Work

I work for a place that find people jobs, I actually oversee our workers with one of the clients. Currently I'm watching over 70 people. That's a lot of heartbeats and activity to keep an eye on every day. My goal is to get it to over 100 people. But the climb is the real stressor. So every week we call people in for interviews, talk to them, evaluate them, decide if they would be a good fit. And every week it seems that our request for qualified people exceeds our actual turnout of them. As if that isn't enough, on top of that I have to deal with the folk already working. If they call out or are late, I'm supposed to administer disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.

The bad part is the place is so unbelievably strict on attendance, miss more than 1 day and you are GONE buddy!! Doesn't matter if you have a note from the Dr, doesn't matter if you were truly and genuinely unable to stand without vomiting, doesn't matter what temperature you or your family is running. Newborn baby? not a chance. Sound heartless?? To some it might, until you really think about it. How can you be fair to everyone, to every single worker in the place if you don't treat them all equally and blindly. Put down a blanket rule, one absence, and stick to it no matter what. And they are told and have it stressed to them right from the start. I don't think they believe it though. Do you know how many time I hear, "but I got a Dr's note..." I even had one guy try to tell me that because he ran his own company for 8 years that the place couldn't legally end him for calling in sick (idiot), which actually turned out really funny since they didn't. I only issued him a warning and he wound up quitting a week later.

The hardest part for me though is having to terminate the good employees who were probably truly and honestly sick. The ones who really REALLY needed work and looked at me as some kind of hope or reprieve from their situation. The ones that fate simply just doesn't seem to want to let alone long enough to get up off the ground and dust themselves off a bit. Those are the ones that have me super-stressed. Not to mention every time that happens, it means more work for me. Because then I have to replace those people as well as find ones for new positions.

It's stressful work. I truly hope my co-workers and I can keep this line going. Though I will admit, working a lot like this while taking it's toll on me personally also tends to have an impact on my computing time. When you spend all day on a computer at work, why would you want to come home and get back on one again!!