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Underhanded Tactics (Part 3: The Waiting List)
I have been amazed at some of the ingenious lengths people will go to to ensure their ends are met; take the example of retrenchments. I have heard of people who were given promotions into new positions and who were paid more money and their new pay bracket put them into a more expensive and more at risk of retrenchment categorym so their promotion was short lived as they were retrenched a few months later --was this planned or by chance? I know of someone whose job profile changed from permanent to contractor when he got a promotion, and the company then easily removed this person later as he was no longer a permanent member of staff. Another person who was a contractor had the promise of being made a permanent staff member right up until the day his access card no longer worked and he was unable to come into work. Or people may only be told on the last day that their contracts will not be renewed, previously renewed year after year, but they could see this possibility coming as there was delay after delay in approving them. Perhaps you are told these people decided to retire. I have come across cases where whole departments were restructured, changing reporting lines, and a few months later it was said that managers should not report to managers and some people were then retrenched. Hmmm, I thought to myself, but the restructure recently done caused the change to this structure; was the restructure therefore done in anticipation of the coming retrenchment, effectively deciding beforehand who would be targeted? Likewise, you must have heard of the common retrenchment exercise of a department being downsized and people then needing to reapply for their jobs, but of course only a limited number of jobs are then available to reapply for. Call me suspicious, but I am certain most departments undertaking this exercise know full well who they plan to rehire long before the applications to reapply for jobs are given in! Another common tactic seems to be to hire a few new people before a retrenchment exercise happens--is this bad planning, or is this done consciously, either wanting to protect existing staff if the new people are the ones to be retrenched, or else deciding new staff are a better proposition than existing staff? What cases of possible retrenchment deception are you aware of?
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Underhanded Tactics (Part 3: The Waiting List)
I have been amazed at some of the ingenious lengths people will go to to ensure their ends are met; take the example of retrenchments. I have heard of people who were given promotions into new positions and who were paid more money and their new pay bracket put them into a more expensive and more at risk of retrenchment categorym so their promotion was short lived as they were retrenched a few months later --was this planned or by chance? I know of someone whose job profile changed from permanent to contractor when he got a promotion, and the company then easily removed this person later as he was no longer a permanent member of staff. Another person who was a contractor had the promise of being made a permanent staff member right up until the day his access card no longer worked and he was unable to come into work. Or people may only be told on the last day that their contracts will not be renewed, previously renewed year after year, but they could see this possibility coming as there was delay after delay in approving them. Perhaps you are told these people decided to retire. I have come across cases where whole departments were restructured, changing reporting lines, and a few months later it was said that managers should not report to managers and some people were then retrenched. Hmmm, I thought to myself, but the restructure recently done caused the change to this structure; was the restructure therefore done in anticipation of the coming retrenchment, effectively deciding beforehand who would be targeted? Likewise, you must have heard of the common retrenchment exercise of a department being downsized and people then needing to reapply for their jobs, but of course only a limited number of jobs are then available to reapply for. Call me suspicious, but I am certain most departments undertaking this exercise know full well who they plan to rehire long before the applications to reapply for jobs are given in! Another common tactic seems to be to hire a few new people before a retrenchment exercise happens--is this bad planning, or is this done consciously, either wanting to protect existing staff if the new people are the ones to be retrenched, or else deciding new staff are a better proposition than existing staff? What cases of possible retrenchment deception are you aware of?
Next blog article: Underhanded Tactics (Part 5: Knowledge is Power)
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