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by imtringued
37 days ago
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Ok but with the European laws the incentive to do something at the last minute doesn't really exist. This seems like a self inflicted problem where the solution to the problem also made the problem worse when it happens. If you know that you have X months of pay if you behave, then why misbehave? You'll lose out on money and get a criminal record. Meanwhile if the employer wants you gone it's free money. Everyone is happy. You've been given enough time to find a new job. It's enough time to sit back and relax at work since you're getting paid either way. The primary reason why people want to get revenge is because of how inhumane the entire process is. The mass layoffs are random and impersonal, so you inherently think it is unfair and you will never agree with the reason of the layoff. The immediate access block and security escort is a reaction and extension of the inhuame treatment. |
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Sibling comment correctly points out that misbehavior would follow a different termination path, but I don't actually know what it is since I've never seen a European employee successfully fired. We normally just lay off problem employees and follow the same offboarding procedure for everyone. This does present its own retroactive abuses of the PIP process.
> If you know that you have X months of pay if you behave, then why misbehave?
Ageism is real. For those expecting to retire from a company in Y years, seeing expected future income reduced to X months is catastrophic since there's no guarantee they will ever continue their career in any capacity yet expect to live beyond X months. The inhumanity comes from realizing how insignificant you were to the grand scheme of things, and how easily you are discarded and forgotten.
Only the younger crowd thinks the way you do, where there's always more time to find another job. They can afford to be rational. For the rest this will be the last job they ever have; it is an indignified and humiliating end to a career they spent decades building. Revenge is easily rationalized.
Employment is modern slavery. Few earn enough to have meaningful agency over their lives.