my worker does not wish to come to work when it snows — Ask a Supervisor
my worker doesn’t wish to come to work when it snows
A reader writes:
Final yr certainly one of my workers had attendance issues associated to varied stressors involving members of the family, sickness, automobile hassle, winter climate, and so on. A few of these stressors had been fairly important; others had been the type of factor most of us would energy by means of and deal with after our workday was over. His frequent, last-minute absences or sudden departures midway by means of the workday started to have a detrimental influence on our purchasers. I suggested him that we valued him as an worker, however his ongoing sample of being unavailable to work was affecting the functioning of the group and he would should be at work persistently. His attendance improved instantly and hasn’t been an issue — till now.
As we speak, he emailed me that he won’t make it to work tomorrow due to doable snow within the forecast. Quite a few his absences final yr had been snow-related, for causes akin to “can’t get out of the driveway” and “the snow is too bad to drive in.” Different workers who stay in the identical city got here to work on these days although, which makes me marvel if he’s unusually hesitant to drive in snowy climate.
Everyone knows snow is a part of life right here and we plan for it. We rise up early, shovel ourselves out, go away loads of further time to drive in at a protected velocity after which … we go to work. I don’t anticipate anybody to drive in harmful circumstances, however in routine snowy climate everybody else manages to get right here besides him. Can I inform him that he ought to be making some type of contingency plan so he can get to work within the winter, whether or not it means getting up early to shovel out, hiring a plow service, placing on snow tires, or no matter makes attending to work doable? It appears to me that attending to work in routine winter climate is an affordable expectation.
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:
- My workers end my sentences
- Interviewing with sweaty palms
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