Honesty

Some of you will remember the post about the Shift-Changer.

An employee of the business the Headmaster manages altered the schedule, giving herself more hours at higher wages, and giving a co-worker fewer hours.

Yesterday she shifted the schedule again. This time she just posted the new schedule as though it was the original, and tried to bluff her way through it. She really only shifted her own schedule so that she came in just a couple hours later, but she fiddled and diddled with other people's hours, too, creating a difficult week for the Headmaster.

Today the shift-changer was fired. The very, very sad thing about this is that she didn't need to force things to this point. Had simply penned in her desired schedule change, the Headmaster would have done his best to work with her. Instead, she attepted deception and deceit.

Tonight I met the infant relative of another former employee of the Headmaster's. The former employee claimed to really need and want that job so she could get custody of that child. The Headmaster was sympathetic, and worked with her to keep her employed, even though she let him down a few times. She didn't show up to work one day. Later, somebody called in for her and said she was at the doctor's. In fact, she was in police custody for a minor scuffle with the law. She didn't lose her job because she'd had a bit of trouble with the police. She lost her job because she lied. If she'd only been honest, the Headmaster would have worked with her yet again, trying to keep her employed.

Lying to your boss is not the best way to keep a job, kids.