• MakingWork@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    Thanking an employee for joining before termination sounds insincere and odd. I understand it’s to appear polite however I don’t think it should be best practice.

    A more appropriate opening would be “Hi X, I have some difficult news to share.”

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      HR are professional gaslighters, that is literally their job.

      Human Resources.

      You, the human, a resource, for a company.

      Their job is to manage and modify your behavior, as a resource, cattle with feelings.

      …they are literally professional gaslighters.

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      I have had to do the termination not that long ago, it’s not that great for the other side either, thanking them for joining and not avoiding the meeting is mot insincere, it would be way more awkward if the employee would be avoiding the meeting

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        I had someone on my team who we had to let go for not showing up to work, and it took 3 tries to just get him to join the call. For the backstory, he basically didn’t work for ~9 months into the pandemic when we were all working from home. He wasn’t very productive when we’d be in the office, but when WFH, he seemed to only do work when we were on our one on ones, and it got to the point where I had to schedule a 3 hour call every day to motivate him to do work. Eventually he stopped showing up to most of those and was wasn’t getting anything done, and wasn’t fair to everyone else on the team picking up the slack. Sucked for everyone involved.

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    The HR person will get fired if the facial recognition sees her not smiling like that.

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        A quick Google shows that there’s no real evidence of involvement. It seems like Epstein might’ve been trying to arrange for her to be present at a dinner with Gates, like as in him wanting Gates to get her there? Uncertain. I wasn’t particularly rigorous though. I’m not claiming to have strong context.

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          Okay, that’s better… I guess. I’m not in a position to research it right now, so I appreciate that.

          Sounds similar to why Bruce Willis is on the list. He was reached out to but it seems nothing came of it.

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            The files are word searchable and include all sorts of documents including emails (and maybe texts.) So, if two asshole said they were going to see an Ann Hathaway movie after their pedo dinner, she’s show up.

            Also, if someone shows up 2K+ times, they’ll make them president.

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      Have you not had a job, or somehow they’ve never been allowed to fire you? I’m not playing dumb, I may actually be dumb - I just can’t imagine what job doesn’t carry a risk of being fired (except maybe tenured professor)?

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        I’ve been employed for a good 25 years of my life. I’ve either, been too valuable to fire and have had too much knowledge of where the bodies are buried, worked for myself, or worked for my parents company. I did have one normal job once a few years back, for 90 days and then it was a mutual resignation. Ive never really had a boss I’ve ever feared, ive always been on their “team”.

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          Right on! I get this energy as well. Never had anyone “manage” me. Make my own schedule and I project deep roots into everything I touch and improve cutting me loose would be extremely painful.

          I did work somewhere where the COO wanted to can my ass. But they were constantly told I was way to valuable by the rest of the c-suite and cool it. Their problem was I wouldn’t kiss their ass and called them out on dumb ideas.

          I show up to do work, not play politics. Turns out being good at what you do pays off sometimes.