There are two ways for someone to leave their job: either they resign, or they get fired.
At least officially. Anyone who has ever held a job knows that a workplace situation is not all black and white. And there are a lot of factors playing into an employee’s decision to quit, or an employer’s decision to fire.
Take a company that is under financial strain, for example. Their decision to fire an employee might have nothing to do with them or their performance, but the general position of the company itself. If an employee loses their job because the company went under, can they really say that they were fired, or does that situation introduce a third option?
Similarly, some employees end up quitting their jobs not because they didn’t like the work, or their paycheck wasn’t enough, but because of one specific person who made the workplace environment unbearable. If someone resigns because they were basically forced out of the company, can they really say that they quit, or is there now a fourth option as well?
To say that the employee in the story below resigned is technically true, but as we established, the situation is so complicated that resigning seems like an understatement. The only reason they decided to leave their job was that they were forced out by a new manager. Someone who, for some reason, decided to make the office as inhospitable to this one employee as possible. They were left out of meetings, given unreasonable deadlines, and micromanaged every step of the way. They were basically left with no choice but to quit, to the point that you may as well call it getting fired…
Is there anything to do in situations like these? Can they be avoided or fixed? Keep scrolling to read the full story and share your opinions in the comments below.
Author: Kayitsi.com
