LOL! Yup. I had one guy that worked for me after several other supervisors couldn’t control his attendance. I simply told him that if he wanted the job then he needed to be on time everyday. If he failed to do this, I told him that I would document every late arrival and that before long he wouldn’t have the job. I never had any issue with him being late again after that. He was a good worker and I told him I would really hate to lose his work knowledge and expertise but the ball was in his court.
When I took a job at Drexel University as the manager of the technical group responsible for the mainframe systems, I inherited a middle-aged black man who had lost a leg to diabetes. He only came into the office once a year, and that was to update his benefit choices at the personnel department.
I was charged with trying to get him engaged so he would show up at work and actually do something. He said he prefers being in the Caribbean all year playing with his steel drum band. I tried giving him made up work that he could do remotely... documenting disaster preparedness plans and things like that. No luck, not interested one bit.
Every year he would simply tell me "there's no way you can fire a handicapped black man in Philadelphia, so I'm not changing". He was right.... we eventually had to pay him off to leave.