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Why people always react with such contempt for businesses when they fire people? Employees leave their jobs all the time for selfish reasons, and nobody feels s
by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
Why people always react with such contempt for businesses when they fire people? Employees leave their jobs all the time for selfish reasons, and nobody feels sorry for business owners who are often left with difficult problem maintaining the operations without that one person with a specific skill set. Why is it so different the other way around? Class solidarity, because there far more employees than business owners?
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoThat's pretty callous to equate the harm done to a business when one person quits, to the harm done when scores are let go simultaneously. In the 2nd case folks can suffer, often more than a schedule setback or an HR event. Obviously.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoPeople can quit en masse too. When they happens, everyone is talking about 'how horrible that place is'. I believe if you can quit easily, you shouldn't complain of you can be fired with the same ease.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoAgain, callous to equate the two. A person quitting can be a tiny fraction of the workforce for a company, but each person fired it's 100% of their job.
- tikhonj 4y agoThere's an obvious asymmetry in power and impact! Having one of X employees leave is absolutely nothing like losing your one of one job. A closer analog would be when a business stops working with a consultant who has other clients; nobody seriously sees that as a problem.
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