I had to fire someone today - if you can call it that. This person was a volunteer that did a poor job. I decided to replace her with a paid individual that was going to do better work. While she was volunteering, I compensated her at a 15 dollar per hour rate in her two boys' tuition at my martial arts school. I spoke to her a month ago about my parents to have her stop and even told her that I would continue the discount even though she wasn't working anymore (single mom).

Reasons for terminating her: she had a 50-60% show ratio. She missed a lot. When she did show, she was often not dressed as required (school t-shirt and black slacks). She often would tell students at the school about how she planned on working more and getting paid. This put me in a bad situation of being asked when that was going to happen by instructors that wanted more hours. I had to remove a student a year ago for - I'm being literal here - stalking me. I had papers drawn up and the whole bit. This former volunteer would still regularly hang out with her. It's had for that not to weigh on me heavy since this person invaded my privacy in pretty horrifying ways. While I try not to be a jerk about it, it is hard to put out of my mind that this lady is a bible thumper. I keep my lack of faith to myself at work.

Those things put together, I felt justified asking her to leave a month ago. She denied there being a problem and tried to talk me out of it (who does that?). I was firm about her being done by September. She blew off coming last week. I was more than done.

Last night, she came in and the new person was working the front desk. She made a bit of a scene and left. I don't regret that she is gone, I realize that I probably shouldn't have had her work for me in the first place, and none of those things are what I'm thinking about as intensely at the moment.

I'm thinking about why some people can only leave angry. I'm also curious if anyone else has insight on hiring/ firing?

Sorry about this rambling post... I'm a little bummed.