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This week, I worked with a temp worker a had the worst experience with her. She failed to show up to do her duties. Due to this, my boss could not get ahold of her, so all the work was shouldered onto to my team. I had to cover her ass, because she literally took a 15minute shit and could not bother to tell anyone and didn’t show up to a meeting with a client. I tried to cover what she missed and she was dismissive since she said she knew what she was doing because she’s been here since Monday. She missed the following meeting and our boss got fed up and looked gor her himself. It was an embarrassing ordeal since our clients were present.
Within the last week, my clients have told me that she’s made some strange statements in front of them.
So today, she didn’t show up to work, and the work was divided up again on all of us. Uggh
I couldn’t really shake the feeling, so I went down this rabbit hole and looked up her name. Guess what I find? She’s a part time standup comedian. She has made two indirect videos about our company and clients.
What should I do?
I am not the type to ruin someone’s bread and butter, but I’m so mad right now. There’s a lot of things in there is indirectly targeted towards the company. She’s very smart not mention us, but she’s literally wearing the same clothes to work and the timestamps matches up with the days she’s been working.
Update: sorry I forgot to mention, that she was filling in for someone for a week, so she dipped on the last day she was expected to work.
The problem is that she is messing with YOUR bread & butter and her choices to unexpectedly 'disappear' are directly impacting YOUR workload. Choices have consequences, sounds like it's time for her to learn that life lesson. I'd suggest reporting her to HR (if you have an HR dept) or the person who is capable of firing her.
I would share her standup videos with HR, your boss, and your coworkers. As another commenter said, she is messing with YOUR business.
I would go directly to HR, the job market is terrible now. So being able to even get a job is something people should be greatful for. She’s being un professional and off loading her work on to your team, which is unfair. Was she recruited by a recruitment agency or would you have to go direct to your companies HR team?
There are ways to mitigate how HR handles her, if you're close to them. Or maybe just any higher up, someone you have a good relationship with.
If you really don't want to negatively impact her, but also want to get things solved, then start with how great it's been to have her there, from a mentorship position. You like her, she gets along with you, so that'll leave the implication that firing her would be going too far.
Without sinking claws into her reputation, mention that you want to help her, since she has messed up on a few very small things. Be specific.
Then mention that you also found out she does stand up! How cool! But she may have said some personal things, and since she's new and all, maybe it's important for her to just get a warning?
Instead of HR, I'd go to the nearest boss of both of you who you can trust.
Good luck!