I lost another friend

Understood.

Not knowing his state, if model employee Small Potatoes feels he was discriminated against and files a wrongful termination suit, would the company's unwillingness to specify a cause for the firing come back to bite it in court?

 

Depends. I'm obviously no lawyer, but I would think there would have to be a discrimination cited for a wrongful termination suit. Because he's a minority, a woman, a pregnant woman, in a protected class, because of a disability, something like that.

And not to go down another rabbit hole, but we have heard one side of the story. If his supervisor for those 3 days or whatever gave his account, I'm betting it wouldn't be very similar to SP's side of things.

 

https://www.indeed.com/q-Entry-Level-Digital-Marketing-Specialist-jobs.html

 

I have no interest in filing a lawsuit. I doubt I have a case since they don't need a reason to cut me loose. I guess because I'm older maybe if he said something like "You had trouble picking things up." or "You moved too slowly" a lawyer could interpret that as an age-discrimination issue, but that seems like a reach.

I'm still working the driving job and needed to give them two week's notice to make some adjustments in my schedule to fit in the weekend-only job at the hotel once the training was done and I was ready to fly solo. Maybe that was the issue, but I don't see what the harm would have been in saying that.

The main thing was, I never received any feedback from the manager that I was doing badly. I picked up some parts of the job quickly and he didn't seem concerned about me picking up the parts that were a little more difficult to me.

If you're going to let someone go for performance issues, it shouldn't be a surprise to them.

 

I'm actually applying for a lot of those. No luck yet.

 

Did the company give a reason for the firing?
If not, what is he going to do make up a reason that shows discrimination.
You can be fired for no reason.
You can't be fired for a bad (illegal, discrimination) reason.

 

Is that why, from their perspective, it would be better to say nothing?

 

would think so

 

Ridiculous.

 

Most jobs I've had included a 60- or 90-day probationary period where you could be let go at any time. Once you got past that, though, you were pretty much golden.

 

He’s in his probationary period, they don’t have to provide a reason other than it’s not working out.

what is ridiculous?

 

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Nope. :sigh:

I wish I had some verbal magic to offer. Been there, done that. Got to the point that I was almost phobic about being fired. I love what I do now and it's freed me to create things on my own terms. One thing I had to tell myself in getting from there to here was that I am not my job title. Maybe being the family fuckup helped. I knew I would never please anyone else, but my goodness, I needed decide I wasn't going to continually declare war on myself.

This is not written in the spirit of, "Waaaah!" so much as an attempt to let you know this is just a step to something better, not the end. Ride the ride. Here's a t-shirt.