Two words: “PROBATIONARY PERIOD”

Aren’t “at will” employment laws fun?

Guru says: Very Real

I’ll keep this short and sweet — this is the most excellent example of why it is important to chant the Lamester Guru mantra:

“If you don’t want anyone to know, never tell anyone.
If you don’t want everyone to know, never write it down.”

I think the boss wins, that’s a no-brainer, but at what cost?

She deserved to be sacked, she’s a whiney, pouty temp who has no sensibility. Yet, she is better-off not working for a pervvy wanker anyway. I- I hesitate to say this, but I truly hope she deleted him as a friend after this; in the Guru’s world, forgiveness only goes so far…

The boss surely is a snide tool who most-likely does prance around like a queen when he’s off-duty and overcompensates at work by belittling his employees and sticking them with shit stuff to do just to piss them off and calling it their job while making it unbearable — Sure, a man might understandably feel emotional about her post and take it personally, but a better man whould have simply reminded her he was friended and is aware of her negative comments and would have left the firing to the private office scene. Terminations are best a private matter; it can get a wrongfully-sacked temp years upon years’ worth of payroll if messed-up by a pervvy wanker’s flippant put-downs and strong profanity. I would have had my boss or someone else do the firing and would have lost the f-word altogether. It’s about being cooler than that, or saying it with a better word, preferrably one she would have to look-up in a dictionary.

He was too close, it reads like he could have screwed that up by associating his declaration of homosexuality and complicated it into a court case where he would have been sacked and she would have settled for a sum. How? Being “openly” gay doesn’t suddenly exempt you from sexual harassment charges from women — there’s plenty of bisexual pervvy bosses out there making ladies’ lives a living hell every day. Sure, his sacking her online is completely legal, but it doesn’t mean it’s appropriate, or in the best interests of the company’s image, nor does it mean he isn’t a pervvy wanker. If I were his boss, I would have suspended him for handling it at her level; outside the office, on facebook. He probably owns the business like he owned that exchange of text since he said “what I pay you to do” which is an owner-kind of boss thing to say.

Sure, it makes a classic read for lamebook, but only a tool would put themselves and their employers and the company’s clients in such an unprofessional arena. Anonymity was not guaranteed when he wrote it, and personnel issues should be discreet, if not confidential.
Ex. Just because you stole a stapler from the company doesn’t give me the right to break into your house to steal it back — just ask O.J. Simpson about that one…

His candor was quite the sick burn, yet it could have backfired if she was a little more clever and cool-headed, or had a decent retort. Fortunately, she was not, and didn’t, which is why we get to read her classic rant in the first place.

This, like all my other comments, is simply where I’m at now.
Take all my musings with a grain of salt. That’s what this site is here for — so I can’t spew to all you lamesters what I dare not speak to my facebook associates.

Be Here, Be Now. Be Cool.

Never Be Lame. Deep down inside, where it really counts, you know I love each and every one of you.

Peace Be To You All, My Fellow Lamesters.
LGP

I had some of my blog on public, never thought anyone would every find it, but I mentioned how shit my workplace was and things customers had done to me and how much i hated this particular manager. What didn’t expect was that the twats at head office would have nothing better to do than go through the whole internet looking for mentions of this company. So i got hauled up into the general manager’s office and all the managers and a supervisor read my personal diary. They threatened a disciplinary but in the end i think they were too afraid to fire me for fear it might get out and make the company look bad. The hated manager threatened to sue me for libel, what a douche… still it was like constructive dismissal cos I had to leave after that as it was just too awful. I posted a very angry journal entry about it in defiance, insulting the very high up manager who reported me, and he got v pd off.