Well done?

I had lunch with an ex-work colleague today who has been dismissed; not because of attitude, nor because of a failure to deliver business expectations; indeed an irony of this case is that, whilst languishing at home, their labour won a prestigious award for business improvement and productivity, happily received by a project manager and “hangers-on”, whilst the principal contributor was being airbrushed out of existence.

My colleague single-handedly took his employer through a paradigm shift in their processing and presentation of data through a suite of Internet portals, yet this was the result: guilty of charges that seemingly resulted from an extended period of mutation and re-interpretation, to a point of desperation and disproportion, by those whose principle attribute seems to be the avoidance of pragmatic problem resolution.

You can pick your friends but not your family. You can shake them off but you cannot deny them. You may live your a life apart from them yet their failings are deemed your failings and their crimes yours also, but for some your "real crime” would be to wish to lessen the public linkage of yourself to their indiscretions. This my friend did and lost his job!

It appears that Human Resources would rather throw out a productive and conscientious asset, upon whom they have spent thousands of pounds for career development, rather then admit to failures on their parts. These people have done a disservice to themselves, to the well-being of their local government organisation and to the morale of those “in the know”. They seem content to confirm that for distancing yourself from one's family lineage (over which you have no control), you will be punished.

To those responsible for this outcome I have this question. * If you had to review the worthiness of a German for a job, would you start by checking their oven and then upon finding nothing, accuse them of hiding the “facts”, whilst resolutely presenting the crumbs of a Yorkshire Pudding as those “facts”, upon which “guilt” (by implication) is proved? I think not – so why utilise such an approach in this case?

You have temporarily (hopefully) ruined the aspirations of a whole household, but how satisfied you must be to merely prove your department has teeth. Well done?

Well Done Part 2 ...

* Upon re-reading this I apologise to many Germans, but this metaphor best expresses my amazement at how my colleague was processed.

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