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When I graduated I really struggled to find a job. It took 18 months and the first job I got was a small place. I was hired directly by the owner and I had one
by croquemonsieur 3y ago
When I graduated I really struggled to find a job. It took 18 months and the first job I got was a small place. I was hired directly by the owner and I had one colleague. On the last day of the first week, the owner took me to lunch and said, "we are going to fire [the other employee] and you will do his job". I was gobsmacked. I quit when we got back to the office. Fire the other person if you want, but don't make me complicit.
What a shitty way to start my shitty career.
- chalcolithic 3y ago> struggled to find a job. It took 18 months > I quit when we got back to the office. Wow. Just wow.
- sharts 3y agoIntegrity is rare. Wow indeed.
- listenallyall 3y agoGale Boetticher? Unlikely (because he's dead), but... small place, hired directly by the owner, exactly one colleague, told (over a meal) you're going to take over his job.
- croquemonsieur 3y agoNo, I'm afraid not. Sorry.
- jacquesm 3y agoApparently not, but even if you probably shouldn't reveal identities if the OP didn't do it already.
- dullcrisp 3y agoNot the place for deep cuts sadly
- KeplerBoy 3y agoIs it really unethical to replace employees? I'm not invalidating your decision, maybe that owner really was an asshole, but I don't think the move in itself is deplorable.
- SlightlyLeftPad 3y agoI agree, it’s equally likely that the person they were trying fire was an asshole too.
- croquemonsieur 3y agoI've written/read the word asshole so many times, I'm reminded of Spaceballs! But you're right, I didn't know them enough to judge who was in the wrong. I think that was the problem. If he'd just fired the guy without telling me, I'd have been surprised but there wouldn't be anything I could do. Instead, he effectively gave me a choice: stay and someone you barely know loses their job, or leave.
- j-bos 3y agoYeah that is an odd way to handle it, almost like the owner didn't want to fully own their decision.
- croquemonsieur 3y agoI think it was unethical to do it like that, yeah. And you're right I don't know the history between the two of them, so I can't say which was the asshole. But I do think I'd have been an asshole had I stayed after learning that.