Threatened to get fired for a phone call?

What I underlined. Apparently you did not read the first few posts from the o/p, had you done so, you would clearly have read where she was told by the office people that SHE WAS A PEST.>!!

The "man" and I call him a man begrudgingly, WAS IN ORIENTATION, what part of that did you NOT understand?

In orientation, EVERYTHING IS EXPLAINED to the new employee(s).

As a non-employee, she pretty much had no rhyme or reason to butt in during THAT time. As so many of us had said, she could have texted him, or left a voice mail for him to RESPOND to either during a coffee break, lunch break, or back at the motel.

She, the wife in this particular instance was not only wrong, but dead wrong, she (I think) reduced his manhood in such a way, he will never get his man card back again.

With some of YOU guys backing up your wife to call during such a time of importance to a new employee, , makes me question your manhood as well in handling not only yourself, but your family as a whole, not just the wife.

 

Whatever it's just not something normal people do in any industry. It has nothing to do with the "little woman" taking over as some guy put it. You'll continue to do it though until they make good on their threat to fire you lol so good luck.

 

I will agree that the wife had no business calling in while the guy was in orientation. However, this thread has become so diverted from that, (as is usual) That we have folks going off about a spouse EVER calling the other ones employer. That is what my post was referring to.

 

Oh well, looks as though he might have baled on the job and the forum. But, maybe someone else can benefit from the lesson learned here.

I think we can reasonably assume that the company had agreed to reimburse him for a bus ticket or something. That normally means it will show up on the first paycheck, not the next day. Since he was still in orientation, no paycheck due at that time. It's understandable that she may need that money back asap but, mismanagement on their part does not constitute an emergency on the part of the new employer.

I will further assume that the first time she called an office person told her that she/he would have someone call her back . That obviously didn't happen soon enough to suit her so she called back and got a similar answer from possibly another office person. And then, she started getting impatient and gave someone a piece of her mind. The straw that broke the camel's back. Yep, I would surely have called the prospective employee out and given him the facts of life. If she is behaving like that within the tree days of orientation, what will she be like later?

 

Your right , but it's fun to check out these alternate universes once in a while. My wife would never call my employer to snoop on me or rant like a maniac; it would most likely be to ask ordinary info or straighten out a problem and I probably would have told her which person to call. We have nothing to hide from each other and I'm always surprised and a little annoyed when a business calls to get an authorization to let my wife or myself get access to an account because only one of us signed our name when we opened it. In my mind we are each others representative......anything else is just sad.

Enough of this thread.

Except for this........In Cicely ,Alaska all the drivers would quit that day and the entire town would stop doing business with that company because they didn't like the way the guy's wife was being treated.

That's all.

 

I don't know about you, but if I were married, I would protect and defend my wife. You can keep your little trucking job. You obviously need it more than I do since you're a "real driver." My wife would be a much higher priority than ANY employer.

 

The company should allow her to call for anything or get rid of their publicly listed phone. They should understand that some guys cant even boil water without burning it. They have their wife do everything for them. I've known grown men like that. They barely are able to order a subway sandwich without wondering what to put on it. If a wife needs info from the company to keep the homefront on track, she may need to call them.

 

And that's why you are an avg joe. While I am uhh Super!!!

Getter done!!!

 

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