The big question is : Time to be a friend or be a boss ?
Ok this is how it goes, I had a friend who worked with me at the same company , I was one of his managers, We have always kept work at work and kept a regular friendship outside of work.. never really mixed the two. we did really well with it for about a year or so..... recently he quit his position to move on to better things, I do wish him well, As his friend I hope he is happy likes it and all that good stuff.. Now to put it into boss issue ... I wasnt happy with the way he left but whatever..
now back to friend mood, I have heard recently that my friend and his wife split up , its a weird situation but thier business , Hope all works out there too.
Boss mood : she calls about his paycheck, I explain it was mailed and what company policy is, she dont like it but nothing I can do about it.. she begins to argue with me about it .. I explain it eally has nothing to do with her , Its his paycheck and if theres a problem he needs to contact management about it, and so on...... At this point she tries to play the friendship card with me ... I wont go there. and so she begins to question my work ethics and my friendship with him all at one time ..... At this point I get ticked and tell her I am done with this conversation and if he needs something to call us... and I hung up.
Friend mood : I understand the problem, but I can not use my friendship with him to break the rules at work, I must follow procedures.. I do appreciate the delimia they maybe having , but I dont want to be involved personally or professionally.
So at this time I feel the best way to deal with everything is to keep it all profesional and have no friendship with him until everything on the work front has ended. And never talk to his wife again cause she truely pissed me off to no ends with the last conversation I had with her.. I feel she has no right to question my work ethic when she cant hold a job to begin with and isnt even workin now, and I also feel she had no right to try to involve my personal relationship into a work problem.
I maybe trying to hard to keep things apart but i feel that it is important to due so.
