My account here is anonymous. I've seen bosses gang up on a 50 year old employee, seemingly to get rid of him. Where I live it's very hard to fire someone unle

My account here is anonymous. I've seen bosses gang up on a 50 year old employee, seemingly to get rid of him. Where I live it's very hard to fire someone unless you give them three written warnings. This senior 3rd line tech was well on his way with two before he found a better job and quit himself. Both warnings were completely unfounded, but I only remember the details of one. The last one was due to consultants in another office, in another city, registering an internal certificate on a personal e-mail address. So it wasn't renewed and cost the client some revenue in downtime. Since my senior tech was responsible for operations of the environment he got blamed and got a written warning. Now that I think back, the first warning might have been about when he replaced disks in a failed disk array and the array crashed as a result of the replacement. Either way, me and several other younger techs got the impression that they were trying to get rid of old blood and get new blood in. We work for a very large telco concern where employee numbers are regulated from the top. So you can't hire anyone new unless someone old quits. Or unless the mother company approves expansion. Edit: For some perspective, younger techs have made bigger mistakes and gotten off with verbal warnings.