Amen, brother.
Surprising how, in this neighborhood of know-it-alls (to which company
both Al and I surely belong), how few people are prepared to say simply,
"I wasn't there. I don't have access to the primary facts at this time
and, since it is a personnel matter, I probably never will."
Personally, I don't expect we ever will know the inner workings of this
personnel issue. Across America, a worker is fired every 8.6 seconds.
All right, I'm making that statistic up. But some indeterminate number
"X" is true. 95% of the time, "procedures were followed". Does that mean
"justice was done"? Hah; if you think that, you have never been in the
labor market.
Myself, I have fired and I have been fired. Both are part of the great
circle of life. The primary goal for both parties, most of the time, is
to move on in a way that is least injurious to both parties.
Blame-placing in job terminations is like blame-placing in divorces:
sometimes necessary, but seldom desirable. Those who feed the fires of
blame are unlikely to be true friends of either employer or employee;
they turn out to be third parties who are exploiting the situation for
motives of their own.
-- Tony West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/16/2007 12:42:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Everyone treats as gospel the spin that John Fenton was a loose
cannon
employee that was solely respnsible for wrongdoing.
I beg to disagree with the word "everyone."
Many of us reserved judgement on whether there was any wrongdoing at
all, let alone who was responsible.
There was supposed to be an "internal investigation" -- of which
neither the methodology nor the conclusions have been released.
Al Krigman
