Having said that, firing someone on paternity leave is terrible and would be rightly illegal in many countries.
She is great at her job so we have no reason to think she would have otherwise been laid off. But plenty of people who were great at their jobs got laid off due to Covid. So it’s hard not to wonder.
It’s that he was fired when he happened to be on paternity leave.
But at the end of the day, isn’t it another form of paid leave?
So if he was paid out in advance for that time off would that fulfill the company’s obligations?
Genuinely asking, I am neutral on this since I don’t know the intents involved.
if your boss or board wants numbers, no product will ever end up good, no matter the people in the product teem
Pair that with their actual consumer product being a chaotic scattergun of failed sub-projects, terrible client UI relaunches and the apparent inability to ship anything meaningful given years of time and resources and frankly if I was a large enough investor I'd have been wanting wholesale firings and reorganisation years ago.
If he was paid through it, which I would assume-- any kind of senior dismissal will come with months of severance, what would the problem be?
Well, for one: PR at a critical time, obviously.
And, general employee morale.
I'm a systems guy. I'm into straight up logic. Emotional intelligence scares and confuses me.
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