Spiteful: Addendum to the addendum.
Nov. 12th, 2002 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nockergeekEx-developer just called our salesperson -
"I'm going to be down there in 6 minutes to pick up my last paycheck. If you don't have my last paycheck cut for me by the time I get there, I'm suing you. I have dismissal rights!"
Well, here's the problems with that logic:
1) Our salesperson can't cut paychecks. Only the head of the company and the accountant can do that. Accountant's out right now, and the boss was unavailable at the moment.
2) He doesn't have dismissal rights. He resigned. He put in a letter of resignation on Friday, and had announced his resignation to co-workers and clients on Thursday. This morning, he was asked to leave the premises, which is standard operating procedure for IT departures.
3) By suing us, he'll hurt the entire company, including his former co-workers. The second he threatened to hurt my livelihood by making ridiculous demands, he lost all respect in my eyes. I've got no problem with him wanting to be paid for his last week of work, but to dangle legal action over our heads if he doesn't get it within a moronically-short timeframe not set by the company makes it personal. He should get his final paycheck, and then he should stay the fuck away from our company, and from me.
Funny how I can go from having total sympathy for someone to thinking they're a total fuckhead in one day.
"I'm going to be down there in 6 minutes to pick up my last paycheck. If you don't have my last paycheck cut for me by the time I get there, I'm suing you. I have dismissal rights!"
Well, here's the problems with that logic:
1) Our salesperson can't cut paychecks. Only the head of the company and the accountant can do that. Accountant's out right now, and the boss was unavailable at the moment.
2) He doesn't have dismissal rights. He resigned. He put in a letter of resignation on Friday, and had announced his resignation to co-workers and clients on Thursday. This morning, he was asked to leave the premises, which is standard operating procedure for IT departures.
3) By suing us, he'll hurt the entire company, including his former co-workers. The second he threatened to hurt my livelihood by making ridiculous demands, he lost all respect in my eyes. I've got no problem with him wanting to be paid for his last week of work, but to dangle legal action over our heads if he doesn't get it within a moronically-short timeframe not set by the company makes it personal. He should get his final paycheck, and then he should stay the fuck away from our company, and from me.
Funny how I can go from having total sympathy for someone to thinking they're a total fuckhead in one day.
