What Do a Clinical Nurse and a Flight 1549 Survivor Have In Common?
As you probably know, I've been fired a few times from my job. Usually for my big mouth. Big surprise, right? Rarely if ever have I been fired for not doing a good job. Well, in this era of big job cutbacks, a lot of good people have been let go. Most people are everyday Joe's and Jane's , who usually see it coming. The procedure is usually you sit down with the bosses, and you get fired, or you get a pink slip with a couple hundred other people. Or , you have these stories....
A clinical nurse in Madison, Wisconsin was one of 90 employees of Dean Health that were let go immediately last month. The problem was that she was in the middle of a surgical procedure, but that didn't stop her employer.. She was literally pulled from the operating room to be notified that she was being let go. While nothing happened to the patient, it violate medicial protocol to take her out during surgery - not to mention it being in extremely poor taste. But that is nothing compared to Frank Scudere....
Scudere was a Senior Attorney for a major law firm in Manhattan, where on January 14th or this year, his name was put on a list of employees to be released from his job. Not knowing this, he boarded a plane to go home to his sububan Charlotte home after visiting his sick father. The flight was US Air Flight 1549.....
Of course, one would think that Scudere was the luckiest guy in the planet after surviving the water landing on the Hudson River. It did save his job, for the moment, but a week or so later, his father passed away. Then two months later, his firm decided that they had waited long enough. He was fired March 26th.
Yes, letting someone go is almost as tough as being let go, but there is a correct way to do it. I've had bosses leave the office so they didn't have to answer why I had been fired. The way these people were teminated (my favorite industry term for canning someone) leaves a lot to be desired....
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