Posted on 06/09/2012 8:11:15 AM PDT by dennisw
He admitted that he was firing the many because of the sin of one. That is not only unchristian, it is bad business to discard good workers because of what another person did.
We forget that big money and Christianity are sometimes in conflict. James 5:1-6:
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
What is more is that “one” caught him doing something wrong and exposed him. I don’t care if that “one” did something wrong in the way he exposed it. The truth was told and the truth hurts.
This aint Jr-Hi where the a class clown makes a smart remark and everyone tee-hees but no one owns up to it. Especially not in this guys company!
He admitted that he failed them by not enforcing the known guidelines in the published employee handbook, and that a course correction was needed, and had been made at his (the boss) level. He may have employees quit because of this but I bet the ones who stay have a clear idea of what the boss expects and will tolerate ass far as e-mail/internet shenanigans on company issues.
Im not speaking to his profit motives or his heart condition. The story was written from the disgruntled worker/liberal rag reports point of view trying to cast him in a bad light and use his "christianity" against him. He may be a total a$$hole to work for and his greed may send him straight to hell, but that is not for his employees, me or you to decide.
If you dont like the working conditions, stand up on your own 2 feet and GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
The employee doesnt get to say how the boss is The Boss. Next thing you know, we will have the inmates running the asylum.
(No comparison to the current political state of any local, state or federal government is implied.)
Some employers still actually put value in loyalty and a good work ethic.
Few will actually pay for it however.
He’s a business owner, he can do what he wants. He should have given them all a good crack to the teeth and a boot in their ass before he sent them out the door. Wanna screw around at work? That’s what you get.
It’s his company. Like the saying goes, unless your name is on the building, you can be replaced. But I think it takes a special kind of brass to bow your head for a prayer calling for reasonable decisions and then summarily can an eighth of the company because you can’t figure out which one of them questioned your personnel decisions.
Hysteria.
That's always a critical element to 'properly' understand these kinds of stories.
“a Oklahoma”
Editors, proof reading, and a few English classes for journalists seem to be a thing of the past.
It would have been more honest for employees to request a meeting with him to answer their business questions about why he was laying off Americans rather than employees overseas and to see if they could do anything to avoid that happening (to make themselves more competitive with the foreign operation). I never mind employees asking for information so they can understand what is going on.
What happened is a few agitators decided they were a wannabe Union shop to try and whip up a protest behind the guy’s back. When he did the math, he was probably losing money keeping the American operation open at all and took the opportunity of the back stabbing to move the whole operation overseas.
Globalism is a rush to the bottom of the globe’s bottom.
I listened to quite a bit of the tape. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the subtext to all of this is an incapable son who inherited the family business from a well-respected parent. See it all the time in my industry.
It sounds like a few people were out of line - or at the very least stupid - but I have a bit of a problem with the martyr talk - I’ve tried so hard to . . . and the I’m firing 25 since no one has come forward. To me, he sounds like a paranoid control freak.
As someone else said, it’s his business. I suspect he won’t have it very long, however, with those management/people skills.
He feels his employees should kiss his arse due to the miserable job market.
He sounds brittle and laying fake claims to Godly wisdom as he fires 25 people. He has way too high an opinion of himself. He could never have built this company though he may have built upon what his parents founded. I read every word and got the impression he is incapable....and what's this about him suing employees? He does not know how to run a workplace
One employee said all he cares about is the bottom line---
'It saddens me in this day and age, and in this economy, that anybody would have the stupidity to not understand an employee contract they've signed,' said Tate in the Journal Record
A former employee speaking to ABC News said that Tate was often 'condescending' during meetings.
'It was a pretty negative working environment, it was all about the bottom line.'
Another employee called their former boss, 'calculating'.
'He thinks he can't be touched because God is on his side, he's got a good business going and no one can really hurt him.
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