After promoting a member of staff to manager level based on merit, he isn’t impressed when she fails to open the shop one day. Telling her he made a mistake and plans to demote or terminate her position, she calls him out for discrimination, but he stands his ground.
Has His Own Business
The man owns a vape shop. It’s a small business that he’s built from the ground up. He has just twelve employees who are fully supportive of his small but successful enterprise.
An Excellent Candidate
He has recently promoted a member of staff to manager. After two solid years of great work as a cashier, he truly believes that she can handle the responsibility, as well as enjoy her work.
Needing Personal Time
Another reason for promoting a staff member is due to having a lack of personal time. As much as he loves his job, it’s very time-consuming running a business, and he feels the time is right to let someone else help out.
A New Challenge
It was the beginning of her promotion so impossible to assess how well she was handling the extra responsibility. She had additional chores such as opening and closing the shop, dealing with online inquiries, and so on.
A Stressful Finding
One day, he decides to catch up on sleep. He wakes around midday having needed the rest. He’s surprised when he sees that he has missed calls, texts, and around thirty notifications on the store’s Facebook page.
A Shock Realization
When he looks at the messages, he’s shocked to find that customers have been trying to come to the shop, but it’s closed. Employees are showing up to work, but they’re locked out.
A Major Let Down
It dawns on him that it was his new manager that was due to open up. Angered at the fact that she could cost him new and regular customers, he assumes that there must be an emergency.
Nowhere to Be Found
He calls his new manager and gets no response. He texts her, and the same thing happens. He eventually goes in and opens the store, gradually becoming more concerned about her welfare.
A Late Recovery
An hour before her shift was supposed to be over, she called him back. Instantly, he feels relief that she must be alright. He picks up his phone, certain that she’ll have an amazing reason for not turning up at work.
An Unexpected Answer
He asks her if she’s okay, and very matter-of-factly, she says, “Oh, yes! I just needed to take a mental health day and do some self-care.” He pauses, waiting to see if its a wind-up.
Trying to Stay Calm
He’s still pretty irate at this point, but he tries his hardest to be understanding. He fully appreciates how important mental health can be and has always been respectful of it with his staff.
A Confusing Statement
He asks her why she didn’t call him as soon as she knew. Again, her tone is very calm. She says that she just needed the day off. Politely, he repeats the question, why didn’t she call? Her response was, “I didn’t have enough spoons in my drawer for that!”
She Isn’t up to It
Initially, he has no idea what she’s referring to. Perhaps she’s saying that she didn’t have the headspace. Overall, it seems to him that she’s saying she cannot be trusted to handle the responsibility of opening the store in the morning.
A Matter of Choice
Completely baffled by the whole conversation and frustrated at her lack of concern, he decides there and then that she isn’t up to the role. He gives her two options: go back to her old position with her old pay, or he fires her completely.
An Abrupt Ending
Aside from hearing a sharp intake of breath from the other end of the line, she doesn’t say anything. The next thing he knows is that she’s hung up on him. He’s pretty speechless himself!
A Tirade of Hate
Over the course of the next few days, she calls him all sorts of ‘-ist’ and says he’s discriminating against her due to her poor mental health and her gender. He can’t help but feel angry that she’s twisted the whole situation.
Could Have Been Avoided
Speaking to another member of staff who understands his plight, he says that what angers him most is that none of this would have been a problem if she simply took two minutes to call! He would have got up and opened the store on time.
Can’t Deal With Unprofessional People
He says that he invested in her, believing that she was up to the job. As it’s his own business that he can’t afford to let flounder, he says that this no-call/no-show business is not an option. His work colleague agrees with him.
A Bad Call
When the manager enters his store to work, he says he feels bad that he’s taken away her promotion over something she really had no control over. She asks him to give her a second chance, or she’ll call him out for discrimination. He says he can’t risk it and to ‘go for it!’.
Calls Him Sexist
When she calls him a sexist for the final time, he gets angry and shouts back at her saying, “I am NOT sexist! And I am not taking your promotion away because of your gender or your poor mental health, I am reacting to you NOT following the sickness policy of contacting me before your shift!”
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