I own a small adult call center (1-900 lines) and my main guy, my protege if you will was moving up really fast. After the first month I promoted him to floor manager and eventually became my right hand man and office manager. He was getting paid a very good base salary of $60k a year with incentives out the ass. All in all, he was clearing close to $100k a year. He is 32 years old with a wife and two beautiful girls.
Then came World of Warcrack!
He would come in to work in a daze and almost always late because of the lack of sleep from the night before. If any of you have ever worked in a call center then you know that its a high energy place with a lot of stuff always going on. There were even times where I had to drive to his house to get him because he wouldn't answer his phone. When I got there he was unkempt and pretty much in mass disarray. I gave him warning after warning and he just brushed them off and continued to let a fucking video game wreck his life.
Needless to say, I let him go yesterday and it was one of the toughest things I ever had to do. To see someone that young with that much promise ruin a great paying career over a video game is a fucking disgrace! His wife works as a insurance claims specialist making probably $40k a year and they will eventually lose their house, cars, and pretty much everything else.
I feel so guilty for letting him go but what else could I do?!?!? Has anyone else ever encounted something similar to this with their employees or friends? It truly is a tragedy.
Moral of the story...if you have never played World of Warcraft then don't start. Even if you want to buy it "just to see what the hype is about", don't do it! Would you try crack or heroine once to see how it is? That's the first step to addiction.
I feel absolutly fucking horrible!!!!!!!!!!
