We hired a girl named Caitlin to take Jill’s shifts. She’s a nice girl and does a good job, but she runs track and field at college and her schedule for practices is changing so we lost her after a few weeks.
Achilles meets this guy Mike. He came into the salon to tan one day. He’s a mountain of a man. Admits to Achilles that he uses steroids to get that huge.
Achilles is chatting with him about the fitness center we’re opening soon and Mike tells him he’s a certified personal trainer. So Achilles hires him to work at the salon, and when the gym opens he can work there.
Perfect. A muscle dude that said he’d be here to run the classes and could make some real income from the personal training. People pay big bucks for that stuff. This is a great opportunity for Mike.
I stop in one Saturday just to escape the heat. I chat a bit with Mike and he seems like a really nice guy. I even spoke to him about a business opportunity I was thinking about and he gave me good advice having had experience in a similar business. So all good.
Everything seems to be going well. We’ve recovered nicely after Trish’s cocaine arrest, Jill’s alcoholic meltdown, and Caitlin’s track re-scheduling.
But two weeks later, Achilles calls me. “I’m going to have to fire, Mike.”
“What happened?”
“He’s stealing money from me.”
“Stealing?”
“Yea. There’s almost no cash transactions on the nights he works and I’m just starting to see a pattern. I don’t think he knows the level at which we can track everything on the computer.”
“Aww dude. I’m sorry. We just can’t catch a break lately.”
“I know. Come in and we’ll have lunch today and figure out what to do.”
The next day when confronted with the crime, of course Mike denied any wrong doing to the point where Achilles almost believed him. But once Achilles dug deeper and examined all of the records in the system there was no doubt in his mind that Mike had been skimming cash from the register.
I hear that steroids are expensive.
Anyway, we fired his thieving ass and banned him from ever coming to the salon again.
Guess who’s working all the shifts everyday for a while?
That’s right! Me. At least Achilles and I know that the people who work here are trustworthy and dependable. Because it’s down to the two of us!
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That truly bites, Charles! Mike would have earned big bucks, legitimately. Keep the faith, and keep your eyes open for a good salonista.
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Yea. We never saw this coming. But stay tuned. We’ll hire some better people, but if you’ve been following this Sun Stories series, we’ve been getting hammered by bad staff lately. I need to find somebody good!
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