We have a younger guy hired to do graphics.  He is pretty good.  We have a regular need for graphics design or other.  Seems like a pretty normal thing.

However, as little odd jobs have come up, he was somehow determined to be lower on the totem pole and allocated for these jobs.  Not graphics or even computer stuff – put a chair together for a new developer, put up office panels for the new COO, put the coffee cups into the dishwasher, put up whiteboards in some of the offices.  It’s not like any of the people that were getting these things done were handicapped.

Then there were the ‘computer’ tasks as well: gather all the emails we recieve from a client and look for any emails that were not recieved, manually perform some programming step a few hundred times to determine what the error was, evaluate a list of 100K names for duplicates.

He has been here 10 months and just gave notice that he is quitting and going back to live with his mother.  Think about it, when you were 25 how bad would things have to be to agree to move back home with mom?

I wonder if Employee Abuse is a punishable crime.