Glen,
I cannot tell you how timely this message was. I just gave a “Written” (and verbal) warning to my employee after everyone else in the dept has blown their top over her. She, of course, had an explanation, I felt guilty. None the less. It was a life and death matter and I kept thinking of how you would handle it and DID NOT CAVE IN!!
She is personnable, but her work ethics STINK!!
So I’ll let her go to save the life of my dept. and possiblby the lives of patients.
Thanks AGAIN Glen,
Carolyn in Missouri
Hi Glenn – I have a quick question about your e-letter today. I am sure I am not the only person questioning this . . . In the following quote,
“Friends are a pier-to-pier relationship . . . ” is a relationship “pier to pier” or “peer to peer”? It seems to me it should be peer to peer as employees are peers – and piers and docks that are suspended on stilts that go out in the water for recreational and fishing purposes . . . BUT – if you use “pier to pier” it does put a different spin on what you are saying about employee-employee relationships versus manager-employee relationships.
I imagine you have received several inquiries about this . . .
By the way – the letter was great – as all your letters have been! I always find something that is useful enough to share – and often, it is not even HR or company related!
Johanna LaRose
HR Representative
Carson Dellosa Publishing
This came right on time for me! You have no idea I much I needed this right now. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Glenn!!!
You must have had that sea food business on your mind when you wrote pier to pier. I think peer-to-peer may have been more appropriate.
Very real, every-day experience of people who are in positions to guide and help youngsters. But, it seems to me, that when things don’t work out for the younger guy, he blames his mentor whom he followed to the best of his ability, just as he would have thanked him with his success had things worked out for the best. Who is right and who is wrong? It is a matter of perspective. When our protege fails to achieve what we expected of him, we too fail as mentors. I have experienced it personally and have been trying to figure out where I went wrong and what I should have differently to help guy succeed.
BTW, I thought the phrase is “peer to peer”; not “pier-to-pier”. Please enlighten me. Thanks
I think you mean “peer-to-peer”
Glen,
I cannot tell you how timely this message was. I just gave a “Written” (and verbal) warning to my employee
after everyone else in the dept has blown their top over her. She, of course, had an explanation, I felt guilty. None the less. It was a life and death matter and I kept thinking of how you would handle it and DID NOT CAVE IN!!
She is personnable, but her work ethics STINK!!
So I’ll let her go to save the life of my dept. and possiblby the lives of patients.
Thanks AGAIN Glen,
Carolyn in Missouri