You know...it's true that you cannot treat the hired help too nice. Treat them too nice, and they take you to be a dumb @$$. And certainly, we don't like to be dumb @$$e$. Do we???
H got an email today from the HR department to confirm the overtime hours in our driver's March '08 timesheet. And who does he call to do the checking? Me lah!
As we were away in Hong Kong in the later part of March '08, that was the period that I zoomed-in first. And what do I discover???
LOADS of discrepancies. I mean if you want to curi makan /thau-sik (literally translated to "steal eats"), at least be smarter and be a little more diligent in the dates and hours lah.
Friday, 21 March - Our flight was 9 AM in the morning, and we were already at the airport at about 7 AM, and he would have reached my house at about 9 AM since it was a holiday. That stupid idiot listed his working time as 6 AM till 9 PM!! Can you imagine that? 12 hours EXTRA!!
Saturday, 22 March - Here we are... all drenched to the bone at Hong Kong Disneyland. But our driver claims that he came to work at 5 AM! For H's golf game! (Maybe H has a clone that I don't know about??? Mmmm... imagine two H's servicing me in bed!!! ) Worked soooo hard...till 9 PM wor.
Tuesday, 25 March - We arrived at 8 PM, and he knew that our flight was in the evening. So he probably started off at about 6.30 PM earliest. This fella put the time as 7 AM!
And the upsetting thing is that when H travels, I usually allow him to come to work at 9 AM rather than the usual 7 AM, and I even let him off much earlier....most times at 4 PM. And what did this idiot list as his working hours? 7 AM to 10 PM!
He is taking advantage of H's busy schedule, hoping that H doesn't check his time sheet. Geez... and the worst thing? He is quite a good driver! BLEAH!!!! Get rid of him? And have one that may be worse???
How are we going to reprimand him??? Without firing him? If we get HR to tell him, he'll definitely have to go.
Well, H has found a solution... he's getting his secretary WARN him. She has his detailed schedules (yes...she knows of his whereabouts in more detail than I!!) and she is going to caution him that HR has requested that she checks his TimeSheet, and she has found discrepancies (particularly on those dates that H was away in HK). And if it happens one more time, he will have to go.
If you were in our shoes, what would you have done?
10 comments:
wahliao wei.....
i do get it as he really wants to get more moolah la..so I'd talk to him lor. With honesty and sincerity. Ask him why he want to cheat people...if he's so good, he'll get good bonus mah..no need to cheat ppl.
But then, since got secretary...USe HER LA! hahahahahahahah
Very good idea of your hubby to use the secretary. Hope it will work.
Wah! so blatant. Must be He thinks you company pay nevermind. Just jump on the bandwagon!! He must be rich man - or maybe he has more than one boss, and he has got the times worked confused!!
a warning is good. hey, at the rate he is working, he should be presented most hardworking staff award leh! :P
I would do the same. Get secretary to tell him. Also, tell him if he wasn't happy with his allowance, then he should discuss it with his bosses, not cheat. :-)
ya.. get the secretary to talk to him.. you don't want him to have a grudge against you and family :-) then have a nice chat with him saying that the company has told you that he (the driver) has some discrepancies in his time sheet and advice not to do so again.. hehe
Agree with Mott - USE the secretary!! Must at least make him aware that we not blind blind wan ler.
Wah rao, reminds me of my "streetwise" help back home! Good thing the secretary knows the real log!
Nomadic mom, I hope you're less upset now. I have a "Sweet Smile(s)" tag for you... when you have the time, check it out in my latest post. Maybe posting some happy faces will help cheer you up some?
tough..asking the secretary to tell him would be the best i guess...but then again..they r chi kei yan oso..sigh..
Mott - Definitely wants more moolah, since the basic pay is very little. But not so blatant lah... Yes. Secretary told him liow..but he feigned innocence!
wmd - He feign innocence wor...
SAHM - No. He only works for us. So cannot be getting time confused. He sure thinks company pays so nevermind...but cannot be so blatant lah. Exaggerate in one thing. Totally lying is another leh...
Sweetpea - Some other drivers ...whose bosses like to go karaoke joints etc would clock up more hours lah... so the awards would go to those drivers
Big Pumpkin - Apparently the company's allowance is very good compared to many other companies already. Also don't think negotiable for one driver...since the company has soooooo many drivers.
Sting - I'm sure he knows we know..cause these two days I also fai-see talk too much to him.
kopiSoh - Wei..how are you??
Yeah lah.. he should be smart enough now to do his next timesheet properly.
bp - Thanks for the Happy Tag...I am feeling kinda down these few days...
Laundryamah - Not really ci-kei-yann... different religions.
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