Who Will It Be

This week I had a similar conversation on 3 different occasions. It goes like this: Which one of our 3 people who are on their last warning for attendance issues will be fired first? First, I'll list the contenders.

Employee A
Has done a no call/no show twice in two months. Hates his supervisor and vice versa.

Employee B
Has used 5 of his 6 personals days for the year. And it's mid-April. Apparently has constant domestic drama consisting of being apart/together with his wife. Stepbrother (also an employee) calls him every morning to make sure he's awake for work.

Employee C
Has used almost all of his personal days as well. A 15+ year employee. Coworkers say he stays up all night playing video games (despite being 20 years older than me!) and naps in the production area during breaks.

So, who will it be? No fair reading ahead. Pick one now. Got it? Good.

I'd like to run a pool on this at work, but everyone picks the same one- Candidate A. No call/no show is very serious (and stupid). To have 2 in a month is indicative of some sort of serious problem. Rumor has it the person was in jail for some sort of domestic dispute for no call number one. No data yet on no call number two which was Tuesday.

How'd you do? Even if you didn't win, you can see the sort of craziness HR people deal with daily. And yes, we're inclined to run pools, tell each other how stupid you are, etc.