Employee Layoffs Is Fine, But In Inhuman Ways Is Horrifying!

Hey all employers, I know you’ve suffered the recession too, and are hard-pressed for funds. Naturally, you have no option but to slash your human resource costs. Fine! But who’s told you that you’ve got to be cruel to your employees while doing that? Don’t you know that apart from cutting off their vital source of materialistic sustenance, you are also causing them mental agony? You must remember that a laid off employee is distressed in so many ways. Your cruel ways will only increase the distress. Well, think it over, an oversensitive employee might even commit suicide and then you’ll have to face the legal music. Here are a couple of examples of employee layoff that enrage me:

Laying Off a Person for Health Reasons

What do you do when a person attends off ice despite being seriously? Adore her commitment or just kick her off? Here’s a woman who kept attending office even though sick until her condition worsened and she was put in hospital emergency. Listen to what the employee has to this from the Gawker report, “I had been working for several months for a company that deliberately kept me just under full time to avoid having to offer me benefits. I got sick, and because I didn’t have health insurance I didn’t go to the doctor (and kept going to work). By the time I was finally dragged to the emergency room by a friend, my illness required a five-night hospital stay. The day I got home from the hospital, my manager came to my house to ‘check on me.’ I was surprised at her thoughtfulness until I found out that along with flowers, she had also brought a severance check. I’m still paying off that hospital bill.”

So is this the kind of inhuman treatment that we are trying to mete out to our employees?

Making a Lay off Announcement Public

Nobody wants to be laid off. Its bad news and many people are embarrassed when it is conveyed to them in front of their subordinates and colleagues. But some employers don’t seem to be sensitive enough to these understand this. Here’s an example from the High Definition that tells about how an employee’s dismissal letter was put on the company’s folder on a shared drive of the computer. Hear it from Sylvia, the employee herself: “My boss didn’t know how to save anything into different folders, so it all went into her “Annie’s Stuff” folder on the shared drive. I had access, so I spent many merry months reading her Christmas letters, letters to an ex-baby daddy, and the performance reviews of my coworkers. One day I saw a new file with “Sylvia Fired.doc” on it. The dismissal form she’d filled out was full of misspellings and grammatical errors—I spent my last few hours at work copyediting my own dismissal letter. It was the most fulfilling project I took on during my time there.”

For more such horrifying examples visit the Gawker website