Highway Robbery

My sister-in-law experienced a scary incident at work last week. As a manager, she hired an out-of-state employee whom I'll call "John".

"John" was scheduled to begin his new job several weeks ago. However, after missing his start date by several days, my sister-in-law received a call from him stating he was on his way, but his car broke down while driving through Vegas and his start date will have to be delayed by another week.

When "John" did finally show up for work, he came in late. By this time, my sister-in-law was fed up, called him into her office, and was ready to fire "John" on the spot. Instead of going through a simple firing process, "John" got extremely irate and started ranting & raving at her. He refused to leave her office even after she called one of her co-workers to come in to try to convince "John" to leave. I'm not sure why she didn't call Security although I'm not sure if her small company even has a Security department.

This is the part that really gets me...when "John" still didn't leave, HR decided to pay this guy LOTS of MONEY to get him out of their hair and hopefully he won't come back to harm anyone at the company in a future date.

I consider this extreme "highway robbery"!!!

- AV