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Regardless of whether you think people should be paid extra for working on a holiday, or whether you think its right that a union is helping this person, what s

Regardless of whether you think people should be paid extra for working on a holiday, or whether you think its right that a union is helping this person, what should be immediately obvious is that firing someone for questioning a policy is completely wrong.

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
It also should be immediately obvious that this is one person's story, with no information from the other side, amongst tens of thousands of employees.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  > It also should be immediately obvious that this is one person's story, with no information from the other side, I had an employee that was an insufferable asshole. Breaking his NDA. Not doing good work. Late. Running a scam raffle “for” his sick kid. Etc. We fired him for the first reason we could that wouldn’t get us a lawsuit. He runs around to this day bad-mouthing us because we fire people for the tiniest of infractions. It was a lot easier to prove he damaged company property than it was to fight a year for three lawsuit that involved patent and NDA laws. Not saying that is what happened here, because I don’t know. Just a totally unrelated anecdote.
brandmeyer 5y ago
Depends. In other reports, she has admitted that they way she questioned the policy was by cussing out her supervisor. She had been on the job for less than two weeks. Given those additional facts, I don't have very much sympathy for her position.
- sokoloff 5y ago
  Given that, I don’t know if it’s the first but I strongly suspect this is not the last time she’ll suffer such an “injustice”.
  - samhw 5y ago
    100%. This reminds me of the Google AI kerfuffle with whatshername. For a certain kind of person, "I just questioned company policy" tends to mean "I was an insufferable sanctimonious raging asshole to everyone involved, because of my unyielding certainty in my own righteousness, and then I was absolutely shocked to my core at my employer firing someone who burned more bridges than Scipio sacking Carthage".

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago

It also should be immediately obvious that this is one person's story, with no information from the other side, amongst tens of thousands of employees.

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
> It also should be immediately obvious that this is one person's story, with no information from the other side, I had an employee that was an insufferable asshole. Breaking his NDA. Not doing good work. Late. Running a scam raffle “for” his sick kid. Etc. We fired him for the first reason we could that wouldn’t get us a lawsuit. He runs around to this day bad-mouthing us because we fire people for the tiniest of infractions. It was a lot easier to prove he damaged company property than it was to fight a year for three lawsuit that involved patent and NDA laws. Not saying that is what happened here, because I don’t know. Just a totally unrelated anecdote.

brandmeyer 5y ago

Depends. In other reports, she has admitted that they way she questioned the policy was by cussing out her supervisor. She had been on the job for less than two weeks. Given those additional facts, I don't have very much sympathy for her position.

sokoloff 5y ago
Given that, I don’t know if it’s the first but I strongly suspect this is not the last time she’ll suffer such an “injustice”.
- samhw 5y ago
  100%. This reminds me of the Google AI kerfuffle with whatshername. For a certain kind of person, "I just questioned company policy" tends to mean "I was an insufferable sanctimonious raging asshole to everyone involved, because of my unyielding certainty in my own righteousness, and then I was absolutely shocked to my core at my employer firing someone who burned more bridges than Scipio sacking Carthage".