#dumbmanagement

So my bosses believe in “managing someone out”.

To “manage someone out” their way means to: Bring said person in for a meeting. List the reasons their work performance is not good enough. Then remove said person from the roster. When they ask why they are getting no shifts your reply is either “your performance is not good enough” or nothing at all.

I googled “define managing out” and found an article by Chris Forrest Harvey titled “Managing someone out - the right way”. In which he states “managing someone out the right way means you ask someone to resign and he or she does willingly”.

This is not the case for a staff member tonight who is and I quote the “dumbest employee we have”. In their defence she is not the most intelligent of motivated staff member we have in our team but their complete lack of empathy toward her is shocking. Alternatively in the employees defence has she been trained adequately and or been given the opportunity to show her full potential?

I was informed that they were going to sit down and have a meeting with her tonight where they were going to basically try and get her to resign from her position. Furthermore, that if she wouldn’t resign they would hand her a final written warning which would mean she was fired. This was not the case.

The said staff member chose not to resign which resulted in myself telling my bosses that “I have already released the rosters and she will not be on them”. This was due to me being told that morning to release them in the hope she would do as they predicted. Their response to me saying that was “oh well, we knew nothing”. This is what would also be said if she questioned her where abouts on the rosters.

This is not the first time and incident like this has happened and more than likely not the last. I understand that from their perspective “firing” or “terminating” someone’s employment is difficult but sometimes it is better for that person than simply keeping them around and giving them the bare minimum shifts just because you are trying to make them leave.

This whole ordeal is completely barbaric and manipulative. Nobody is perfect but there are times where you need to draw a line in the sand and accept the role of the villain.

In my opinion this is totally and utterly immoral! In what sick universe is removing somebody from a roster fair? The fair work ombudsman would have a field day with their lack of empathy for their own staff.

Let me know your opinion and whether you would allow your self to be treated this way or whether you would treat someone this way.