(August 11, 2018 at 9:21 am)Brian37 Wrote:(August 11, 2018 at 12:34 am)Joods Wrote: Shit, I would have told them that after 30 days, if it was still at your residence, you serve the right to dispose of it at your leisure. You aren't operating a storage facility so it's their loss.
I am not that mean. I lost an expensive kitchen sanitation book required by the health department. I got fired for it (not the real reason, but I do live in a right to fuck the employee state.) Ended up finding it a couple months later and returned it despite being fired. The real reason they fired me is because I didn't want to move up to cook. It wasn't about the book at all, it was about the greedy owner wanting to save money on labor.
We live in a climate where workers are far too much put under pressure to get things done faster, so I can see him missing it.
It is the Company's property, not the employees. Maybe the company should give the employee the time and resources to slow down so they don't end up in those situations.
It isn't about being mean. It's about holding these people accountable for the company property. If they can't be bothered to come and retrieve their property after a very reasonable 30 day period of time, then it's obviously not important enough for them to worry about.
Can you imagine if you had 10 contractors leaving large items that cluttered up your property, at your residence for more than a month? What if the neighbors decided to report you for unkempt property and you got fined for it? I don't think telling the company that they lose the right to claim their crap if it isn't gone in 30 days, is being mean at all. It's being reasonable.
Furthermore, perhaps some additional employee accountability, such as docking one's pay for misplacing valuable company equipment, would teach employees not to leave a job site until they have done a walk-through to make sure they aren't forgetting anything.
Some people should get a pass in this world, based on certain circumstances. Some shouldn't. If a company is paying you to do a job, that job should include not leaving valuable company property behind. It's called being responsible and it's what we, as adults are expected to be when we get paid for doing a job we are hired to do.
How in the world do we expect the next generation to act responsible if we gloss over important values like personal accountability? Sadly, we are raising a generation of spoiled, entitled brats who think that they don't have to be responsible for anything they do because we bubble wrap their sensitive little feelings so that they aren't traumatized. This has been going on since the 90's and look at how the kids now in their 20's are behaving. Many seem to think that mommy or daddy will come along and clean up the mess because that's how they've been raised to think. I saw a lot of this while I was in beauty school.
In my line of work, I am responsible for bringing certain equipment to the job. Many salons provide a vast majority of the tools needed for a stylist to do the job, but shears and sometimes, clippers, aren't part of that. Can you imagine how long I would stay employed if I constantly forgot my own tools? Or if I was sent to a clients house, and I left expensive tools behind?
I own 4 pairs of shears. Two I got from school, the other two I got after graduation. The newer pairs both cost $600 each. You bet your sweet ass I'm making sure I have all of my tools with me when I leave a place. If I have to hold myself accountable, so should everyone else who has a job.
Look, I get it that things happen sometimes. But 30 days is more than enough time for the company to send someone out to pick up equipment deemed "valuable" and if they don't, you are free to do what you want with is because it's considered to be abandoned property. Some states even have laws about this.
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