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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
In flip's defense, I can see an employer in the landscaping or golf course maintaince industry wanting to fire employees within the first three months. Landscaping especially can get some useless and otherwise unemployable people starting off. Reason being that the qualifications are only being able-bodied in most cases. Some of them are terrible employees and you want to get rid of them before they have any sort of entitlement to anything.
Flip just sounds like someone who wants to sift out the crap. As a boss there's nothing worse than unloyal useless employees who just want to find loopholes and excuses to be lazy. With regards to the 'trouble-maker' comment, sometimes the squeaky wheel people are also the types that pay attention to how many sick days they have and intentionally take all of them regardless of being sick or not. These aren't team players and if you have a chance to fire them before they become entrenched then fair game.
Back when I was a student and worked in a grocery store I couldn't believe at the amount of lifers there whose goal was to screw-over the employer by shirking or trying to bilk management into doing something to inadvertantly to activate some weird hidden clause burried deep within the collective bargaining agreement that somehow ended up either paying them more for a shift or getting time off. Unions are really counter productive.
In response to the original poster: If everything in your employment went down exactly as you make it sound (Ie hardworking employee, concerned about not missing work, caught in a grey area situation, etc. then it seems like the guy is being a jerk. Not illegal however if you were in your first three months).
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If he has a 'fav' way of firing people, is that cutting through the crap?
It's a vicious circle, sometimes employees screw mgmt because managers have a favorite way of firing people.
There are ahole managers and high quality managers. Just like there are brutal workers and great workers.
Like you say there are "unloyal useless employees" goes both ways, favorite ways of firing people redefineds unloyal.