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However, I'd just take the old bird out to lunch and say "Those of us with jobs need to get back to the office. Woah, don't get up so fast there Sally..."
Tell her the reason she is being let go. Let her file unlawful termination law suit. Then when you get fired, file another unlawful termination lawsuit as a whistleblower
Is that REALLY what they told you? "Fire her because she's old!"..........really???? I have a very hard time believing that. But if that is true it scream age discrimination and they're opening themselves up to a lawsuit that any good lawyer would be drooling to take on.
I believe it because it happened to my Mom. They told her she was getting too old and her health insurance premium cost them too much. She was 60.
If you go into a crowded building and shout a question to everyone in listening distance do you honestly think no one will respond negatively? This forum is available to anyone with an internet connection. Don't get so upset so quickly.
If you go into a crowded building and shout a question to everyone in listening distance do you honestly think no one will respond negatively? This forum is available to anyone with an internet connection. Don't get so upset so quickly.
While I see your point, I see hers also.
Every thread posted in this forum is met with its fair share of hostile/needlessly rude posts from posters who get away with it because of who they know/befriended. Just an observation.
OP since you are a first time poster such a far fetched story is unfortunately met with skepticism. That said, you don't know the entire story. Did you say during the discussion you are perplexed since she has glowing reviews? The 'other reasons' could be real. In your shoes I would want to know exactly why I was being told to let someone go.
So I have a long time report who I get along with very well. She is a fantastic worker, a great person, for reasons unbeknownst to me, I have been instructed to make separate her from employment with the company.
This came as a total shock to me, since she gets glowing reviews, she has been with the company over 35 years, and is one of the best people on my staff. When I probed my superiors for a little more information into their decision to terminate her employment, they told me it was because she was getting " long in the tooth. "
I know this is completely unethical, I am personally very hurt by this, because she does not deserve this, but I can not go against the current here and lose my job, I am a single working mother and need this job.
So Im torn, do I anonymously let the employee know, even though I have no proof, or do I just terminate her as told too and put this poor woman in financial harm?
In 1984, I was working in a hospital in Virginia and was ordered to fire one of my employees by the hospital administrator. When I asked why, the reply was "I hate that n*****." That was my last week on the job. I worked for a third party contractor and I told them the situation and told them to move me or I would resign. I was at another hospital the next week.
At some point, you have to determine if ethical behavior is an abstract principle or if it really means something to you.
Do your job (or lose it) and ask her if she has any idea why. Then you might want to have a "friend" ..not you...tell her to write everything down she can think of and give her the name of a good attorney
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