I have mentioned an employee who is my age and who has trouble acting like an adult before and the saga continues.
I check and approve all Expense Reports and we have a very solid procedure that details what are considered expenses, what are the limits and etc.
I never have any problems with anyone but with this person. She has exceeded her limit for entertaining customers by about 25% of what is allowable last month. So, I have deducted that amount from the Expense Form and sent it to Accounting.
She has written me several loooong e-mails as to why she did not know the procedure, why the limits are still the same and why, why, why.... All nonsense! I just cannot understand why she has trouble accepting her fault and shut up and move on. She wants me to let go of her mistake. How is that fair to others? How is that fair to my boss?
On top of that, due to a sales goal achievement, a partner has offered to take one person on a weekend trip to a neighboring country. I had offered the trip to another sales person who actually achieved the sales quota but he declined. So, I had offered her the trip and she enthusiastically accepted. Today, I realized that she thought the company would pay the extra expenses. This is a little vacation. It is not like, I am making her go on a mission. How come she can think that, she can expense her extras to the company? I have never seen anyone like her before.
Today she wrote one looooong e-mail to my boss complaining about me. This is a first in 28 years of my career. No one has ever complained about me before. Not that I care. It is just bizarre, that is all.
She also called our assistant and cried (literally cried, folks) on the phone telling her that I was not being fair to her.
My boss, the owner of the company, being fully aware of the situation, sent her a firm message telling her what is what.
I feel like going to Ankara, to the office, grabbing a fistful of money from my purse and throwing it at her! I am so furious! What an idiot!
My boss and I have written those procedures together and for this very reason. I am enforcing these procedures because it is my job and my responsibility to him. He never checks anything after I sign it.
Good grief! she is a handful. I think I'd just email her that while you do not make the company policies, it is your job to make sure they are followed. It's good your boss is on the same page as you. Your boss should again supply her with the policies and make her sign it, then she can't feign ignorance. Some people!
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