Article #61: Quiet Firing
The process of creating a hostile work environment by an employer in the hopes that it will cause an employee to quit is called Quiet Firing. Just as the name suggests, did you know that Quiet Firing happens every now and then quietly? Why do you think it happens in the first place? Do we have any better solutions rather than quiet firing? Well, let’s find out in our episode today with a fictitious story. Once upon a time there was a software engineer called Ramu who is smart, talented, brilliant, helpful but very soft , sensitive and innocent by nature. Ramu was always given loads of work which he used to do without any complaints. His team mates also used to share their work with Ramu secretly. Being a helpful and innocent person by nature, Ramu used to do everything that comes his way. 3 years passed by, people moved from here and there except Ramu. His management understood that in the worst-case scenario, we have a scapegoat ready who could never speak for h...