Timeline for How can I respond to a CEO asking me to terminate an employee for reasons I disagree with?
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| Jun 21, 2023 at 9:23 | comment | added | iono | "there will always be the suspicion of favouritism" - it is perfectly legal for an employer to give ownership of the entire company over to their own child, for absolutely any reason. any employees who expect fairness inside an autocratic private organisation are deluding themselves, and insinuating it's the workers that are prejudicially punitive about suspected nepotism and not the bosses is either naive or dishonest. if the workplace was actually democratic, the workers could decide this for themselves, and at worst would only need to make neither partner the other's superior. | |
| Sep 14, 2016 at 22:28 | comment | added | user37746 | @RualStorgeit is too bad that letting an underperformer go doesn't cause others to follow. Why is life so perverse? | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 3:41 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 12:40 | comment | added | sleske | @GuntramBlohm: Interesting. However, even that policy apparently only outlawed relationships where one partner could "influence" the other's work situation (whatever that may mean). | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 12:18 | comment | added | Guntram Blohm | @sleske: This seems to be a policy that's quite common in US companies. When Wal-Mart tried to expand to germany, they tried to implement that for their employees, got into a lawsuit, and lost. Link in german | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 8:55 | comment | added | kkron | I would say definitely option 3 should be pursued before option 2. If anything must be done about the relationship first ask the people who will be most impacted. As you say the situation may be about to change anyway or they may be wanting a change but may be hesitant to avoid impacting the company. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 18:33 | comment | added | neminem | Yeah, #2 makes the most sense. At one point at this company, I was working on a team exactly like this: the lead developer and one of the QA people were both pretty awesome, then the QA person got suddenly moved to a different department, and I was like, why? I found out later it was because they were dating. They've now been married several years, and are both still at the company. :) | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 8:38 | comment | added | sleske | @Krishnabhadra: Where I work (office work, Germany) relationships between employees are not usually a problem either. It is sometimes frowned upon if one is the supervisor of the other (risk of favoritism), but even then it's usually solvead amicably, like DJClayworth describes. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 5:55 | comment | added | Krishnabhadra | Btw, in our places companies is happy when couples work together, because there is less chance of one of them resigning. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 5:51 | comment | added | Krishnabhadra | I can't believe getting engaged/married to a co-worker is not allowed in countries. If my fiancee got fired (or moved into a different place) after our engagement, I would surely rethink about continuing in that company. Personal life shouldn't influence professional decisions. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 15:57 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2015 at 14:50 | comment | added | Eric J Fisher | @Happy this is why you don't fire good people. When someone respected in your staff is fired it almost always snow balls. When someone who's underperforming, constantly tardy, disruptive, etc it's a lot less likely others will follow. | |
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| Feb 23, 2015 at 4:04 | comment | added | Masked Man | Wow, sometimes the solution is worse than the problem! If the manager resigns over the issue, the CEO will probably ask the new manager to fire the woman employee, and by then, the hard-working developer would have probably also resigned. In effect, the company has lost three employees over a relatively trivial matter. (and who knows, how many more employees would leave due to the "Avalanche Effect"). | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 2:29 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2015 at 23:31 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | +1 for "if the company arbitrarily and suddenly fires one of the couple, it is highly likely that the other one will quit too. Then you will lose both of them". If even the manager is thinking of resigning over this, then it's very, very likely the fiance would! | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 20:05 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |