A 73 yr old employee is becoming senile and useless. How can we convince the boss he needs to retire the guy?

This guy loses money and paperwork, puts them in wrong places or even in the trash. He once told me he likes to take "as long as possible" to do the job--and takes twice as long as anyone else to do anything. He wrote a note to the Employee Dining Room Mgr complaining that there was no "F-ing bread"! He couldn't get the tills out/tills in to match, and went to the restaurant and accused the cashiers of hiding one of the tills and yelled at them that they were liars--in front of customers! Everyone in our dept has to give him directions all day long. We are disgusted that he is getting paid to do almost nothing. I am the unofficial spokesperson for the rest of my co-workers, and I have explained to the boss many times how much we want him gone, but he's still there. He doesn't need the money, he owns apt buildings and probably gets Social Security and/or military retirement, so why do the rest of us have to do most of the work while he skates along and gets paid for it?

Public Comments

1. If that is generally everyone's opinion - you could all "call in sick" - to make a point. Is he a friend of the boss or something like that?
2. at the end of the day the boss decides who stays and who goes. stop helping the guy at all, send him to your boss with any and all questions or problems he has. if he asks you something just say i don't know.
3. Quit and find another job, that'll teach the boss!
4. While the situation may be irritating to you and your co-workers, it's not your place to tell your boss who to fire. He knows about the situation and chooses not to act on your complaints. That's the end of it. You have done all that could be done, and there is nothing more you can do, except seek other employment if you find the situation intolerable. Otherwise, the person who may end up out of a job is the 'unofficial spokesperson' who doesn't know when to mind her own business.
5. This guy has probably been with your boss so long that he knows where the bodies are buried. You apparently have what we call an "untouchable" there. No matter what he does or doesn't do the boss will not fire him until he starts hurting the bottom line.