Friday, July 30, 2010

HR Undercover

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Does this mean I am fired?

Posted by admin On March - 5 - 2009

Friday evening, I forgot something at the office. I came back to retrieve it and found blankets rolled up on a chair in the sales office. I immediately thought that someone had broken into our office to find a place to sleep (it was the beginning of a long holiday weekend). As I looked across the room to determine what was truly going on, I saw clothes and a pair of shoes scattered around the room. I quickly realized that the clothes matched that of one of our sales reps as he had worn them to work earlier that day. The police were called and we (my husband and myself) had to meet them there when we knew for a fact that the employee was in the office (well after business hours). As it turned out, the employee had been living in our office for quite some time. His desk was his medicine cabinet, he had work-out equipment hidden all over the office, and he had small kitchen appliances hidden as well. I’m sure it seems as though it should have been very obvious that someone had been living there, but this guy was a real pro (who, of course, had some serious issues). While it took well over an hour for him to pack everything up while we and the police stood over him, he actually asked me “does this mean I’m fired?”.
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