EP 71 Employee Discipline for Small Business in the Empty Red Seat
From The HR Life Podcast · 1:32:35
Show by Tony Benjamin
The Red Seat is empty again, so Steve opens with the story of waiting twelve hours in line at Wrigley Field during the 2016 World Series and somehow landing ten rows behind home plate, right next to Javy Baez's family, while his wife and Javy's mom chatted like old friends. Tony counters with a Steelers stadium tour where the only rule anyone enforced was don't touch the grass. Then the guys roll up their sleeves for an episode on how to properly give employee discipline. This episode is a crash course in doing discipline right: why the best verbal warning never uses the words "verbal warning," why every manager needs a notebook (Tony could not remember what to call it, and Steve could not stop helping), and how an AI bot might spot a pattern before a lawyer does. Tony shares a game called Bet Your Life that could end with the manager getting written up instead of the employee. Steve lists the five offenses that can justify skipping straight to termination. Why does half of Reddit think a PIP means you are already halfway out the door, and are they right? Does an employee's signature mean they agree with the write-up? And is "we're an at-will state" the legal force field so many managers think it is? Stick around to the very end, too. Tony shared the secret to life, and Steve missed the whole thing. Download a sample Disciplinary form at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F99mk1JfoKScGea7wMlFhmboNlr-oLVh?usp=sharingLearn more about Fantastic Tony Benjamin at: https://www.thegrangellc.com/Learn more about Steven "Big Deal" Smith at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/Learn more about the Books mentioned on the podcast at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/hr-life-podcastLearn more about Dyno Outfitters at: https://www.utahviaferrata.com/Learn more about MegastarHR at: https://www.megastarhr.com/Learn more about Pucks for Autism at: https://www.pucksforautism.com/Learn more about Thrive Life Project at: https://www.thrivelifeproject.org/
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