Warning: Rant to ensue

I'm discovering that being a unit manager might not always be as easy as it thus far has proven to be. My most pressing concern at the moment is that my graduate library assistant (GLA), who signed a contract at the beginning of the semester to work 320 hours, did not show up yesterday and is already over an hour late today without calling about either one. The larger issue, though, is that he is 50 hours behind with only 19 days to work the remaining 130 hours of his contract. I knew from the start that he would be out of the country for a week, so I didn't expect to see him last week, and he has assured me that he would have plenty of time to complete his hours after returning, since his classes would be finished by then, but he also assured me that he would be back in my lab by yesterday. I'll give him until this afternoon to show up before I start calling around to see where he is. But I called the administrative office this morning to see what happens if he doesn't complete his required hours, and it is as I expected. If he doesn't complete the hours, they will have to dock his pay check, since they've been paying him based on his working 20 hrs/wk rather than on actual hours worked. Moreover, if he doesn't work at least 50 hours during this last month, he will have to pay the library back. Meh! Somehow I'm going to have to convince this boy to work 7 hour days for the rest of the month. I'd feel so much better about this if he would at least call in to tell me why he is now 1 1/2 hours late for work!