Most Companies Let People Go without Ever Saying 'You're Fired'

The Seattle Times ^ | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 | Shirleen Holt

[battlegearboat]

Trump is fried.

[lelio]

Your office was moved to a storage closet.

Or as my boss told me about our upcoming move that instead of my current large office I'll have "an office without doors." I was going to ask if they also call it "short walls" too.

Why companies go for cubes I have no idea. Can barely think with all the noise going on. Maybe I'll wrap it in sound proofing material. Note to self: remember to cut out an air hole.

[kaktuskid]

Better than a toilet stall...

[Hugin]

This means companies don't need a reason to fire someone who isn't protected by Civil Rights laws, certain state statutes or employment contracts.

In other words, striaght white males under 55.

[Mr. Bird]

You're a troublemaker...You've talked badly about the company, are hard to work with, have a bad relationship with your boss or simply don't fit in...You're dispensable

All perfectly good reasons to terminate someone.

Companies usually have a secret list of employees they wouldn't mind losing, as well as a list of those who are indispensable.

This Shapiro lady is clearly a hack. I've consulted companies on such issues for as long as she has and have never encountered any such "list". Sure, managers know who wouldn't be missed if they never showed up again, but "secret lists" are for the tinfoil hat crowd.

My guess is this lady is a friend of the writer and wanted her name out there. "Consultants" need to put food on the table, too, you know.

I also love how she discusses "managing out" as an "art form". Please.

[rebapiper]

My opinion of Trump, he is an over priced PIMP. An now
Verizon is sticking it to their customers by using Trump
to advertise. Verizon the worst phone service, they sock
it to you at both ends, you get charge for calls you make
and you get charge for call that the other person makes.

[freebird5850]

Read the book "Cubicle Warfare"

[IYAS9YAS]

Yeah, but at least a toilet stall has a door.

[mtbopfuyn]

Nearly 100 lines of 'you're screwed' but only 10 lines of nothing more than 'kiss up to your boss'. Whatever.

[meowmeow]

This means companies don't need a reason to fire someone who isn't protected by Civil Rights laws, certain state statutes or employment contracts.

In other words, striaght white males under 55.

Darn. That was going to be my comment.

[martin_fierro]

There was an awful, lazy secretary at Mrs. Fierro's office who, after many years there, left to take a secretarial position at another similar company.

Within two weeks she was fired there, and her old job had already been filled.

We've always wondered if that whole thing had been orchestrated somehow.

[martin_fierro]

I have a Les Nessman-style office.

No walls, no door, just taped boundaries on the floor.

[martin_fierro]

Clue One that you've been fired.

[Johnny Gage]

Or the book:

"Fugitive from the Cubicle Police - A Dilbert book"

[Tijeras_Slim]

I have a great interior office. Anyone who wants to get at me has to pass through the Radiation Area around the x-ray machine. Not kidding.

[glorgau]

Instructions on how to identify weasals.

[John123]

had no idea why his employer moved his workstation into the hallway.

Can you hear the drums?

[martin_fierro]

My boss told me this Executive Chair was a perk, but I'm not sure whether I believe him.

[EUPHORIC]

Looks like the cab of a pickup truck belonging to a supervisor I once filled with those things...