Narrate in 10 to 15 lines an incident that illustrate way a friend of yours made you feel happy and accepted at some point in your life
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Dey wasn’t s friend actually , but, I knew him very well . I was HR head for this company and one afternoon I was told to terminate his services as the senior manager. “Boss wants him out by 6 pm” , I was ordered. I said that I will not do this arbitrarily. Must have sufficient reason. “Invent the reason then” quipped the executive director.
I called for the employee’s appraisal records for previous 5 years and found that he had been appraised above satisfactory level consistently. He had actually been promoted in between . I found no rhyme and reason in dismissing him as we weren’t even downsizing then.
I called the ED and told him. He said this person had been hired in systems department during punch card machine age when COBOL was the programming language. But, he failed to upgrade his knowledge and skills with time and had become totally irrelevant in 25 years. I wanted to know what actions were taken by the company for his continuous education and training. The top management was indignant at this and didn’t answer. I further probed, “ why his 5 year appraisals are good?”. Again no satisfactory answer. Apparently he had been assigned in materials management function where he did well to earn even a promotion due to his good appraisal grades.
I refused to terminate the man and was adamant. I told ED he could overrule me and sign the letter himself. ED was a good man. He didn’t want to do it either. The case went to the boss. Boss transferred him to another of his company which was small. In that small company to protect his pay he was made a GM and served another 5 years.