Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I Don't Accept Your Resignation

Time for us to eat a little crow. We aren't above correcting ourselves when we're wrong. Judy doesn't fire all of her employees, some of them quit because of the crazy. We ran into a former employee over the weekend, and her quitting story is too good not to share. According to the former employee, Judy has a nasty habit of firing people for three hours. This employee didn't want to deal with that, so she left a resignation letter on Judy's desk, then walked out. She got a phone call from Judy later on in the weekend, saying she wouldn't accept her resignation. I've never heard of such a thing from an employer before. I mean, what's she going to do, send the mob out to drag employees who have quit in to work?

But, don't let the fact that some people don't get fired fool you about Evolution's astronomical turn over rate. The entire staff has turned over since December '08. That's a whole new staff in about 5 months. Sounds like the employee retention policy of not accepting resignations isn't working out so well.

2 comments:

kwheele1 said...

I quit Evolutions and i wrote Judy about when she was planning on sending my check. She wrote back and said that she wasnt going to give me my hard earned money that I earned because she held a grudge against me. I had a very good reason to quit. But no matter what the reason was, legally she has to pay me. How can someone be so heartless as to not pay her employees the money she owes. I only got less than minimum wage anyway.

kwheele1 said...

Judy expected her workers to go out and market themselves which everyone should do anyway but heres the thing...she would call us out of work and tell us to go market without pay and if we didnt we got in trouble. But it gets better...She hired 2 "marketers" one full-time and one part-time. So she pays them to market us and not once did the "marketers" go out and market. I was expected to market with no pay but she can pay a "marketer" Full-time to sit inside and not even market. So heres my advice to her...You need service providers before you hire a "marketer". whats there to market if you dont have anybody to even do the service.