Edit: forgot to add that we’re in Tennessee.

For context, this employee is someone I work with, and we’re both entry level. But he’s been screwing up, a lot. From what I’ve seen, on Sunday, we had a bunch of price changes and had to redecorate the store for the week, and Sundays are usually the slower days for us and literally no one else was there. I had to help out at another store and the manager had to go to boy scouts with his kids.

Well he didn’t change the prices, or the decorations of the store, instead literally sitting in front of the stickers on his phone for the entire shift, then he stayed 40 minutes past closing not doing anything, when the company would normally be mad if it’s more than 30, and at that point just threw out all of the stickers for the price changes, and there were few of them.

Now he knows he’s in trouble and is constantly trying to get me to take over his shifts when he can by just asking, and today he mentioned that if it was slow, he would leave early.

Even working with him a couple times he’s just flat out hung up the store phone while it was ringing for no reason, then lied to customers without checking our stock to make sure we did or didn’t have what they were looking for, when the items were usually right next to him.

The biggest part of the problem is that this store has sorta gone under in the area and we’re trying our best to bring it back up and get more business in here, but when this guy is doing the exact opposite, idk. I know they’re not gonna flat out fire him, and he’s expressed to me he’s job hunting and plans to go to another job, so he is planning on leaving for sure.

I probably shouldn’t be concerned with it but until further notice it looks like a stalemate and I’m wondering if he does do this, if we could consider it him walking out and at the very least prune a dead limb.