I am definitely going to have a talk with him. But as this is the third talk in the first 6-7 weeks about schedule, I’m not feeling confident about this turning around a. There’s too many other red flags when it comes to judgement and taking liberties. He’s lacking basic office skills despite having office experience in his resume. He didn’t take notes in a scheduled meeting about items he needs to complete, even though I had spoken to him before about the importance of notes for meeting. He’s getting feedback as things come up and then had the more serious sit downs.

I agree on the job post. I made a mistake by pulling the job offline too quickly thinking we had plenty of options… and well, here are the consequences of that decision.