SCOTT GERBER, CEO OF THE GERBER GROUP
When Ge
er found out血at one ofhis empIoyees was cIocking in his
wife who wasn,t actually showing up until three hours later,血e
COmPany lmmediately fired the employee.
Afterwards, the empIoyee cane in with his father, Who has worked fo
Ge
er for two decades, and the two pleaded for another chance. He
explained that he had a newbom son and that his wife couldn’t leave
for work until he got home. Although it was a tough decision, Ge
e
and his business partn.er decided to give the empIoyee another chance,
mainly because his father had been a loyal empIoyee for so Iong.
“[We] made the decision to [rehire] him,” says Ge
er・ “The decision
was extremely di能cult because we canght him tec血Iically stealing
from the company, and we generally have a zero-tOlerance policy fo
such behavior. But because his father has worked for us for over 20
years, and vouched that his son would never do this agam, We decided
to give him another chance.”
The lesson: Loyalty and longevity still matter at some companies・
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