I've just been given the heads up that HR are going to fire my secretary.
!!
I swear, I had nothing to do with this! She's only been my secretary for a little over a month. But I'd heard a lot of rumours about her from her previous team. Like how she takes a LOT of days off for no good reason. And frankly, when I got a call this morning at 10.30 am from her telling me that she wouldn't be coming to work because she had to attend her brother's parent-teacher conference, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrow.
I hate to sound mean (but we all know that I'm totally bitching here). Perhaps today she really had to go to her brother's school because she's an orphan and her brother has nobody else. But then last Monday, her mother fell while cleaning the bathroom so she couldn't come to work then and she's clearly not an orphan if she has a mother who's failing in the bathroom (again, this could have been a perfectly legit excuse). And on Friday she didn't come coz she wasn't feel well. And on Monday this week she had conjunctivitis. Is it me, or is this a lot of bad stuff to happen to one person in the space of two weeks? Not to mention she was on leave last week on tuesday to thurday due to Eid.
Nevertheless, I've never grumbled about it out loud. For the most part, I think she's rather pleasant to be around and at least when she's here she does do the work that needs to be done. But it is incredibly frustrating when I come in to work and I need her to urgently do something and she's not there. Or today when I was looking for a bundle of documents that I'd asked her to bind but it had only been half done. I had to get another secretary to finish the work. The Boss had some how gotten wind of this, perhaps from another secretary in my team and had told me that I should complain to HR about it. I didn't even know I could.
I guess someone else got there before me. Now I'm not sure whether I should give her the heads up when she comes in tomorrow (or when ever...) or just play it dumb and act surprised when she tells me about it. Or should I just keep quiet and when she mentions it, confess that I'd heard about it some time ago. I'm not sure if it'd be the friendly thing to do to just warn her or if I even have the authority to, seeing as she hasn't officially been notified by HR.
!!
I swear, I had nothing to do with this! She's only been my secretary for a little over a month. But I'd heard a lot of rumours about her from her previous team. Like how she takes a LOT of days off for no good reason. And frankly, when I got a call this morning at 10.30 am from her telling me that she wouldn't be coming to work because she had to attend her brother's parent-teacher conference, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrow.
I hate to sound mean (but we all know that I'm totally bitching here). Perhaps today she really had to go to her brother's school because she's an orphan and her brother has nobody else. But then last Monday, her mother fell while cleaning the bathroom so she couldn't come to work then and she's clearly not an orphan if she has a mother who's failing in the bathroom (again, this could have been a perfectly legit excuse). And on Friday she didn't come coz she wasn't feel well. And on Monday this week she had conjunctivitis. Is it me, or is this a lot of bad stuff to happen to one person in the space of two weeks? Not to mention she was on leave last week on tuesday to thurday due to Eid.
Nevertheless, I've never grumbled about it out loud. For the most part, I think she's rather pleasant to be around and at least when she's here she does do the work that needs to be done. But it is incredibly frustrating when I come in to work and I need her to urgently do something and she's not there. Or today when I was looking for a bundle of documents that I'd asked her to bind but it had only been half done. I had to get another secretary to finish the work. The Boss had some how gotten wind of this, perhaps from another secretary in my team and had told me that I should complain to HR about it. I didn't even know I could.
I guess someone else got there before me. Now I'm not sure whether I should give her the heads up when she comes in tomorrow (or when ever...) or just play it dumb and act surprised when she tells me about it. Or should I just keep quiet and when she mentions it, confess that I'd heard about it some time ago. I'm not sure if it'd be the friendly thing to do to just warn her or if I even have the authority to, seeing as she hasn't officially been notified by HR.
1 comment:
oooh, that's tough. we had a similar situation in our office a couple of weeks ago, too. i would just stay mum...u don't want to put ur job in jeopardy. u don't know how she's going to react to the news - u might end up worse than her.
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