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I was recently hired by a dry cleaning company to be a part of their finance team. I have been there since Early September. I had been recommended to this job by the finance controller who I had previously worked with. He had been there since June 2021. I was quite surprised he gave me a text in August saying if I was interested in this job as he hadn't text me in a couple of months. I had worked with him previously at a medical billing company from around July 2020 to about September 2020 when he was let go because he wasn't agreeing with the owner's plans to clean up the finances. The owners never really did clean up their finances as it was still a bit wonky when I left the company in September.

Now you might be wondering why are you going to a job recommended by a guy who you only worked with for two months? Well the guy knew his stuff in accounting, I just thought he got a raw deal since whoever my last company brought in was probably not going to be able to fix the finances because they never fully wanted that. Also my latest company was only five minutes from where I lived. I had been commuting 25 to 40 minutes each way at the previous job. Plus the new owners seemed more transparent about cleaning up their finances and they offered more money and better health benefits. I went from paying 200 dollars a month for a crappy plan to paying like 4 dollars a month for a decent health, vision and dental plan all together. Also I wanted a better opportunity because my previous job wasn't really going anywhere in terms of growth, I felt it was a time for a change.

Anyways I get to this new place and it was pretty decent. However I noticed some odd things about my co-worker and that he was completely unreliable when it came to deadlines. He would always distract himself with other things. I didn't really take a note of this at the previous job because we didn't really have many hard deadlines there. At this job, there were more deadlines as we were trying to get financials ready in order to get funding. He would always set a date but he would almost never follow up with that date. He would take days off, get sick, work from home and never produce much. Currently, they have been waiting for financials from the third quarter for about three weeks now. These financials are the only thing that stand between us and getting like five million dollars of funding. If he didn't get them done by today, then he would probably be fired. He has been with them for almost six months now, so their patience is growing thin.

Now I do help produce these financials but he does a good amount of the work as I more concentrate on the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable side of things as that was I was brought in to do. As Controller, he is supposed to be manging all of the finances but he has just been inconsistent. Now if you are wondering, the owners do like the way I work, so i am not scared of my job being taken away if they were to fire the controller. In fact, they have been talking to me more letting me know of the situation with him. The owner feels kinda bad because he feels that if he lets him go, then he won't get hired again as he has bounced around from job to job. I was told by the owner that in his forty years of work, he has never seen someone as inconsistent as the controller.

Overall it is an awkward situation because the guy that is technically speaking my boss isn't getting the job done. Even if he survives the current situation and gets the financials in, I still feel like his inconsistent nature will continue to keep on going as he doesn't get the concept of deadlines and evenutally he will be let go. It is hard to plan things out with someone who you aren't sure will be there in a couple of weeks.

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Tldr

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Getting fired may be the reality check that guy needs to change career paths.

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Mods working overtime huh.

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SocialistGamer posted...

Mods working overtime huh.

yes we're all working overtime. mod's much more than users combined.
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Honestly, it sounds like the guy is just a bad employee and nobody should feel bad when he gets fired. I can understand giving someone extra chances because you don't think anyone else will put up with them, but there is a level of charity at which point someone is just not learning their lessons and is hurting everyone else.

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you should just tough it out. Try to be patient with the situation

xue1 posted...

you should just tough it out. Try to be patient with the situation

I wasnt planning on leaving.

Squall28 posted...

Getting fired may be the reality check that guy needs to change career paths.

This guy is his early 50s, my owner kinda fears he wont get another because of his inconsistent history. He also has gotten fired before but he doesnt seem to get it.

s0nicfan posted...

Honestly, it sounds like the guy is just a bad employee and nobody should feel bad when he gets fired. I can understand giving someone extra chances because you don't think anyone else will put up with them, but there is a level of charity at which point someone is just not learning their lessons and is hurting everyone else.

I kinda want him fired myself because at that point time, at least we can all move forward instead of having this inconsistent piece that we might get rid of and we might not. I mean he knows his stuff but he needs to put it together because incomplete pieces cant do much

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SauI_Goodman posted...

Tldr