The Ultimate Employee Threat
It was not exactly what I expected when I
gave my first appraisal to a member of staff.
As a customer-facing receptionist she was turning business away with her
utterly miserable facial expressions. No
matter what I did to cheer her up, she could never raise even a glimmer of a
smile. There was only one thing for it -
we needed to have an official chat.
This was new to me, so I did my research on
the best way to do this and asked her to come into my office. With guidelines in hand I started the
discussion. I thought our conversation
was going fairly well until like a bolt of lightening she said “I want to
commit suicide.” Horrified and in my
naivety, I tried to get her to tell me what was wrong. She continued with the ways in which she was
considering ending her life.
