Firing an employee

[Hondo]

Three strikes. Not two strikes. Progressive discipline has to show a pattern and generally courts hold that two times isn't a pattern. I'm not excusing what this buffoon did...not calling at all in nonsense. But there's no way I'm bouncing an otherwise valuable asset out of my company on a two-strike attendance policy violation. Good employees are hard to find. Your job as a manager is to fix this shit, not have to start over from square one with some other ass-clown who may be much worse.