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Difficult to comment on with these light details, but is firing also poor treatment? Sometimes companies need to fire, for whatever reasons. I think it is good
by repomies691 11y ago
Difficult to comment on with these light details, but is firing also poor treatment? Sometimes companies need to fire, for whatever reasons. I think it is good if some other role is offered instead.
"His tactic for firing the senior developer was to make the senior developer role redundant"
How do you make a role redundant? Usually it is about what the business needs, the people inside the company don't make roles needed or redundant, but the business and how it develops defines the needs for varying roles. For example, if customers suddenly stop buying and decide to go ellewhere, everyone inside the company can be considered redundant.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoUm no in theory its the role that is redundant not the person it helps avoid accusations of unfairness in the redundancy process - yes i know that this can and is abused.
- hathym 11y agoputting an employee in a closet in a hope to destroy its moral and force him to quit on his own? poor treatment is a light description IMHO.
- jschwartzi 11y agoI wish I worked in a closet. Then at least I wouldn't have people looking at my screens all day.
- vacri 11y agoUnless the law has changed recently, if you make someone redundant in Australia (where the author is from), you can't fill the role again for 6 months (I think it's 6 mo) - ie: it's illegal to use "the role is redundant now" to fire someone and immediately fill the role again, which includes promotion-from-within. Of all the excuses you can use to fire someone, that one you actually have to mean. Of course, you can work around the law by having the same duties performed by someone with a different (scare-quotes) "role".