Office drama
I'm currently employed in the legal profession. This office doesn't have many employee's, so its very much like a small town.

We have a book keeper who is currently enrolled in college to become an accountant. It seems that holding a job where you work with checks and balances is great for your resume when you get your degree. So as a student she works part time hours.

Her job entails cashing checks, balancing books, distributing settlements and filing the financial documents. She comes and goes as she please as she needs to do the banking. She regularly leaves work early, thinking the boss has let her get away with it in the past he will continue to let her go on as usual.

Our office has slowed down drastically with this so called recession that people have been talking about here in the States. The book keeper has no other duties than what is described above so with times being slow you can guess that she's hasn’t been burning the candle at either end to get her work done in her part time hours.

The boss is worried with thing's being so slow that he needs to keep a closer eye on office expenditures. He then starts looking at payroll, trying to see where he can lean things up. So he begins monitoring everyone's movements in and out of the office. On the last pay check he notices that she issued herself a payroll check with 18 to 20 hours more than what she actually worked.

But the boss does not fire her, nor does he take her aside and punisher her, no, he takes matters into his own hands by issuing an office memo limiting what hours we will work (with no exceptions unless we call off sick), pointing fingers at her poor job preformance(but in a way that doesn't come right out and say as much) and making her take over receptionist duties every Friday.

Unfortunately, receptionist’s are not allowed to leave work early.

If you can believe it, she's called off sick everyday since the memo.
(BlueChickenNoodles, Sun 27 Jan 2008, 21:19, Reply)