Job Issue- How would you handle this?

roshke
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:04:23 +0000

Under the circumstances, I think it’s strange that the production manager would not have called your D directly if he knew that this had happened, though people don’t always do the right thing. Is it possible that letting your D go was an oversight and that someone did not realize that your D was hired with the understanding that it was a full summer position?

The email route is good for all the reasons people have mentioned (especially since it gives him time for the production manager/neighbor to get to the bottom of this if there WAS some kind of mistake), but I don’t feel that strongly about it and don’t think it’s inappropriate under the circumstances you outlined for your D to put in a call to him. It’s even possible that you might get some kind of “off the record” feedback in a phone call. Of course, he can always just pick up the phone himself and call your D back after he reads the email.

I know several people who have worked for temp agencies and hear that they often hire and terminate without any advance notice or explanation whatsoever. I fully understand your H’s skepticism, but you have to wonder if one hand knows what the other is doing in this case.