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Since you've been gone.....
Oh wait, I've been gone...
Nonetheless...
At MSE Landscape Professionals, where I am now Human Resources Manager, (yup, name on the door and everything) the policy is if you don't show up for work for 3 days you have abandoned the job and we terminate you. Everyday a group text goes out to the foremen and supervisors asking if anyone is absent. Yes, I'm still taking roll. Somethings never change.
A guy, lets call him Omar, hasn't shown up for 3 days.
Day 1: I hear from the supervisor, let's call him Raul, that Omar is absent. No call.
Day 2: Omar is absent again. No call. I ask if Raul if he called Omar. He says yes. No answer.
Day 2: After hours. I get a text from Raul that Omar will be back the next day.
Day 3: Omar is absent again. I ask Raul if he heard from him. Raul says yes. I ask why he is absent again. Raul says Omar is on drugs. "Do you have proof?," I ask? "well, no", says Raul. So I ask, "what make you think that?"
This is the best part...(read this with a Spanish accent)
"Well, Marybet, (no typo, that's what I'm called now) Omar, he say, he got shot with a handgun by a chollo and he in a coma in a hospital. Marybet, I don't believe him. I ask him for the doctor note. He don't have one. That what make me think he on drugs."
Good call Raul. 'Cause lots of doctors would release someone to do a manual labor job after being in a coma with a gunshot wound.
It Is What It Is...
Namaste
