Terminated employees suspect companies fabricate reasons for firing
13 posts across 7 communities in the last 30 days; 23% from r/Accounting.
“Please file it. If he told you that you wouldn’t qualify, he lied. Poor performance still gets unemployment. I was fired after disclosing a disability and they claimed poor performance and I still got it. The only way these companies will learn is if their unemployment insurance…”
“Your perspective seems to be that a company should feel free to fire people with cause, even if they have great performance reviews & haven't broken any policies. I could not disagree more strongly with that. Do you acknowledge that some people get fired/PIP'ed because the…”
“In the original post you said you currently have this situation. "I have an employee" But in this reply, you are saying: "I’d want to understand exactly what happened" You would? According to the original post its a situation you are currently in. [re: What do you do when a…”
Several users discuss situations where terminated employees believe their former employers invented justifications for the dismissal. This suggests a lack of transparency and potential dishonesty from management when handling layoffs or firings, leaving employees questioning the true motives behind their termination.
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“In the original post you said you currently have this situation. "I have an employee" But in this reply, you are saying: "I’d want to understand exactly what happened" You would? According to the original post its a situation you are currently in. [re: What…”
“Sorry man, don’t be too hard on yourself, getting fired doesn’t mean you are a bad employee, it just means you had a bad experience in that specific place, it doesn’t define you as a professional or as a person. Take some time to yourself without applying to anything to clear your head a bit. Hoping all the best for you.”
“Hmm, sounds like you broke a promise. Personally I wouldn't have made that promise to begin with but once I've made a promise I really try to keep unless something extreme happens.”
“Do you feel like your performance could’ve been better? Were there contributing factors such as management, work environment, company culture?”
“Also, it doesn’t take a brain scientist to move over to the Robert half temp to perm thread and read people’s experiences.”
“When i got fired due to redundancy i only found out on the day. It was like "hey your fired, effective immediately"”
“Story time: I worked as a field technician for a retail organization (not going to name which), and I was fired due to two main issues. The first was I kept forgetting to ship items back to the bench, to the point my storage closet looked like a hoarder’s place. I was getting slammed with service calls and the shipping got away from me. The second was not properly shipping a box at UPS and causing some of the devices to be way too damaged to repair. Both were completely my mistakes, so I do unde”
“Yes its their fault ! But why they hire me if they want someone senior although the position is mid level”
“They qualify for unemployment even as someone with “poor performance”. The unemployment office knows how to deal with these employers”
“Please file it. If he told you that you wouldn’t qualify, he lied. Poor performance still gets unemployment. I was fired after disclosing a disability and they claimed poor performance and I still got it. The only way these companies will learn is if their unemployment insurance rate goes up and the only way to do that is to file unemployment. Please do so I’m sick of these companies taking advantage of us.”
“1st job doesn't really count. Layoffs happen There isn't a way to tell for sure because it's only your side of the story. Anyone from the companies would have a different story. With that said, if they both said the same things about your performance then yes it would be you.”
“I'm not talking about layoffs, do people get fired for performance issues at big companies? How does that happen? I have never heard of anyone getting fired for performance based issues. I'm mostly talking larger corporate environments, not small <2000 people companies etc. submitted by /u/PESSl [link] [comments]”
“And it most likely has to do with performance and not the factors that you listed.”
Sounds like textbook discrimination. Go to the labor board.
“Unlike firing you, if you quit, they don't need to demonstrate cause or see their unemployment insurance rate rise, or potentially defend a lawsuit.”
“In America, an employer can fire an employee for no reason at all. If there is an employee with a disability who they find to be a burden, they could fire them and say it was for no reason. Then, if the fired person thinks they were wrongfully or illegally terminated, it’s on them to gather evidence to prove discrimination.”
“I am glad we can agree that it is wrong for an employee to be terminated with cause when they have done nothing wrong. Because in the case of OP & the commentor above, they didn't do anything wrong. Vague criticisms are not a reason to fire someone, there needs to be actionable & reasonable criticisms. But in the case of OP & the commentor above, they were let go despite having good performance reviews. And at best, they got vague reasons as to why. I hope you can see why this is”
“Your perspective seems to be that a company should feel free to fire people with cause, even if they have great performance reviews & haven't broken any policies. I could not disagree more strongly with that. Do you acknowledge that some people get fired/PIP'ed because the company doesn't want to pay severance? Or for petty/vague reasons? Do you think it is fair for someone's reputation to be permanently harmed over a situation they have no control over? Again, we are discuss”
“You should do so in a nice, evidence based way, and not in a "try to be the correct one" type of way Correct, we are wrong all the time or missed things. But OP sentences shows that it was more important to show he was right (ego) than clearly communicating concerns to his/her boss”