If any employees have a problem with their jobs, or the way that they are being treated in the office, they know that they can always come to me for help. I always carefully listen to their problems with an open mind just like I was taught in my sensitivity training here when we had to sit around in a circle and hold hands and not kick anyone in the face or you'd have to sit in time-out. We try to find solutions to what is bothering the employee. Sometimes people need to be transferred to a department where they are a better fit, or sometimes I need to have a talk with one of their co-workers to try to resolve differences and make for a more harmonious work environment.
Here is a picture of my office door, which is always open for my employees to come in and talk to me. Note: When I say the door is always open, I mean that in a figurative sense, not that like my door is actually always physically open.
Very rarely do my employees feel the need to leave the company. This is highly frowned upon in the office, because there is such a shortage of talented people out there and it always hurts to lose someone who is good at what they do. Whenever people do try to leave, we do all we can to convince them to stay. For instance, a couple of months ago Ted in the Processing Department came into my office and submitted his two week notice. I was shocked. Ted had been with the company for over five years and he was one of the hardest workers I had ever had the pleasure of supervising. He almost never needed to be beaten for loafing, and I never needed to fire or murder anyone that worked under him. Since he was such a good employee I had to use my excellent managerial skills to try and keep him with the company. I told him that I respected his decision, and I was impressed that he had the courage to hand deliver his message to me. Then I politely informed him that the only way he was leaving this office was in a body bag.
I called him a gutless prick and let him know that he had brought dishonor to his family and his company, and that it was an insult to me to have to breathe the same air as this traitorous scum. Still, he did not change his mind. I realized that if this treacherous slimebag piece of shit was going to betray me once, he would do it again. He was going over to the competition no matter what, and the only way for me to keep our Processing Department secrets within the company was to dispatch him before he could relay the information to the enemy.
