TLOC
Well-Known Member
One window company I worked for had temporary workers. 90 day workers that the union allowed during seasonal rushes. We basically hired them and of 60 maximum we were allowed 5-10 might transition into fulltime union workers. About a week before the 90 days I got the list and had no issue with who we were cutting loose except for 1 girl. I say girl because that what she was, 1st job at 18 her dad was fulltime for 20+ years and she was special needs. A touch slow on a new job but after a few days she would become a dynamo on that job. We had a new French door we were having issues with in the sash department. I put her on the sash machine and along with her direct supervisor walked her through the process. A few days later the engineers were TRYING to adjust the tools when she offered a suggestion. Basically college educated know it all engineers laughed her off. Her supervisor told them to humor him and try her adjustments. They wouldn’t so he called me. As soon as I showed up in the department they decided they had nothing to lose. It worked. She got a bonus that week in her check. But corporate would not let us keep her or even give another extension to her. We had the union rep even though she wasn’t union, her dad and best work friend were there when I Had to tell her she no longer had a job. I wanted to cry along with her when she finally understood she didn’t have a job. That was the absolute worst and unjustified
About 3 months later on the hiring list I spotted her name. I asked HR what happened. The HR person attending her termination meeting offered her an office job at our glass location I had nothing to do with. Something about the request to keep her in production and the written recommendations made HR feel they could use her. Before I left 5 years later she was going to college in the evenings and was moving up the production control department ladder.
