty interchangeable from org to org? It's not like you have to be an expert on dolphin law to do HR for a nonprofit that specializes in dolphin law, right?

We’ve used agencies for our hiring needs the past 10 years so this is the first time we’ve had a dedicated hiring specialist. That being said, we were picky because it’s a new position and department and that’s why it took a while to find someone.

What field/department?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am FURIOUS. It took me 1.5 years to find the right person. She comes and does great. I get her to meet with every department head, send out a company-wide email that she’s joined the team, she set up meetings with others for this week to discuss the plans she had to make changes to their teams, we had started to discuss future plans she wanted to make to the department, etc., so she got very involved her first week.

I asked her Friday what her plans were and she said that she had to fly to GA because her father in law had a rare form of dementia, he’s not doing well, it’s just her husband taking care of him, and they needed to meet his doctors and her husband was already down there meeting with some of them. Last night she sent me a resignation letter saying that he was doing worse than they had thought and it would be financially better to relocate there instead of hiring 24/7 home care. She was resigning immediate to stay there to take care of him.

I am incredibly furious and embarrassed that she would do this. Just needed to vent.

Lack of remote and you clearly pay too little since she couldn’t make finances work AND it tools 1.5 years to rope in a candidate for your peanuts.