Employee shouldn’t have been fired, but her Twitter response was unnecessarily snarky and reflected badly on the school.
I was a bit surprised because this is a professional job. Where I work a lot of emphasis is given to training new hires. A job search might have taken months and many applicants interviewed. A little patience goes a long way with a new hire.
We do have a six month probation period and some people just don’t work out. A bad 6 month performance review usually means a change is needed.
Hourly positions are handled much differently. It’s more like in the private sector. They clock in. Supervised closely. Just a totally different management approach from salaried staff.
I don’t have a cite for this but I heard this story being discussed on the radio and like most of these stories there was more to it. Apparently this employee had been warned multiple times against giving snarky answers. I’m not saying that firing her was the right call but there was more to it than the headlines would imply.
A new employee, probably still on probation, refused a directive to stop tweeting and continued. This is why probationary periods exist, to weed out potentially unsuitable new hires before they become more permanent.
Big surprise!
You have the audacity to say “unnecessarily snarky” here? This is the land of “unnecessarily snarky”. Or, more accurately, the land of “there ain’t no such thing as ‘unnecessarily snarky’”.
I dunno. I’m kinda siding with the “that isn’t the whole story” party here. Although people get fired for extraordinarily shallow and stupid things, true.