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    Senior accountant fired unceremoniously despite 6 years of dedicated service and the fact that she had endured a personal crisis 3 weeks earlier, company replaces her with junior staff member: 'They literally fired someone who had no performance issues'

    Does having a good reputation and long service really protect you at work? Or does it actually make you more of a target for layoffs?

    People spend years working on building a good reputation at work. Taking on extra tasks like training new hires and covering shifts even when their departments are short-staffed. They quietly absorb extra costs of the business with their own energy, time, and investment. The prevailing thought is that those years of loyalty and proven track record for going above and beyond their simple pay grade will create some sense of security for them, that their respect will be returned, and that when push comes to shove, the company will stick their neck out for them in return.

    But does this really happen? 

    When profitability falters, even when profitability does increase but not simply increase each quarter exponentially, will the company stick its neck out for that loyal employee? Or is it "just business"?

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      Coworker fired after 6 years because a new employee was “better”

      Corporations truly do not give a shi about any of us. My coworker was one of the sweetest people I've ever met, was very competent at her job, and was universally liked by almost everyone. She was a senior accountant.
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    • Businesses constantly talk about efficiency and optimization. And we all hear those words so often that they start to seem harmless when that very same optimization can completely alter your life in a single meeting and send you scrambling for another job. A person can spend years becoming the dependable employee everyone leans on, only to discover that dependability has no emotional weight inside a spreadsheet. And with cutting out the bottom line becoming the hottest trend, it's becoming more and more common for companies to gut staffing costs in the name of short-term profits, you begin to wonder where the bottom line meets the other bottom line in the workplace: mutual trust and loyalty. 

      Younger employees increasingly treat jobs as temporary arrangements instead of long-term commitments, seemingly more adjusted to the current state of affairs than the rest of us older workers. We who once believed in careers and loyalty and a long time spent with a single employer are becoming increasingly skeptical, but perhaps still too attached to the old ways. 

      These fresh entries to the workforce now see employment less as a relationship and more as a transaction, and let's be honest, businesses have been behaving this way since before they entered the workforce, so they have likely known nothing else and adapted as necessary. And this is an inevitable adjustment by the workforce. When companies repeatedly show that loyalty can be replaced by efficiency calculations, workers eventually start protecting themselves the same way businesses do.

      In a viral post on the topic, this employee shared how a senior accountant at their workplace was unceremoniously fired after 6 years of dedicated service despite being very good at their job and well-liked by everyone, with no performance issues. A newer junior accountant had impressed management by handling increasingly complex tasks; this had clearly got upper management wondering if they could get the same for cheaper, coming at a brutal time for the employee.

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      Then 2 years ago we hired a new junior accountant who was still in school. She's incredible, will definitely do great things with her life. She is still in school (graduating in December), and doesn't have her CPA (she's planning on getting it in the next few years), but she is really good at her job. She kept being given more complex tasks and has been doing really well in her role.
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      Well I guess the accounting manager decided that the newer employee should have the older employee's job. They literally fired someone who had no performance issues, was well liked, and did her job well, so they could give her job to someone else that they think is better.
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      Also the person they fired was in a car accident 3 weeks before she was fired and now doesn't have insurance because she's unemployed, and her mom just did a few months ago. Talk about kicking someone while they're down. The manager justified it with "it's just better for the business."
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      ImInClassBoring New girl is doing it for much cheaper.
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      autumneliteRS Hopefully the new girl leverages this position into a better job elsewhere and leaves this employer in the dirt
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      ajnozari Fired after a car accident, feels like retaliation or your employer getting rid of a "potential future problem" if she's going to need time off from work. Ngl I'd be getting an attorney to at least glance at the case.
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