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Genius strikes again /sarcasm
Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:15My genius staff strikes again.
She's going to have to take some prolonged time off, so I told her to prepare the paperwork so that everything is logged into the system.
And she goes "but I don't know how much sick leave I have to take?"
And then she says "I'm asking to take sick leave, not unpaid leave (NPL - no pay leave)."
But the fact remains... she has no more sick leave balance. And annual leave (paid leave) balance. So whatever else she takes for her leave time will be NPL.
And she continues "but I'm not asking for NPL, and I don't know how many days the doctor will give me." We explain again what she has to do - the doctor says to expect a 2-week recovery, she doesn't have enough sick leave balance, so she can only use the remaining balance she has (1 day) and the rest of it NPL. Her first question, "how do you know I only have 1 day left of sick leave?"
erm... coz I know you've taken 3 times sick leave, each time 2 days, and per your contract you have 7 days sick leave?
She's been working here 3 years almost 4 years. I don't understand what she doesn't understand. And more importantly, she is the one actually hired under that project. I'm not even IN that project if you go according to the HR staff list. How do I know the P&P better than her?
Anyway, after much explanation of why the paperwork needs to be prepared and submitted beforehand, and in case she decides to return to work earlier then it's possible to cancel the NPLs that she didn't take.
More, not disputes, but "I don't really know what's going on,"s and when she said, "You know, in Portugal they do it-" and I just had to stop her right there with a "We're in Macau, not Portugal, so no, I don't know how it's done in Portugal."
She submits her paperwork to my assistant. My assistant missed it as well, but when she passed it to me to sign, I looked at the form and said "she has to sign this again, she's signed in pencil."
Assistant calls genius (not) staff again, tells her "you signed with a pencil, please sign with a pen,".... genius (not) replies "impossible, I signed with a pen." I piped in, "let's use a standard pencil eraser and erase over it to see if it goes off," and off the signatures go, and genius (not) still says "but I signed with a pen!"
What else can I say? The fact was there plain to see, the eraser was able to erase her signature. It's not those pilot frixon pens that disappear in heat either (and if it were, they do say to NOT sign anything with that pen, because it disappears in heat).
She thinks that it's such a big thing for her to miss 2 weeks of work. Rather, in true fact, it's making our work easier without her. Big meeting tomorrow and beause she's out so I have to write the minutes. Am I annoyed? Not the tiniest bit, coz it's so much easier to just do it myself.
She's going to have to take some prolonged time off, so I told her to prepare the paperwork so that everything is logged into the system.
And she goes "but I don't know how much sick leave I have to take?"
And then she says "I'm asking to take sick leave, not unpaid leave (NPL - no pay leave)."
But the fact remains... she has no more sick leave balance. And annual leave (paid leave) balance. So whatever else she takes for her leave time will be NPL.
And she continues "but I'm not asking for NPL, and I don't know how many days the doctor will give me." We explain again what she has to do - the doctor says to expect a 2-week recovery, she doesn't have enough sick leave balance, so she can only use the remaining balance she has (1 day) and the rest of it NPL. Her first question, "how do you know I only have 1 day left of sick leave?"
erm... coz I know you've taken 3 times sick leave, each time 2 days, and per your contract you have 7 days sick leave?
She's been working here 3 years almost 4 years. I don't understand what she doesn't understand. And more importantly, she is the one actually hired under that project. I'm not even IN that project if you go according to the HR staff list. How do I know the P&P better than her?
Anyway, after much explanation of why the paperwork needs to be prepared and submitted beforehand, and in case she decides to return to work earlier then it's possible to cancel the NPLs that she didn't take.
More, not disputes, but "I don't really know what's going on,"s and when she said, "You know, in Portugal they do it-" and I just had to stop her right there with a "We're in Macau, not Portugal, so no, I don't know how it's done in Portugal."
She submits her paperwork to my assistant. My assistant missed it as well, but when she passed it to me to sign, I looked at the form and said "she has to sign this again, she's signed in pencil."
Assistant calls genius (not) staff again, tells her "you signed with a pencil, please sign with a pen,".... genius (not) replies "impossible, I signed with a pen." I piped in, "let's use a standard pencil eraser and erase over it to see if it goes off," and off the signatures go, and genius (not) still says "but I signed with a pen!"
What else can I say? The fact was there plain to see, the eraser was able to erase her signature. It's not those pilot frixon pens that disappear in heat either (and if it were, they do say to NOT sign anything with that pen, because it disappears in heat).
She thinks that it's such a big thing for her to miss 2 weeks of work. Rather, in true fact, it's making our work easier without her. Big meeting tomorrow and beause she's out so I have to write the minutes. Am I annoyed? Not the tiniest bit, coz it's so much easier to just do it myself.
