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What's the dumbest way you've seen someone get fired? (lemmy.autism.place)

submitted 2 weeks ago by VirusMaster3073@lemmy.autism.place to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you think would happen if the C-suite called HR and told them "we're about to announce a downsizing in 2 months, stop hiring people"?

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked for a company that did just that and it was the best way to do it because a lot of people left on their own.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem is that this way, your best people with the most options leave first.
Those you want to keep long enough to do the re-structuring and make the numbers on the books look good, so you can sell the company before it disintegrates completely.

[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Aren't those people also the first to be let go? They're the most expensive and you can maximize short term profits by letting go to expensive employees and hiring on cheap ones.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not always. I think the best people think they WON'T be let go and some others who don't perform, figure they are on the chopping block.

In our case it didn't matter because they wound up having four rounds of layoffs before shutting that location down entirely. So it really wound up being WHEN you were fired, not IF.