She's Gone ...

Remember that artist in my office that was giving me grief? Well, she's no longer around. Yesterday was her last day and as much I hate to see someone losing their job in times I like these, I must say that everyone in the office is now breathing a huge sigh of relief.

My boss actually decided to give her another month but prior to her termination yesterday, she made everyone go mad and cost the company quite a sum of money since the day I wrote that post complaining about her right up till last Friday where she finally drove my boss to his breaking point.

My boss is not one to lose his temper. I've known him for close to 12 years or so prior to working with him and I've never once seen him get angry. But she managed to really make his blood boil last Friday. I don't know what or how she achieved it but she destroyed our digital printing machine, and it's going to cost the company at least close to RM10,000 minimum to get it fixed! My boss was livid with anger!

And then after screwing it up she just tried to fix it on her own which probably contributed to it breaking down completely without asking for help from any of us and we were all in the office at that time. I first suspected something wrong when she kept walking around aimlessly. I told my boss that I think there's a problem with her and he just told me,

'You go check la, I don't want to see her face'

So, I went and then saw her squatting at our digital printing machine just staring at it. I asked her what was wrong and she said she didn't know. I tried the machine myself and it refused to work and then I told my boss that he has a big huge problem.

Our digital print machine is one of those extremely high end ones that is the main income earner of the company and having the machine not functioning for even a couple of hours is loads of loss revenue. After my boss checked the machine and we called the suppliers who then checked it out and confirmed that we need to do a major repair for it that would cost in the region of RM10,000 or so, my boss almost fainted!

That was when he decided that she has to go. So yesterday he gave her the marching orders. And I know he didn't enjoy having to do it but she has cost us a lot of money that we can hardly afford to waste. This was like the straw that broke the camels back. And in the very own words of my boss,

'Better that she dies than we all die ...'

It might be a coincidence or something but the mood of everyone in the office without her around today is so much better. I can hear singing, laughing and dancing, ok maybe not the dancing part but you all get what I mean, right? But for now, we have to fork out close to RM10,000 and I'd hate being my boss right now.
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