Have you ever watched someone get "drummed out" of their job at work?

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Have you ever watched someone get " Drumed out of their job at work?
 
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I had the audacity to develop cancer, and after extened treatment, they demanded that I return to full duty (emergency responder - 10 hour shifts) or be terminated. I worked one additional month and retired early, losing 40% of my pay and all of my benefits. But, God provides.
 
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Have you ever watched someone get " Drummed out of their job at work?
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Oh, yes, more than once. The American workplace can be a pit of vipers.

I am all in favor of organized labor, collective bargaining, and workplace rights guaranteed even by state and federal laws. And that should extend to such things as constructive termination, workplace bullying, fostering a hostile environment, giving people work they cannot do, in amounts they cannot possibly get done, cutting staff to the bare bone, and so on. The Church needs to be invoking Catholic social principles, as well as the Golden Rule, in speaking out against unjust, unfair, and abusive employers and work environments. And people need to be boycotting companies that engage in these practices.

I was inspired recently by reading Mario Savio’s “bodies upon the gears” speech.

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It happens all the time. Lots of sneaky, devious, malicious, evil people out there. They’ll have to eventually meet and answer to their maker like all of us.
 
No, and that’s odd, because I spent 22 years in a U.S. government agency where, when you were terminated, you were terminated right the heck NOW!.

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Daughter was stuck with an abusive leader who was incompetent. Daughter stepped off the merry go round, went to work everyday and did her job, made those around her better.

I love JP2’s saying: “Evil devours itself”. It doesn’t need our participation.
 
I’m sorry that happened. Do you not live in a union state? Here that would never fly.
 
Yes. There used to be a Quaker guy who came to my workplace. I’m not sure how long he lasted-- a month? two months? three months? Everyone was cool that he was a Quaker going in---- but had a tremendous amount of trouble dealing with the reality of his gentleness/humility/submissiveness/passivity. And I’m like, “Yeah? He told you this up-front, and you hired him, so roll with it. What did you expect?” But they let him go instead, which I thought was a big injustice to him. 😦

(Yes, I know that it’s wrong to stereotype…)
 
I worked for a doctor’s office and one of the nurses who had worked for them for over twenty years was suddenly deemed an unsatisfactory employee and let go.

She never did anything wrong that we ever found out about it, but she was making more than the rest of us, and those docs were pretty cheap.
 
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I’ve done the firing of that counts.
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I actually had the other staff tell me that I had handled it well when I had to fire someone . . . (and she absolutely had to go go; her misconduct exposed us to a staggering potential liability, cost us a life-changing fee on a case [or would have; it was actually a scam, but as presented an mishandled by her, it would have been a seven figure fee], exposed the attorneys in the office to potential professional discipline, and threatened the very existence of the operation . . . )

She kept muttering, “I can’t believe they’re letting me go,” to which I kept replying, “No, you’re being fired for misconduct.”
 
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Yes…being in corporate America is very tough…

At one company I worked at the entire site was closed. At another company my entire department was eliminated (including me of course) except the managers. The thing is the managers knew this was going to happen, so they’d try to get people to quit so they didn’t have to pay benefits, unemployment and severances etc. I got pretty good at not listening to authority and smiling in that job. It was right during the Great Recession…2008, so nobody was seriously hiring a young guy like me.

If more than one person is getting “drummed out” of a job, there is usually something much bigger going on. That is almost a rule.
 
One of the red flags that you’re being targeted for a “drumming out” is that you’re suddenly being micromanaged.
 
I’ve seen people let go. For the most part it was justified…drugs, alcohol, theft. I worked in a union shop and the union worked hard to keep those who should be released from being released often to the detriment of those around them.
 
I have on two occasions, one that of a close friend. It was disturbing to say the least.
 
Yes. It is nasty on so many levels. One of my clients at a renal diaylsis unit had that experience, which was a real eye opener for me.
 
I’ve never been on the receiving end but have had the unpleasant job of terminating several people over the years. It stinks, no matter the circumstances. You’re disrupting the life of the person being terminated as well as the lives of those around them.

I’ve often told the supervisors reporting to me that if they ever reach a point where terminating someone doesn’t make them uncomfortable, they need to do some serious reflecting.
 
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