worker’s girlfriend visits him at work every single day
A reader writes:
I handle a small unbiased enterprise. We not too long ago introduced on a younger new rent, “Jim.” There are normally solely three of us working. Jim’s girlfriend works from house and has been coming in every single day to deliver him lunch. At first it was fantastic, however they began to be very affectionate in the direction of each other — for instance, kissing a number of occasions, which is extraordinarily audible. One morning they acquired right into a combat, and when she introduced him his lunch they determined to hash their combat out in our workplace.
They by no means do that in entrance of shoppers, however I lastly put my foot down and requested him to not deliver private arguments into the workspace and to restrict his affection along with his girlfriend. His reply was that he’s a human being and he doesn’t have sufficient time when he will get house to work issues out. His resolution to the love is that he and his girlfriend stroll exterior. He doesn’t get a lunch break as a result of he needs to be on the premises because of laws, so he’s on the clock after they go exterior, normally for 15-20 minutes at a time. I’m second-guessing myself since my resolution to confront him didn’t get the purpose throughout.
I reply this query — and two others — over at Inc. at present, the place I’m revisiting letters which have been buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there at present embody:
- Am I flawed for rejecting a candidate due to their electronic mail handle?
- Candidates sending extra workouts we didn’t ask for
