when your co worker gets fired ( or job eliminated )
You forgot to mention the grieving/sadness that some employees may feel when their co-worker has left.it makes no difference weather or not they were fired/job eliminated because of economy/laid off. It feels like a death has occured, it makes no huge difference knowing ahead of time that this was to happen.The shock adn disbelief are still there.In a small office when personal attachments are made and one of our "extended family members who we have worked with well for 8 hrs or more a day" for a long time is now gone.How do you deal with the sadness/Grief/loss? It's like a death in the office,a void, a loss.
Valerie
of CA
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May 12, 2009 19:57:08 PM
Required Reading!
I can't express enough how much I would love to print this off and distribute it to my employees. While my company doesn't have a huge turnover rate, we're very careful about dealing with disciplinary action, so the individual's co-workers are often left wondering what happened with very little context. Rightly so, of course, but I wish more entry level folks understood the delicate balancing game that has to be played when someone has to be let go.
Shinsei
of MN
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Feb 15, 2009 21:05:17 PM
Excellent Points
If the termination is a layoff, managers should be clear about whether there are more to come. If it's not, then while you didn't see it coming, your terminated co-worker should have seen the writing on the wall a long time ago.
Valerie of CA @ May 12, 2009 19:57:08 PM
Shinsei of MN @ Feb 15, 2009 21:05:17 PM
Evil HR Lady of PA @ Feb 10, 2009 08:15:19 AM
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