Just to give them the benefit of the doubt, we don't know if this is the first or tenth time this employee was slacking off, or what action (if any) had already

Just to give them the benefit of the doubt, we don't know if this is the first or tenth time this employee was slacking off, or what action (if any) had already taken place to improve things. I can additionally imagine that koheripbal was not privy to any information regarding that employee's performance besides that one thing.