So, you've decided to share with us your Best/Worst performance management experience(s).  Whew! What a nightmare! We're glad you lived to tell us the tale! Write on!

Or maybe, you're a voyeur wanting to just read other people's scary performance management stories. Well, that's fine with us. Scroll on down and read away. Chances are though, their stories will remind you of some of your own you've lived through. So, go on, don't be shy, we know you want to tell us alllll about it...

PS: Be sure to tell your colleagues to come see your story posted (we'll hide your name if you like!) at the PEOPLESMARTS.biz EQiP™ Booth #100.

The Prize Up for Grabs!

The prize up for grabs is this sweet 8" Pandigital Customizable Digital Picture Frame ($189.00 value at Costco!). See another version of it below with an alternate cool clear frame that comes with it!

Super Simple Instructions

1. First, read these instructions and then click the "Comments" link to the above right of this section.

2. Be sure to type your full name, title, company, email, phone and address in the comment field (and not just your name and email) so we can contact you if you win as well as give you due credit for your story;

3. Simply share the best of your worst performance management experiences you've had as a supervisor, manager, boss, executive, etc., click "Submit" and we'll post these every few hours at the PEOPLESMARTS.biz and EQiP™ Booth.

4. Then you'll be  entered for the drawing to receive the FREE Digital Photo Frame. What to do now? 1. Tell your colleagues to check out your story at the PEOPLESMARTS.biz EQiP™ Booth and 2. Hope and pray that you're the one to win the prize! Our panel of judges (us) will compare all the entries and will contact you if you're the winner. Thanks for such a great story!

Write on! (Click the Comment link to just below and to the right of this contest's title...)

 


Comments

Randy Isaacs

Thu, 01 May 2008 05:17:15

I had an employee who wore really short skirts. After a little while a couple of the other women who worked with her came to me and said, "You've got to tell her she needs to wear underwear." I asked her direct supervisor to talk with her. She of course asked me how I knew she wasn't wearing any. Luckily for me she handled the delicate situation.

 

J.D.S.

Thu, 01 May 2008 06:13:34

J.D.S.
CEO
Bardos Consulting Group
632 E. 230 N., Suite 100
American Fork,UT
801.787.8014
jonathan@bardos.net

I've actually used the pilot prorgram of EQiP and can say it's been the solution we need that actually delivers compared to the promises we've been given about "solutions" in the past...

This reminds me of the following joke about the programmer who died and in the afterlife was met by St. Peter. Peter gave him the choice to spend eternity in Heaven or Hell. The programmer said, "Well, I usually prefer to get a sample before I make such a big commitment. Can you show me both." Peter agreed. He showed him Heaven with angels, harps and clouds. Then he parted the clouds and they gazed down below to people picnicing, feasting and having a great time. The programmer said, "I'll take Hell--looks a lot funner!" He was then sent to Hell where he burned admist the fire and brimstone. He staggered towards the devil and said, "What happened? The Hell I saw and chose looked much different than this..." The devil replied, "Oh, yeah, that was our demo."

EQiP is no "demo." It's a robust system that is user friendly: for employees and supervisors AND the organization.

 

Dr. J.

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:21:05

I started supervising a P.A. whom the staff really liked. First off, they began to call him Dr. J. which he liked and so he assumed the title with his patients. Then I noticed he was prescribing medications, such as benzodiazapan for clients with a history of alcohol abuse, and he was convinced this was a positive treatment even though there is no evidence to support it. Next he called me in to his office where he had stacks of charts and reported that he was having a hard time keeping up with notes and taking the charts home wasn't helping. Then, a patient's daughter reported that she was concerned he was hitting on her mother and that he had done several house calls and had injected something into her mother. Finally, he was reported to be at a "bi-polar support group" which turned out to be a kegger and he had some marijuana hanging out of his pocket. After he was confronted and requested to take a drug test he discovered who had made the report and made some veiled threats. He was terminated and luckily no one was hurt and no lawsuits filed. He's out of the state and has no license - he's just plain "J".

 

Randy Dow

Thu, 01 May 2008 09:51:21

The Drug and Alcohol Enforcement showed up to arrest woman I was supervising. She came back thinking I had called the police on her, though I hadn't. She accused me of being racist, which anyone who knows me knows is the farthest thing from the truth. It was a mess!

 

Jona Curry

Thu, 01 May 2008 10:04:02

I supervised a nurse once who left the unit when it was discovered someone had a successful suicide. Leaving the program manager alone to cope with the situation and other clients. She didn't understand why that was a problem. She was too upset to stay. We should be more understanding and supportive of her.

 

David Kornfield

Thu, 01 May 2008 10:34:40

I once hired a young woman as my assistant, and it seemed apparent right away that she was having some trouble with her attendance. In the first week, she called in sick two days, the second week, she called to report her mother had been in an accident and missed another two days. In the third week, I reviewed our attendance policy with her and at the end of the day, she called to tell me that she would not be back to work anymore. She had never quit her previous job when she accepted this one, and was trying to work two places to decide which one was better. I, and some other supervisor, were both getting the same deal.

 

Fred

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:06:41

The worst are the ones you go to bat for and then they turn around and screw you.

However, the problem I usually run into most is the employees who think they're doing all the work, all they want to bitch about no one else working and you're the boss and why aren't you doing anything about it...

I don't always handle it as well as I should. I listen first, but if that doesn't work I tell them, "If you don't like it get the f--- out of here...I believe 7-11 is hiring."

 

C.C.

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:21:07

I was program director at a camp serving kids with developmental disabilities. One of the assistant camp counselors just didn't get it. We were at the pool and he was wearing white shorts getting ready to get into the pool. The unit director called him over to tell him, "You need to go change your shorts...those just aren't going to be appropriate." So he went and changed and came back in another pair of white shorts. The unit director told him, "You can't wear white" and eventually had to explain why he couldn't wear white shorts in the pool...

Another summer, this same counselor came in where a bunch of the staff were congregated and he inquired of us, "What do you do if you see a camper walking down the road with a suitcase?" We looked at each other and one of us asked him, "Why, did you see one?" He replied, "Yeah, one was walking down the road..." We had to quickly explain that he needed to go get the camper!

Another story, same camp, same person. He was up doing cabin duty. A while later he came running down the hill in a panic, "Quick! Quick! Quick!There's an emergency! A kid's having a seizure." We ran out to help and the 12-year-old camper in question kept saying, "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!" What hurts?" we asked. Pointing towards his groin he wailed, "Down there! Down there!" With great concern we inquired, "What happening?" He told us, "It keeps going up and down just like a thermometer." We had to explain to the the camper AND to the 19-year-old assistant counselor that he was having an erection and not a penis seizure...

 



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