Out with the Old, in with the New
I’m a pretty easy going boss, and I don’t like to fire anyone, but I had to recently. My secretary was a nice person, but she wasn’t that great at her job. She would misplace things, her typing speed was too slow, and she would make a lot of errors. I told her many times that she would have to improve, but she never did. The mistakes that the secretary made also affected the work of the other employees. I had to replace the secretary using corporate secretarial services in Singapore to find a new one.
The secretary had been with the company for a couple of years, and she was much better at her job when she first started working for me. I don’t know what happened to make her worse at her job, but her decline was so noticeable and there was nothing I could do except to …