My continuing bitching about employee productivity has taken another hit this week when my other IT techie has called in sick for 5 days because of a high fever.WHAT!!!!
5 days for a fever? Oh come on... I had fevers, limping legs, cough, sputum in my saliva, 3 hour sleeps, pink eyes, deaf. etc... AND I still go to work and suffer from my illness...
Some how I am learning that something here are fabricated because they don't want to show up to work on the first day of school. The stress of new students and teachers asking for IT support can be difficult but CERTAINLY not worth skipping because you have a fever.
Unfortunately this Vietnamese employee is known to have lots of money and it's easy to identify that he is capable of doing such tasks to fabricate any situation. Honestly I want to ask for a second opinion but the days have passed and there is not much I can do about it.
As a rookie manager, this is the reality I am facing of working with employees who are not capable, who are not supportive, who are just there from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Punch your time sheet in and punch your time sheet out.
Does this mean aggression comes into play? Does this mean micro-management is needed?
