Training of New Staff

My company's admin & accounts department is about to leave the company soon for greener pastures. Actually, we were quite surprised that she will be leaving us, but after giving some thoughts and analysis about this, I guess my boss may be partly right. A foreign staff will not havalmost ie the same sense of belonging and may not have a high level of tolerance as us, the locals.

I have since recommended my IRAS volunteer friend, Wendy to join my company. I was quite surprised that my boss had hired her on the spot when she came by for the interview the other day and she started work almost immediately the following week.

I did not expect that she was pretty careless in her work, and her handwriting was pretty horrible. In fact, her carelessness nearly caused my company to lose money. My boss was thinking about whether if she should axe her. I was left wondering if I have made the wrong choice of recommending her to work at my office, since my initial choice did not wish to work in an admin field anymore, even though she has out of a job for quite a period of time already.

I had a heart to heart talk with Wendy, the following day, telling her what my boss thinks about her performance and my boss' plans that she may not be retained if her performance is not up to my boss' expectations. I feel that I was obliged to tell her as I do not wish to be blamed if she lost the job. The last thing I want is to lose a friendship over this.

Let's hope her improvement is sustained and she is able to keep her job at her confirmation period.