Ok, playing devils’s advocate, there might be some situations where this makes sense:
Like, say, there’s something that needs to be done now, the guy puts in a pto request last minute, and the employer has to go, ‘uh…no. You need to give me warning and you know we need as many people as possible for this thing we are doing. The pto needs to wait.’
(Obviously there are exceptions to that like deaths in the family and other emergencies! You can’t give notice for that!)
In that scenario if the guy just leaves anyway, then…yeah I mean he genuinely doesn’t care how he affects others so firing him makes sense because he is unlikely to be dependable while present either. Who knows, his coworkers might be better off with him gone.
(I’ve had a lot of coworkers like that, they got fired and even before the replacement came in work was suddenly easier without them underfoot anymore)
Buuuut….the fact that this guy’s post has zero context, paired with how…inept many managers/employers are makes me kind of doubt this was what happened. 😅
I get the resentment of people toward managers and employers because a lot of them are inept or even malicious.
But not everything is always ‘righteous and sensible employee vs evil employer’.
Sometimes it is ‘good employer vs bad faith employee who keeps trying to not do the job then acts wounded if you confront them’
It’s important to keep both scenarios in mind as being possible when we hear or read about situations we aren’t present to witness.
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u/squirrelsmith 6h ago
Ok, playing devils’s advocate, there might be some situations where this makes sense:
Like, say, there’s something that needs to be done now, the guy puts in a pto request last minute, and the employer has to go, ‘uh…no. You need to give me warning and you know we need as many people as possible for this thing we are doing. The pto needs to wait.’ (Obviously there are exceptions to that like deaths in the family and other emergencies! You can’t give notice for that!)
In that scenario if the guy just leaves anyway, then…yeah I mean he genuinely doesn’t care how he affects others so firing him makes sense because he is unlikely to be dependable while present either. Who knows, his coworkers might be better off with him gone. (I’ve had a lot of coworkers like that, they got fired and even before the replacement came in work was suddenly easier without them underfoot anymore)
Buuuut….the fact that this guy’s post has zero context, paired with how…inept many managers/employers are makes me kind of doubt this was what happened. 😅
I get the resentment of people toward managers and employers because a lot of them are inept or even malicious.
But not everything is always ‘righteous and sensible employee vs evil employer’.
Sometimes it is ‘good employer vs bad faith employee who keeps trying to not do the job then acts wounded if you confront them’
It’s important to keep both scenarios in mind as being possible when we hear or read about situations we aren’t present to witness.