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Say you hire Troy Hunt to do an audit (security, IG, finance, anything), then repeatedly block them from accessing the information they need. They then email y
by Dayshine 6y ago
Say you hire Troy Hunt to do an audit (security, IG, finance, anything), then repeatedly block them from accessing the information they need.
They then email you saying "I need access to this data to be able to do my job, otherwise there's no point me being here and I should move on to something else"
Another example. You hire a sales person on commission, but then deliberately stall the payment of commissions for cashflow reasons. They say "Look, I'm buying a house in 6 months, so you need to start approving these commissions or I'll need to find another job"
Is your stance that any statement from an employee that a problem with their role is severe enough that they can't do the job they were hired to do, or that the compensation they were promised (whether that is money, career development, publication of papers, etc) is cause for immediate dismissal?
- knorker 6y agoThat's not quite comparable though. More like storming in and demanding "either you give me root access to all systems, and the building to myself, and a promotion, or i quit!" It's a grey area, and I agree there are cases that are not de facto resignations. But Gebru's demands were absolutely not of the compromising kind. She was effectively demanding dictator powers. And if "i can't do my job if i can't run the company". Well... I guess you can't do you job, then, according to yourself.
- Dayshine 6y agoI just find it strange to focus on the very subjective whether or not the "demands" of an employee are reasonable, rather than the far more objective "Is this an explicit resignation". To the company, every demand is unreasonable... And every negotiation/collective bargaining begins with overstated demands, that's hardly unusual.
- knorker 6y agoSometimes things aren't that grey area in reasonableness and acceptable behavior. I like my comparison in another comment: Having an affair and getting caught is not literally filing for divorce.