Backbone

Boss may be growing a backbone. Hooray!

In the past she allowed a certain employee to make up days when he was "sick." A couple of times she also allowed him to use vacation days when he didn't want to work. (Vacation days are supposed to be approved AHEAD of time, not after you didn't show up for work.) In essence, he set his own schedule.

This time, we had to work short-handed because he didn't show up and we didn't need him any other days. (He called 2 hours after he was scheduled to work, saying that he was in another city and didn't have transportation to get back.) He tried to take a vacation day for the missed shift, but Boss said no. Vacation has to be approved AHEAD of time, not after the fact.

The nephew's friend is also being disciplined, after his millionth time of being late/not showing up for work OR calling/leaving the store while he's on the clock.