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In Europe I think it's far less common to be fired in the first place, I actually know zero people that was ever fired (but I'm not saying that it doesn't happe
by tdudzik 4y ago
In Europe I think it's far less common to be fired in the first place, I actually know zero people that was ever fired (but I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, I think it even happened recently at Klarna).
- xyzzyz 4y agoI’ve known dozens of people fired by Google in a mass layoff, when they decided to close one of their offices. The process has stretched for months.
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- mst 4y agoRedundancy is a different matter to firing for cause, and I definitely read 'firing' as meaning the latter. I suspect the fact that some people in this thread read it the way I do, and others (I guess including you?) read 'firing' to include redundancy, is causing a fair amount of confusion / people talking past each other. (I'm not claiming I'm right and you're wrong, btw, just observing a linguistic disconnect)
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoFiring is very common in Europe depending on specific country and it's laws and the industry we're talking about (is it unionized? are the employees easily replaceable? immigration, etc). In Austria it's super easy to fire jobs like white collar tech workers and sales people without any reason as the employee protection laws are very weak (you just have to give them their notice period). At every company I've worked here I've seen people get fired after not meeting their performance goals(PIPs), or even having too slow velocity in Jira's charts, or just some manager having an axe to grind. There's no magic protection aura from the government to save you from getting fired here.