A boss goes viral for making a wild request from a recently fired employee.
UK workplace expert Ben Askins routinely goes viral for sharing anonymous text message exchanges between staff and their managers.
Askins recently shared a wild exchange during which a boss messaged an worker who had recently been fired and asked for his or her help with a brand new software.
The boss openly texted the previous worker and said, “I would like to ask a favor” after which explained the team were combating the most recent software update and needed their help sorting it out.
“Are you joking? You fired me and now you’re asking for help,” the ex-staffer fired back.
The boss responded and said that they “appreciated it was awkward,” however the team to which they’d outsourced the software issue to was unable to repair the issue.
The ex-employee wrote back, “I told you this is able to occur,” and the ex-boss replied again and asked if the previous employee would “walk” the brand new team through it remotely.
The ex-staffer replied and said they’d do it, but they desired to be paid for the assistance and “half a day’s pay” for his or her time.
The previous boss wasn’t blissful and argued it might take lower than an hour, so that they shouldn’t should pay the ex-worker for longer.
“We worked together for a very long time. Can’t you simply do that for me?” the previous boss asked.
Askins was not impressed by the exchange and said the entire conversation might have been “avoided” if a worthwhile worker had not been fired.
“What are you doing firing the one person who can do the work?” he asked.
Askins said that it was “outrageous” to attempt to “weasel” out of paying the ex-staffer for his or her work, and it simply shouldn’t have happened.
The workplace expert said the text exchange also highlighted the final tendency of workplaces to over-rely on a number of team members.
Askins argued that more people needs to be trained to handle things so people aren’t getting “bothered” especially once they’ve just been fired.
Online people were pretty ominously shocked the boss would ask for help from an worker who had just lost their job.
“Unbelievable,” one wrote.
“When jobs don’t have anything they’ve the audacity,” someone joked.
“Their number would have been blocked once I was fired,” one other shared.
Another person said the identical exact thing happened to them, and their former workplace wouldn’t “leave them alone” after firing them.
“Been there. Made redundant they usually wanted me to coach my substitute. I said no,” one shared.
Another person claimed the wildest thing in regards to the exchange was the ex-staffer only asking for half a day’s pay, deeming it “crazy” to not demand more.
