Company Terminates Top Performing Employee 'To Teach Others A Lesson'

According to the user, 'Any Boysenberry' the company fired one of its most accomplished employees only to demonstrate their ability to terminate anyone at will.

Most of the companies have a policy of rewarding their employees for their performances as it fosters a positive work environment. However, in an unusual incident, a company fired one of their top-performing employees in order to send across a message and teach a lesson to the rest of the staff. Yes, you heard that right. The incident since being shared on Reddit has gone viral.

According to the user, 'Any Boysenberry' the company fired one of its most accomplished employees only to demonstrate their ability to terminate anyone at will.

Speaking in detail about the incident Boysenberry wrote, "Honestly, a lot of things have been going down at my current job including upper management stealing commissions from workers, not respecting contract terms, giving us a hard time if we spend more than 5 mins in the bathroom and saying the door is open if we don't like it etc."

Explaining further he wrote, "The other day they threatened to fire me because I was demotivated, demotivated because THEY stole my commissions. Today they fired a coworker who was a top performer and just behind me in sales figures. The official news were that they fired him because he was not meeting expectations. But, our direct manager told us they fired him as an EXAMPLE, that we shouldn't fight with management for stuffs like commissions or breach of contracts, because they can fire anybody at will if we are trying to go against what they say."

Since being shared the post has amassed close to 800 upvotes and several comments.

 

"Most people dislike lawyers, but companies like OP's are one of the reasons why we need them," commented one user on the post.

"This is a company that is failing so hard they can’t afford unemployment so they are hoping that firing the one guy will get a bunch of employees to quit," wrote another user

"I don’t see this working out the way the company expects. A lot of times it takes one person leaving or getting fired to trigger a mass exodus, especially if you know they aren’t above firing someone to prove a point," commented a third.

"If a contract is in writing and they’re breaching it; get a lawyer and sue them. Hell, grab the rest of the workers and former workers and make it a class action suit," suggested a fourth.