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The message that they sent him to explain kicking him out is... really odd.

> The Remote RC Orientation Guide was written as a software guide for anyone in the RC community who was new to Virtual RC rather than as a full guide to the first week for new folks. We will add a note to the top of it to remind folks to check Community for the schedule of their first day, and we’ll add a link to the thread with the schedule to the ‘Tools for participating in Remote RC’ email.

So they are acknowledging that their communication was inadequate

> We only make exceptions to missing the first day when someone has an emergency

And they acknowledge that they have the ability to fix this at this point in time.

Yet they still kicked him out.

More like deferring to a later batch than kicked out entirely.

That's still 6 weeks of salary the author misses out on

Responses like this are why organizations often choose to do nothing rather than improve. Just because they are improving future communications does not mean their communication was inadequate or that this qualifies as an emergency.

If it does not qualify as an emergency then why are they kicking them out? No second chances, no "this is your last and final warning" nothing. Would you willingly cause 6 week long holes in peoples lives over a simple misunderstanding?

"Emergency" is obviously in reference to an emergency causing the person to miss the meeting (examples: a car accident on the way to the meeting; a canceled flight that would otherwise have been on time; a fire at their domicile that morning).

"I didn't read the documentation thoroughly" is regrettable, but not an emergency. Whether it is grounds for kicking the person out depends on the importance of the missed meeting (seemingly extremely), the due diligence of the organization (it seems this was the first person to miss the meeting under rules that have been in effect for months), and the cost of missing it for both parties (under no circumstances is it a "hole in people's live"; they are not sending people who miss the meeting to prison).

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