junglecarpet
Well-Known Member
I can see how the managers are cornered I guess you could say and they would be concerned that her state of mind would get worse if she was fired... but maybe she needs MORE help, she might have a personality disorder or something along those lines? From what you have said, she seems to crave attention and by doing all of this, she is getting attentionWe have a woman at work who apparently has mental health issues and she really plays on it cause she knows she can't be fired because of it. She lives closest to work but is late every single day and gets away with it. She regularly takes time off work because she's too tired to come in but then is seen to have been on Facebook until the early hours of the morning.
She was even caught out once posting on Facebook that she had a great time at a comedy club one night but had been too ill to come into work for days before this. When she's late, we often ring her to see if she's ok, and you can tell that she's been asleep but she makes out that she's been 'passed out' but then can turn up at work 40 mins later and is absolutely fine.
This week she was caught out hiding paperwork that hadn't been processed in her desk and she also didn't process some credit card payments that she was reminded to do for 3 days in a row and yet nothing happened to her.
Everyone is getting so jack of her getting away with things and it's causing the office morale to go downhill but the managers are determined to keep her on, why I have no idea cause they have more than enough grounds to fire her. The only thing that they have done is stopped her from ringing in and talking to the staff cause she wants to go on and on about the dramas in her life for up to 40 mins at a time. Now if she's not coming in or is going to be late, she has to ring the managers direct line but she often calls it knowing that the manager doesn't start until 9am so she knows that someone else in the office will answer it.
Whilst I sympathise with anyone with a mental illness (I've suffered from depression for years myself) but it really annoys me when people play on their illness and don't treat others fairly.
Thats just my 2 cents worth