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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 




----- Original Message -----

From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 5:22:57 PM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Employee Handling 

When you have a conversation with her, does she struggle to look you in 
the eye? Reason I ask is that she "might" be on the spectrum. Some of 
the people on the spectrun can be amazingly detail oriented, and can 
perform jobs that would bore a "normal" person out of their gourd. They 
can be ideally suited to detail-oriented work, but they can also have 
limited social skills, and they can get really upset when presented with 
a change in plans. 


bp 
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> 

On 7/28/2021 10:32 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote: 
> I've got a situation and looking for advice on how to best handle it. 
> 
> I have an employee who is very detail oriented and does a great job of 
> organizing things and keeping scheduling running smoothly for the most 
> part. 
> 
> However, at times she has expressed that she feels overwhelmed if 
> there are too many leads coming in and trying to keep them straight - 
> so as a result at times we have deployed slower than I would like. 
> 
> We really should hire an additional customer service person, but two 
> people we've had have left because of her attitude towards them (she 
> can be blunt, and at times has mood swings). 
> 
> She basically runs our billing and customer service departments, and 
> I've given her authority to do that, but when I make suggestions on 
> things we should or shouldn't be doing she gets very upset about it. 
> 
> Right now we're working on some expansion projects and she has 
> expressed various concerns/reasons we shouldn't do things that I think 
> we should do. 
> 
> I hesitate to throw out the baby with the bath water, but the behavior 
> needs to change and thus far I've been unsuccessful at changing this 
> behavior. 
> 
> I plan to have a frank conversation with her in the next few days, but 
> I'm curious to hear thoughts from others on something like this. How 
> do I best allow autonomy of the department she's managing while also 
> keeping in mind I sign the paychecks. 
> 

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