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Originally Posted by 2022M550i
I was sued by one of those idiots, she was a senior mgr working for me. My name dragged through shit for 9 months, my operation and myself being investigated by the EEOC. That was unnerving to say the least. Not only was she worthless, she was extorting money from her employees to ensure they remained employed. I never heard of such a thing in modern times in a corporate setting. I wasted my time gathering all this smoking gun evidence and brought it to corporate counsel. They just said terminate her without cause, we don't need to prove anything in court, NY was an employment at will state. I got sued anyways. After the investigation, the EEOC representative shook my hand and said sorry you had to go through this. The complaint was dismissed. All from bullshit accusations. I should write a book. So many war stories.
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I have always operated on a level playing field basis. You knock it out of the park for me and I could give two shits what the color of your skin is, male or female or who you like to fuck. It is a meritocracy and that's how I manage and reward or punish. What is unnerving, especially in this cancel culture we are in, is how easily people try to pull the woman card, the racist card, the LBGQT card to extort you into moving them along by claiming they are treated unfairly.
Now don't get me wrong, there are some douche bag, sexist, racist, homophobes out there that certainly discriminate. I have never been one of them but I have had been pull those cards and try to extort undeserving rewards. No fucking way. I give feedback, I document it, I tell people exactly what they need to do to get to the next level and I also tell people what they are doing wrong and if you don't turn it around, you will be terminated. I give them time to do it with a performance plan.
Employee at Will means nothing when it comes to people filing grievances. Most companies want to avoid this from a reputational perspective, so they write a check and make them sign that they won't. I personally do give terminated employees an option to sign the separation agreement and get a check or don't sign it and don't get a check.
You are right though, at the end of the day, the employee always loses unless there is something egregious going on.