Recruitment
I did some interviews with the geography graduates - looking for those who can help take our publications forward - but they tend to be like advice sessions - as quality is not well held up by that department. One of them - Senarathne - was good - so we may check her out.
Yoosuf Razi is a relative - I don't know him that well as I don't know the young people in the family but know his mother - but given the problem we have with sudden departures and his abilities in English and Physics and fact that he can walk to the office. After a lot of thought, I thought we have to compromise. When we took the 2nd twin two years back, we sent him to Digana - that sort of thing is not feasible anymore. taking Akurana folks is also risky - we have learned.
I have advised Yoosuf about not behaving like a relative or like a Akurana guy - he is a bit of a geek and very gentle - so think we can manage. Let me know your feedback - I can also ask if he works out of his place so that there are no issues.
Departures without Notice
The manner in which Asela has given notice and the fact that I did not get any indication of his applying elsewhere or discontent here - is something that you want to reflect on?
He basically used us - and the value of his work would have come out in the next months because it was mostly training and also the work on the App. We cannot use the latter in any case.
What happened there - there is more to this but what is clear
- he thinks it is the norm after KW and ZA left
- the office did not have senior staff attendance for reasons which are mostly legit - but should be avoided.
- supervision of him may have been too distributed.
When people leave - others tend to think that they do not pay a price for leaving early -
we don't have very ethical or moral staff members sadly - and that is really ugly that so early they
have not gratitude or consideration for the damage they do.
The tune they sing is
- forced to do so due to external reasons - usually false
- they will finish the tasks and support FECT after they leave - never happens.
Do we have a full list of those who left lately - of course some did terrible things
- Shifna,
- Janan
- Mahasen
- Chayana
We need to maintain a black list.
In the case of those who leave without consultation and break their contract
- we shall not issue any letter to them
- we shall let the institution of the Internships know immediately - and we shall not certify
any work they have done
- we shall insist that they pay the penalty of one month of salary - in the case of AR - we shall not pay his last month.
In the case of AR - let him leave first before we follow up on this or let him know of the above - we need to take over his email account and archive first. Don't try to get him to stay.
