It's *supposed* to be more complicated than this little cartoon, but I've worked for a couple small companies before, and I've seen them do a *perfect* analogue of this process. Granted, they're usually *engineering* the collapse specifically so that they can "justify" outsourcing the function in question.
And sometimes this is exactly what happens. There is no complexity, no nuance.
You get short staffed, what staffing you do have isn't highly trained and then they pull your staff for "more important" job sites.
Add to that a strong feeling that addressing your concerns will be received as insubordinate and met with discipline.
Next thing you know, you're under the bus, grabbing a frame rail to get to the unemployment office.
Something i recently learned in business studies. In america you guys are legit allowed to be fired simply if the company doesn't want you. That's dumb af. Here the unions will castrate you if you dare try and fire someone without a valid reason that harms your company. Employees shouldn't have to pay for the employers downfall
Um.... yeah, it's totally legal in a lot of states to terminate someone's emploment "just because." It's called "right to work," and H.R. 785 is trying to make it nation-wide. They still have to show cause if they want to deny you unemployment benefits, but that doesn't mean you didn't just get terminated.
It's common practice in U.S. call center culture to terminate someone's employment when they get to the top 20% of the pay scale.
That's the paper definition. The practical definition is a state where, among other such problems, it's perfectly possible to be dismissed from employ because your supervisor heard you utter the word "union," whether it was meant as a joke or not. It happened to two dozen people in one week at one of my husband's former employers. The official reason was "position was no longer needed," but they also promptly hired on three dozen people to take up the slack, because in a call center one person who's been there a year does the work of one and a half newbies.
You get short staffed, what staffing you do have isn't highly trained and then they pull your staff for "more important" job sites.
Add to that a strong feeling that addressing your concerns will be received as insubordinate and met with discipline.
Next thing you know, you're under the bus, grabbing a frame rail to get to the unemployment office.
It's common practice in U.S. call center culture to terminate someone's employment when they get to the top 20% of the pay scale.