My boss recently terminated a colleague of mine, lets call him JJ, because he had enough of his ‘punctuality issues’ or so he says.
What is even funnier that or job allows us to Work From Home during this period of time because it is the World Cup Season and because almost everyone in our department watches football, my boss approved of this arrangement just for this one month.
His only condition is that we all gather on Zoom at 10am everyday for a short briefing before we go on to work on our respective tasks for the day.
Ever since the first day of the World Cup, JJ has not attended any of the meetings and would wake up as late as 2pm on certain days and only start working at around 3pm.
He would often apologise to all of us saying that he overslept or come up with some excuse that he is feeling unwell or something last minute cropped up etc.
This made our whole team unable to function properly and affected our productivity as what we do is reliant on each other’s effort and because of that, we had missed a lot of important deadlines.
He would also go missing in action when we asked him for something or needed him to do something and only reply at 6pm when the first World Cup game started.
In actual fact, we all know that he dozed off again due to watching every game of the World Cup.
We know this because he can update our group chats whenever something ‘major’ happened in certain games which start as late as 3am.
I think he really deserves to get the sack.
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