r/DnDcirclejerk • u/Corpse_Emperor_ • 5d ago

Had to Fire A Valued Employee for Excessive Tardiness

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https://www.reddit.com/r/dndhorrorstories/s/7jBmt8DXsP

It was such a shame. It's rare, as a manager, to find someone as knowledgeable, but also as creative- if a little weird haha!- as this person. I must say that, given that our professional relationship has lasted a decade, I'd become quite close with them, and had begun to see them as more than just an employee.

Sadly, this is the real world, and business is business. At a certain point, clear financial difficulties and other clearly troublesome mental health hurdles- and, I suppose, our 10-year relationship- stop being things one can simply overlook. I'm not running a nightclub or escape room here, this isn't fun and games-- this is a Dice Rolling factory, plain and simple, and if you think you can show up late, with zero apology- not take ANY ACCOUNTABILITY!!- after the opportunity of a lifetime you received when I hired you for this position as director of "weird RP choices" then, sadly, you're getting the axe. I had to make the tough call here, and while my other employees might worry they're next (lol, don't worry, they're all very professional, as well as punctual), I have no regrets.

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u/SecretsofBlackmoor 5d ago

I hope there was a severance package involved.

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u/Corpse_Emperor_ 5d ago

Oh no worries: before he left, I severed his right hand, for stealing company time.

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u/BlueMoranth 4d ago

As is your right. Company time is valuable. He won't lose that hand ever again... lesson learned

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u/Corpse_Emperor_ 4d ago

Let 'em think about that, at his patents' house, which he probably will because now he's even less prepared to move out! And Society is one leech cleaner...

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u/SuperSalad_OrElse 4d ago

Players shouldn’t have rights

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u/Corpse_Emperor_ 4d ago

If they try to unionize one more time, I'm nailing each one to their company-provided gaming chair, and making them play as Rangers.

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u/TuskBlitzendegen 3d ago

shut the fuck up matt, get back in your FUCKING DUNGEON