I got a Kramer

Have you ever had one of those employees that just don't leave. Now this fella in my office was fired like 3 three weeks ago. We sat him down, told him "it wasn't working" and wished him luck . I just came back to the office after a trip to see him sitting in the reception. Folks in our office said, "he keeps coming back....we really don't know what to do." At first I laughed, then I saw that he keeps arranging meetings with some folks in the office for lunch and stuff.

Truth be told, I never liked him. It wasn't the two toned shirts (you know the aweful Michael Gekko, blue shirts with the white collar and white cuffs that every greaseball bond salesman wears), it wasn't even the aweful toupe/mullet...like someone took a mongoose and smashed it atop his head so that the tail flushes neatly down the back of his aweful shirt....nor was it the "yeah I know them.." mantra. You could mention a firm or a person, and this dude would say "yeah I know them".....He definitely didn't "know" his ass from his elbow. Nor was it his need to say something in every meeting, no matter how absurd or wrong it might be. He did that aplenty and after a while you can ignore the guy. What got to me was his incessant need to make bad judgments....times and places where a simple no call would be ok...he took it upon himself to raise the bar for gross incompetence. It was almost as if he hadn't worked in finance or marketing at all....like he hadn't even heard the words. It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer got fired.




I just received a memo where one of my partners wants to see if this guy can do something else within our firm. We all know the answer will be NO, but I want to hear the logic for hiring someone who was fired just 3 weeks ago.