Good evening! I kind of have a gut punch sort of feeling right now. I had a really un-comfortable day at work this morning, something that I had to do, but I didn't really want to do.
I was called into the presidents office and I was asked allot of questions about the performance of another employee. Now, I like this guy, he's a little odd, and you can tell, that he has a slight learning difficulty, but he is very reliable to be at work, punctual, never misses a day, and would do just about anything you ask him to do. But, he was just not cutout for the engineering field, other than just a basic drafter, which we do not use at our firm. He needed constant supervision, had to always re-check his work, and you repeated yourself to him, about how to do the same things, over, and over and over again.
It had gotten to a point, where out of 20 engineers, it was only three of us that would work with him and try to keep him busy. It has just gotten to a point, where something had to give.
Well, needless to say, this afternoon, he was let go....I feel really bad for him. I have reached out to a couple of friends of mine that work at other engineering firms in hopes that something could be there for him....I talked to him alone and told him that things like this happen and it just plain out right stinks. I told him tomorrow is another day, the sun will rise and so shall he.....
I know that it was my report that was the straw that broke the camels back, but, I was honest to my boss as I always am and will be...I gave good points and bad points to him and my summary was that I do not believe in letting someone go, just because. But I felt that our firm was not the right place for him and nor would he ever progress to become a designer. He lacks confidence in himself, needs constant re-assurances, does not follow directions and just does not get what we do.
Agggghhhh, sometimes it stinks to do somethings that you really don't want to do, but you know you have to do it.....Poor guy~