I'll keep this as vague as possible, but I am a small business owner and employ a personal assistant 4 days a week She is generally good, but she seems to get sick quite a lot (as in, 2-3 times a month at least- migraine, back pain, exhaustion due to insomnia, heartburn - always something different and usually not a 'visible' condition). She doesn't call in sick, but rather drags herself in with a grimace and does the whole martyred, sick voice thing all day long. I've suggested, many times, that she goes home, take a walk, go for a lie down etc but she always steadfastly refuses, but at the same time manages to make me feel like a horrible slavedriver! I think she gets some sort of perverse pleasure from it...does that make sense? Like I owe her or something.
It's not affecting her performance and she's rarely actually off sick, but I'm fed up of somehow feeling like I'm forcing her to be at work against her will. Don't really know how to approach it either.
She's good at what she does and I do think I'd struggle to find someone quite as efficient and knowledgeable as she is, but my stomach just sinks when I ask how she is, and she says 'well...I'm ok...but...'
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
AIBU?
To have a grumble about my employee
35 replies
InventedThePostItNote · 14/11/2013 20:56
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.