Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

["Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>]

When I was younger (long, long ago!), I took a job as a Financial Secretary
at a soda company. It was a unionized office, and the President's secretary
was the union rep. There was a 3 month probationary period. During the 3
months I often asked for work from other secretaries, because I like to be
busy, and I like to help. At the end of the 3 months I was let go because
they thought I was trying to make them look bad, despite the Controller
saying I was the best secretary he ever had.

I don't know what is best - an environment where people can be let go at
will, or a unionized environment where, once you are in, you can be as lazy
as you want. I wish there was a fairer way to deal with employees, but at
the end of the day, if a company is like that, they really are doing you a
favour by cutting you loose so you can find something better.

Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, Ontario


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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Downing, David <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>wrote:

> I must confess, the stories in this thread are making me mad. It just
> seems so unfair that a person can be perfectly competent to do the job
> and yet be fired because people don't like the sound of their voice or
> have some other purely subjective problem with their personality. I wish
> people could be judged solely on how well they do their job.
>
> You may remember that I was canned from my library job, and to be fair,
> I wasn't cut out to be a librarian. But I know part of the decision had
> to do with the fact that I kept to myself a lot and didn't mingle enough
> with my co-workers. At one performance review, I was told that, "You
> need to establish more of a rapport with your co-workers," and when the
> library directory gave me the bad news, he said it was partly because,
> "You don't fit into the system here." So I got canned partly for being
> an introvert.
>
> Well, I guess that's how it is in the real world.
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