You have to specifically choose a person, presumably with an actual reason for sacking them, then reach out to them specifically to inform them of their sacking.
In my country you also require a valid reason for doing so, you can’t just randomly sack someone, I imagine in this case it would be being made redundant.
So, you decide your staff are no longer required and if their contract allows you to let them go (or you just pay the big severance or whatever), okay cool.
Then you… change your mind? What?
That’d be a deeply incompetent employer. Like, buffoon levels. I wouldn’t go back to working for someone like that. If nothing else, they’ve shown how little they care about their staff. Not worth it.
The morons fired every federal employee who was classified as “probationary”, in multiple departments. This is all employees with less than 90 days in their current role, but because these idiots don’t know anything about anything, they assumed it meant new hires only.
Others have pointed out that the US largely practices “at will” employment (IIRC, only one state doesn’t), and that’s true, but government workers do tend to have stronger protections than private sector workers. But probationary status is a whole other can of worms.
How do you accidentally sack someone?
You have to specifically choose a person, presumably with an actual reason for sacking them, then reach out to them specifically to inform them of their sacking.
In my country you also require a valid reason for doing so, you can’t just randomly sack someone, I imagine in this case it would be being made redundant.
So, you decide your staff are no longer required and if their contract allows you to let them go (or you just pay the big severance or whatever), okay cool.
Then you… change your mind? What?
That’d be a deeply incompetent employer. Like, buffoon levels. I wouldn’t go back to working for someone like that. If nothing else, they’ve shown how little they care about their staff. Not worth it.
Elon Musk has a consistent pattern of doing exactly this over and over.
Not just Elon. It’s the hedge fund playbook. Aquire a company, strip it for parts, collect profit, move on to the next business.
The Federal government is being liquidated as a going concern. Elon is leading the charge because he’s the most successful in his field.
It’s about the 6th separate incident in gov I’ve heard of in the last few weeks.
The morons fired every federal employee who was classified as “probationary”, in multiple departments. This is all employees with less than 90 days in their current role, but because these idiots don’t know anything about anything, they assumed it meant new hires only.
Others have pointed out that the US largely practices “at will” employment (IIRC, only one state doesn’t), and that’s true, but government workers do tend to have stronger protections than private sector workers. But probationary status is a whole other can of worms.