RINN & ME .................. 6

5^th Sep’2016

Sultan was very fond of perfume and most of the days he used to wear one or the other perfume for work. The rub off effect was noticed on RINN too who also started using perfume regularly. As RINN had been coming early and leaving work early her salary including Over Time had hit the roof.

She also started arriving to factory on Saturdays to factory on some pretext or the other to be around Sultan who was present on Saturdays for some or the other maintenance work. This too proved a boon for RINN to get more over time and more salary.

With the removal of her from Team Leader position she  still  managed to clock in long hours on account of her position in China machine.  This high level of salary had got into her head and she started neglecting her work and people surrounding her. It had gone to such an extent that she started neglecting all Indians and their greetings too!

Sulatn had got the scent of the impending disciplinary actions against him and started behaving more carefully. But RINN on the other hand become delinquent.

The show down took place on the day of V inyak Chathurthi which for South Indians an important festival. RINN and one of the packing girls were served show cause notice by HR head the previous day. They were called to the director’s chamber and told that they would be sacked.

There was a big drama in HR Manager’s room. RINN was a bit calm and composed. But the other girl proved to be too weak and fell at our feet and profusely apology. By then RINN had also started crying and folding her hands begging for clemency.

Our Director was moved. Then we agreed to serve them final warning to both of them and retain them in job. I put a rider that she would no longer work in China machine and she would be moved from there. She had no choice and had to agree.

Sultan had a meeting with all of us Director, HR head, me & RINN. But he was so stubborn and never agreed to any misdeed either inside the factory or outside. Despite stating that RINN had confided and given a written statement he was so stubborn and stated that RINN was telling lies. But for a friendship on face book they have no other connection what so ever.

RINN in front of all the team inside the HR manager’s room thanked me so profusely expressing her gratitude. I told her that by proving to be a worthy employee following the foot- steps of some of the successful role mod. She agreed to do so.

We had no choice other than retaining Sultan with a warning and a fresh probation for six month. But his colleague play boy who by then had made the other girl pregnant had an unceremonious sacking on the same week. This proved to be big shock for the Indian team and they all became extra careful in dealing with local Malagasy work force.

                                      To be concluded………….