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What have you seen people lose their jobs for? How to avoid being fired.
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 766930" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I have no problem whatsoever with terminations for drugs, drinking on the job, theft, multiple DUII's, or <em>malicious and intentional </em>dishonesty or falsification of records. The company has every right to hold us to the highest standards of personal behavior, and I dont want to work with thieves or drunks or liars.</p><p> </p><p>What I <em>do</em> have a problem with...is when a person is fired for "dishonesty" for no other reason than they had the best of intentions but were put into an <u>impossible situation and set up to fail</u> by the <em>same</em> management team that then turns around and whacks them for cutting whatever corners were necessary in order to make that impossible situation work.</p><p> </p><p>The perfect example of this is the employee who falsifies delivery records in order to show an impossible number of NDA being delivered by the commit time. The problem <em>originated</em> with managements <em>calculated and intentional decision</em> to overdispatch this employee; but rather than be the "bad guy" and force the problem to be corrected by alowing it to fail, these well-meaning employees will cheat in order to make it work. In many cases they honestly feel that they are doing the right thing by being a "team player", and quite often their management team will do nothing at all to dispel that illusion.... that is, until the s$%t hits the fan and Loss Prevention gets involved. At that point, the employee will be tossed under the bus by the <em>very same people</em> who put him in that situation to begin with!</p><p> </p><p>If a guy is faslifying records in order to increase his bonus or get off at 4:00 every day then by all means fire his ass. But if he is falsifying records for no other reason than the fact that he lacks the backbone to confront his management about an an impossible dispatch situation, then it is hypoctical to fire him while letting off scot-free the very management people who set him up to fail in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 766930, member: 14668"] I have no problem whatsoever with terminations for drugs, drinking on the job, theft, multiple DUII's, or [I]malicious and intentional [/I]dishonesty or falsification of records. The company has every right to hold us to the highest standards of personal behavior, and I dont want to work with thieves or drunks or liars. What I [I]do[/I] have a problem with...is when a person is fired for "dishonesty" for no other reason than they had the best of intentions but were put into an [U]impossible situation and set up to fail[/U] by the [I]same[/I] management team that then turns around and whacks them for cutting whatever corners were necessary in order to make that impossible situation work. The perfect example of this is the employee who falsifies delivery records in order to show an impossible number of NDA being delivered by the commit time. The problem [I]originated[/I] with managements [I]calculated and intentional decision[/I] to overdispatch this employee; but rather than be the "bad guy" and force the problem to be corrected by alowing it to fail, these well-meaning employees will cheat in order to make it work. In many cases they honestly feel that they are doing the right thing by being a "team player", and quite often their management team will do nothing at all to dispel that illusion.... that is, until the s$%t hits the fan and Loss Prevention gets involved. At that point, the employee will be tossed under the bus by the [I]very same people[/I] who put him in that situation to begin with! If a guy is faslifying records in order to increase his bonus or get off at 4:00 every day then by all means fire his ass. But if he is falsifying records for no other reason than the fact that he lacks the backbone to confront his management about an an impossible dispatch situation, then it is hypoctical to fire him while letting off scot-free the very management people who set him up to fail in the first place. [/QUOTE]
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