What a Disappointment

Today we had to fire a young engineer.  Or, at least we thought he was an engineer.  Turns out he never got his degree.  We hired him as he was supposedly graduating from college.  While he thought he was about to get his diploma he got a letter telling him his GPA was too low to graduate.  Unfortunately he kept it to himself and started another lie.  Under the guise of taking classes towards a master’s degree, he was really retaking classes to get a better grade to hopefully officially get a degree.  In the year and a half that he worked for us he did pass his E.I. exam but did not officially get a number from NSPE since he had not officially graduated. 

This all came to a point when an opportunity presented itself for him.  A company we often work with needed a young degreed engineer to go to Hawaii for a year and be a construction quality reviewer on-site.  This person would need to go to a class for a week and get a certification, then go live in Hawaii for a year.  We naturally submitted the young engineer with no family for an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.  But that lie he was living wouldn’t let him go.  Unfortunately rather than come clean, his dad came in and spoke to one of the company’s partners. 

It’s a disappointment that he didn’t come to us as soon as he knew about it.  If he would have done that, we would have worked with him then and he would probably still be an employee.  It’s a disappointment that he didn’t accept responsibility for his reality.  If he would have done that, it would have been reflected in his accepting responsibility for his work as this was an obvious problem in his work output.  It’s a disappointment that he can’t go and experience this opportunity.  Sin always costs more than we think it will.  It’s a disappointment that his dad came to us and he didn’t make him face his reality and be responsible for his actions.  This is probably where the problem originates, but he should be responsible for himself, especially at his age.

Yet again I see an application for Jesus in all of our lives.  … What a disappointment.