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Overbearing, much? (long)
So this week at work I am training a new employee on register (I work at a grocery store). He is only 15, so he is a bit young, but not so young that his mother should be handling all his work stuff. When he was called about his?availability?and making up his training schedule, he said it was fine. Five minutes later his mother called back with a restricted availability, and also complained about how he wasn't getting his schedule until the Friday before - which is how everyone in the store gets their schedule.?
Yesterday morning, she walked him in to the desk, handed me his lunchbox and asked me where she should pick him up. Dead serious. Then she left and I sent him to the bathroom to put on a uniform shirt and she walked back by and said, "What?! You left him on his own already?!"
?In the afternoon, she showed up 10 minutes early and asked all the managers where he was when she didn't see him on register (he was getting his lunchbox). We punched out and I told him I would see him in the morning at 9 am. She says, "So he is done? He is allowed to leave now?" and I said yes. She looks at him and says, "What do you say to Meagan?" to which he feebly replies, "Thank you Meagan."
?I promptly called my mother and thanked her for not hand-holding me thru my first job or two, even tho I might have wanted her to at the time.... Geez!?
Re: Overbearing, much? (long)
Whoa...time to cut the apron strings, lady!
Generally employers do not look kindly upon meddling families of their employees. If he is old enough to hold a job, she needs to allow the poor kid to be responsible. And, the letting him out of your sight reprimand? If he needs his hand-help through each shift then, he shouldn't be working in the first place.
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