worker’s girlfriend visits him at work day-after-day
A reader writes:
I handle a small unbiased enterprise. We lately introduced on a younger new rent, “Jim.” There are normally solely three of us working. Jim’s girlfriend works from dwelling and has been coming in day-after-day to carry him lunch. At first it was advantageous, however they began to be very affectionate in direction of each other — for instance, kissing a number of occasions, which is extraordinarily audible. One morning they bought right into a struggle, and when she introduced him his lunch they determined to hash their struggle 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 carry private arguments into the workspace and to restrict his affection together with his girlfriend. His reply was that he’s a human being and he doesn’t have sufficient time when he will get dwelling 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 must be on the premises as a result of laws, so he’s on the clock once 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 the moment, the place I’m revisiting letters which have been buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and typically updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there at the moment embody:
- Am I improper for rejecting a candidate due to their e mail deal with?
- Candidates sending further workouts we didn’t ask for