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OMG, Further North, that was extremely brutal! Believe it or not, there are managers who actually enjoy firing people so naturally they will make the experience as humiliating and painful as possible for you, for their own pleasure. Strange but happens.
The lady who was fired last Monday is a good friend of mine. She was infact a unit head, so you'd think they'll do it in more sensitive manner. I mean, getting fired is ugly and it represents failure so I'd assume most of us would prefer it done in some privacy. In her case, "the firing squad" actually walked down to her office, and it's like all of sudden she had the HR VP, her own boss, two other HR staff, and some security guard all crammed up in her office. Apparently it takes a whole panel to deliver the news. She was basically fired in front of her unit since they happen sit in cubicles right outside her office and could easily hear or speculate the whole conversation. Can it get any more humiliating? Oh, they also waited while she gathered her stuff before being escorted by the security guard out of the building. She is now severely depressed since Monday, more because the way she was fired, I believe.
And I agree; what's up with all these fake questions like "how are you feeling?" etc?? In her case, her manager faked some few tears and said "the whole experience is breaking me apart"!! Seriously??
We just had a bunch of layoffs at my place of work. Everyone was let go on Monday morning. Great way to start the week: incredibly hurtful for those who lost their jobs and had to spend the rest of the week trying to deal and figure out what to do next and very demoralizing for those left behind.
If you do it in the morning as far as the employee is concerened it's like thanks for making me get up get dressed and come in here just to get canned, however I guess at the end of teh day it's like why did you make me work a whole day.
I like to cause a scene if and when I'm fired. I've had some good ones over the years...lol
I guess it's true that either way someone will complain but looks like end of the day saves the humiliation of packing infont of everyone. First thing in the morning feels like they just couldn't wait to get rid of you.
I would just want to know as soon as possible. Don't wait until Monday if you can tell me on Friday. You never know what people are doing. Maybe I was planning on buying a new big screen TV that weekend and if I would have known I wouldn't do it.
I personally find firing someone on a Monday at 9am, and having them escorted out of the building at the time when other employees are arriving in the office is brutality at its best.
Gee, you sound like a really compassionate person, why not Friday afternoon, so the poor person doesnt have to waste their time coming in for Monday morning.
Gee, you sound like a really compassionate person, why not Friday afternoon, so the poor person doesnt have to waste their time coming in for Monday morning.
I hope you get coal in your stocking this year.
Sounds to me like they were saying Monday at 9AM is the worst time to fire someone. Not sure why you think that person should get coal in their stocking.
Discharging an employee on a Friday compels that person to stew all weekend -- and can totally ruin weekend plans with emotional turmoil -- instead of being productive about filing for UEI and other aspects of initiating a job search... I think the end of the work day is a good idea so the employee can take the time to gather belongings w/o high visibility.
At my old employer, managers were always advised not to let employees go on Fridays for just the reasons you stated above. At the end of any day, except Friday.
My last job they let me go on a Tuesday, last day of their fiscal year. I think they would have waited a month or so, but I'd let it be known that I needed to know the results of my year-end evaluation ASAP so I could give notice to my landlord if necessary [it had been obvious for the last three or four months that this was happening.] The very next day, they let me go.
As far as time, I liked how they did it, the partner called me into his office around 11 AM, and they arranged things to where it just looked like I was leaving for lunch.
It also helped that I had gathered all of the stuff I'd wanted to take with me weeks before, so it didn't take long for me to get out of there.
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