How do you tell an employer you can't come to work because of the death of a loved one?
For most businesses it is sufficient to just tell them there was a death and who it is and explain that you will give more information when you return to work but don't feel like discussing it right now."
How to not make it so the person calling me doesn't know I blocked them?
I own an iPhone. I'm a Pizza Delivery Driver and my boss is batshoot crazy. She keeps calling me when I'm on the road delivering pizza which of course it's dangerous and illegal to talk on the phone so I would block her. Problem is, it's too obvious that I block her, because she would hear a ring once and it goes to voicemail. Because of this, she knows I blocked her so when I arrive at the store, she would scream my head off to not block her and that if I keep doing that, she's going to lower my hours because she needs to know where her drivers are. It's not just her. Sometimes my mom will keep calling me when I'm driving as well or in the middle of the night, so there are times when I block her. But again, she knows because it goes to 1 ring and goes to voicemail instead of the usual 5 rings and goes to voicemail. How can I make it so that the people calling me that I blocked, would hear 3 to 5 rings and then goes to voicemail so it's not so obvious.
Should you call a job or speak to the manager in person, if you applied online?
16, applied to mcdonalds online Sunday-should i Call them? ok I've been trying to apply for the past few months with no response in queens ny. Is it because no one looks at online applications? Would it make sense to go in to tell them I applied online or is that completely FUTILE? -where else can i apply?(any grocery stores,fast food,paid internships) This has nothing really to do with national hiring day , just really need a job (not just for shopping) but to help my mom out in any little way I can since my selfish brothers cant -__-
What do you call a person who cannot decide what he is going to do soon?
They can all mean that he is slow to make up his mind except "He is wiggle-waggle" which I've never heard before. "He is indecisive" is the best option- "He is weak-minded" really means that he lacks conviction in his thoughts, that he is easily influenced and isn't good at sticking to principles but you could use it to mean indecisive. "He is wishy-washy" doesn't really mean he is indecisive, it really means more that he is neither one thing or the other, nothing definite. You could also say "He is not sure" or "He doesn't know". "He's not sure" or "He is not sure" is probably the most usual- they mean the same thing- you would use "he's" instead of "he is" if you were writing speech for example, so ""He's not sure," she said. "He said he'd decide later"." or if you were actually speaking yourself because "He is" is more formal. Any time you have "is" after the pronoun he, she or it you can replace the i with an apostrophe to make the sentence less formal- this will help your spoken English sound more natural. You wouldn't say for example "He is not feeling well today" in conversation, you would say "He's not feeling well today". The same applies to: I am- I'm You are- You're We are- We're They are- They're It is- It's He is- He's She is- She's Be careful with it's and its though. "It's" is a contraction of "it is" but you will also see "its" which is possessive meaning the following noun belongs to the pronoun, so if you were talking about, for example, a cat who had got splashed with milk you would say "It's not its fault that the cat got milk on its whiskers"- i.e "It is not its (the cat) fault that the cat got milk on its whiskers".
When should I call about my job application?
I've never had luck with job apps, because I feel bad about calling so much. But I've resolved to be more aggressive with this most recent one I put in (and the place has a sign, saying help wanted). It's for CVS, customer service. I applied online on Sunday evening. It's now 4:30 on a Wednesday where I live- is it appropriate to call now? If so, what should I say? Should I just say straight out to whoever answers, "Hi, my name is _____, I'm just calling to check the status of my application"? Or should I ask for a manager? Thanks for any help.
At what point would you do a "welfare check" on an employee?
I would do the emergency contact route. I once worked with someone who disappeared shortly after starting (I started at the same time as he did) We were a little concerned because the week before his uncle had died suddenly and he both called and emailed the manager to let her know what had happened. She called/emailed a couple of times and he finally admitted he was quitting. Not saying that this is the scenario here, but I hope that the employee is okay. Please let us know what happens.
If you found out that your best employee smoked marijuana on his or her free time, would you fire that employee? Let’s say that you lived in a country where marijuana is illegal. Also, it would dramatically impact the company to lose such a person.
“If you found out that your best employee smoked marijuana on his or her free time, would you fire that employee?” [Let’s say that you lived in a country where marijuana is illegal and discovered that your top performing employee had that drug in his or her system. Also, it would dramatically impact the company to lose such a person. Would you say that the best decision is to fire that person? Why or why not?]My Problem.As an employer, you cannot allow illegal activities on your work floor, so I’d fire any employee engaging in illegal activities. Alcohol and drug use at work cannot be tolerated, and not just because someone’s performance might be linked negatively to the alcohol or drug, but also because an employer is bound to make sure that employees comply to the rules covered by the company insurance. Many insurance companies refuse claims when the employee had caused damage or injury while under the influence.Which is something you have no knowledge about, because whatever an employee does in his free time is their business. You attend everyone on being alcohol and drug free on the work floor, so that if an employee turns out to be under the influence, that’s on their head.And here’s my problem. I live in The Netherlands, where cannabis use is not illegal and I have a prescription from my ophthalmologist to use pharmaceutical cannabis as medication for my therapy resistant glaucoma. I’ve been denied further disability benefits because the government decided that I can still work. Except that I can’t, beccause I cannot hid my cannabis use from my employer. And even if my particular use does not affect my judgment, I’d be uninsured as an employee ‘under the influence of a narcotic drug’. So I can only imagine how they’d respond to a claim where the employee was under the influence of an illegal drug.
Do maids (e.g. housekeepers, live-in helpers, servants) call you by your first name or by “Sir” or “Madam”? If neither, then what do they call you?
I am answering this anonymously to protect the privacy of our helper.As a background, maids are generally referred to as helpers in my generation in Singapore. I grew up in working class family and so we never had a helper at home. When I had to work after my maternity leave, we sent our son to a creche (day care facility) where he was always sick and finally caught bronchitis. Desperate, we hired a helper based on resume found at the maid agency.Our helper:-calls me ma'am and my hubby "Sir". I worked in India for a year and had staff older than me who insisted on calling me Madam so it was not so much of a shock to me as it would otherwise be. My hubby who grew up in India takes it really well ;p. Sometimes, I think he would be happy if I call him "Sir' too.- I put a firm stop to even teasing my son by calling him "Small Sir". He calls her "Tita" which is auntie in tagalog and she calls him by his name.- now my mom adores my helper (who is a wonderful person) and calls her "beta" which is a term of endearment in Hindi for your daughter.- My nieces and nephews call her "Tita" since my son does.We:- call her by name as she is younger than us.- know the names of her kids so address them by name.- and call her hubby " macho gwapito" when we talk to her. She:- shares our toiletries, utensils,appliances, food and gets usage of my laptop when she likes though we have not been able to buy her one as yet.- and has all the gossip in the neighbourhood and from my son's preschool - which is interesting for me :-).- hopes to work with us for 4 years more and start a pig farm for her hubby in the Philipines soon.