Job Issue- How would you handle this?

cptofthehouse
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:57:42 +0000

Bigtrees, I did not find it curious at all. She was clearly a good worker, but when it came to the guy’s attention that she was just there as a summer student, and he had a number of “career” folks out there, he gave them the heads up. I might have done the same in this economy and under certain circumstances, but I wouldn’t have just done it and had the info conveyed to the girl. I would have talked to her and explained the situation. This way there would have been and would not be any doubt that the dismissal was due to performance. I would have also assured the young lady that her work was good enough to get a full time offer, and if she truly were going to stick around there, she was going to be moving up. But given the economy, and so many workers needing jobs, it really was not right that she was given that position through contacts, bypassing the usual gates.