Journal Tsunayoshi's Journal: If this happened to me... 1
Tomorrow someone is being fired. I know this, the whole office knows this, she does not. That is what is pissing some of us off.
Don't get me wrong, in the opinion of most of us she deserves to be fired since she has been here for months yet can't do the very basic entry level tasks she was hired to do, much less be a viable strong member of her team. She has been on "probation" due to poor performance for the past few weeks/months.
She is a contractor, has a government team lead, who has a goverment department lead. The department lead works directly with our company's program rep for personnel issues. These are the ONLY people who should have known about her being fired. Yet one of those three (and pretty sure not the company rep, too smart for that) gossipped about privileged personnel information that should have never gotten out until the employee was pulled into an office and told in person. Now she gets to show up at work where we all know she is going to be fired and watch her get called into the office and get the news.
She is a pretty cool person so I am feeling really bad for her even though she does need to go.
I am wondering what kind of recourse she could have and if anything could be done to the leads who violated their privilege. If it was me I would filing a complaint in writing to the highest corporate people I could about the actions of the government on this contract, as well as hitting a few high ranking govies who are over these people, and finally the Office of Personnel Management. I'm sure nothing would get done in the end, but I would have some satisfaction that I made life difficult for some people for a little while.
This sounds familiar (Score:2)