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January 20, 2021
Leaving a job is a bit like a break-up in some ways. Of course, in a break-up it doesn't matter whether I break up with you or you break up with me. The person who initiates the break-up is somehow proud of himself for having dared to do it and thinks of himself as the party who has gained more.
Is it always like this?
Perhaps we can agree that the situation is definitely embarrassing.
Smiling at each other (at least on the surface), greeting each other with a loud hello and having coffee together, the boss and his subordinate fighting shoulder to shoulder for the sacred gain, break all contact almost overnight.
Let's look at what happens if the employer breaks up, i.e. thanks you for your participation on a rainy autumn day to the employee who had no idea until then. Of course, the reasons can be many and varied and I think we should act accordingly. What is certain is that either the person's job is no longer needed, so there is a financial reason, or it would be needed but the worker has really pulled the plug.
In the former case, there is no emotional charge that would make it difficult to behave like an adult, so the right thing to do would be to let the colleague who has been a good worker go on the bumpy road to the labour market in the most honest and supportive way.
However, it is the employee's responsibility to. stop thinking like the turkey in the story, who has been fed by the farmer every morning, day after day, and thinks it will be like this forever, until the day of thanksgiving has come... In other words, educate yourself, learn and build relationships, even if you're comfortable in a poultry yard.
But what about when someone should be fired? Many managers fail this test and don't dare to do it because the situation is not that bad, why make a fuss and who will do the job that the person who pulls the match is doing? But a leader is a leader, you have a higher salary and a company car, to take on the uncomfortable conversations. At least, he should.
If it comes to the point where you have to fire someone, by all means communicate (again) what the problem is, even if it is completely unnecessary, as it has happened many times before. Hopefully. With the lid on the pot vibrating on both sides, it is not a bad idea to do this with a surgical cut and to waive the notice period in our well-meaning interest.
But when the employee feels that he has reached his horizon of possibilities in the company and is simply fed up or has been offered something nicer, better, bigger, more colourful, more interesting, more spacious and more loving elsewhere, he must be aware that for the company, his departure is a loss.
And if you want to be fair, you don't say something at the last minute, you don't lure others along, but you do everything you can to fill the gap left behind with as little pain as possible for the sake of the other employees and the owner.
Because the employer is also a human being who has given you a job.
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