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Advise required on person drinking at work
Hi
Quite a delicate subject, let me fill you in, I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.We also have a hair salon, which we rent out chairs and rooms. We also employ a lady to help run it.
The lady who has the room/floor upstairs does beauty treatments. I’ve just been informed by our employee that this lady is oftern stinking of drink and it’s become quite obvious she’s drunk when she leaves work.
She’s classed as self employed. I’ve got to have a word with her along with the manageress. I want to be supportive but at the same time I have to think of the salon and the other people who rent rooms and chairs, not forgetting the clients.
How do I approach this situation? Help
Denise xx
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4 Replies
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I think you have to be tough and think of the knock on effect for the salon. She may be self employed and renting space from you, but her actions will be having a detrimental effect on the salon as a whole. I would be gentle but firm and explain to her that her actions are unacceptable, and terminate her lease unless she changes her ways. You’re running a business not a charity. You can still be supportive but make it clear that she can not continue in this way. Her actions may well already have had a detrimental affect on the salon never mind in the future. Good luck, it’s not going to be a pleasant task for you. I’ve had similar employee problems in the past which is why I made a conscious decision to restrict my business to myself and Alison working together with no others involved.
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You are correct, you must consider the reputation of the salon and all within it.
This is you now finding it out, how long has it gone on unnoticed by staff till its at breaking point.
Customers will smell it more if she is working over them, and will talk!
I think its good you are trying to be considerate, but its you and those working along side them that will be affected long after they are gone. Not an easy thing i know, but best nipping it in the bud Denise… best of luck! -
I think you have to get rid of her straight away.
She sounds as though she is an alcoholic (which is unfortunate) and couldnt stop even if she wanted to.
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Thank you for all the replies. Just an update.
Last Saturday morning, when the manager came to work, she found the salon door open. The beauty therapist had stopped the night and was asleep up stairs in her room.
We sent her home straight away and took her keys off her, told her to come in on Wednesday. We found two bottles of vodka and some wine bottles when we emptied her bin. ( she normally does this)
We have now let her go, her mother now knows the full extent of what’s going on, so we hope she’ll get some support from her family.
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