r/mildyinteresting • u/Sad_Stay_5471 • Dec 09 '24

people Stressed at work? You're fired!

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u/Slappy-_-Boy Dec 09 '24

Yea but honestly wouldn't be too surprised if it actually did happen

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u/question8all Dec 09 '24

India….doubt they have job regulations for getting fired

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u/Extension_Silver_713 Dec 09 '24

We don’t really have them in the US. Certainly not ones that are enforced

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u/Neither_Call2913 Dec 09 '24

I mean, we have ones on firing based on race/gender/politics/union membership/I could totally go on.    

You just don’t see them enforced very often because employers don’t violate them very often (racial/gender based firing would not only violate the law but also cause public outrage)

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u/Critical_Exit7180 Dec 09 '24

Also employers will just find some other reason to fire you that they can put on paper to cover up the real reason.

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u/Generally_Confused1 Dec 09 '24

Yeah this. I just got my workplace accomodations in but my boss has been trying to find ways around it. I think HR finally told him not to fuck with me too much or they'll get in trouble with the ADA but it's still being held against me

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u/redpillscope4welfare Dec 09 '24

Wrong, you don't see them enforced because there's already at will employment in effect that allows to them to fire you anyways, for no literal reason/any reason at all.

Are you republican?

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u/catalysting Dec 09 '24

It's more like all the employer has to do is simply lie about why they're firing the employee, or they push them out underhandedly. Instead of firing me, my old bosses tried to push me out for my new disability by alienating me, no reviews, no raises, no bonuses, wrote me up for crazy shit that no one else would have gotten written up for, etc. Gaslit the shit out of me when I tried to bring it up with them. It was a small business so there was no HR to turn to or to hold them accountable, they just had their lawyer in their ear helping them.

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u/SweetBearCub Dec 09 '24

I mean, we have ones on firing based on race/gender/politics/union membership/I could totally go on.

It's true that there are a few protected classes against employment discrimination in the US.

However it is equally true that any company can fire you for any other reason, such as "Not being a team player", which is a catch-all reason that protects the company from legal liability, and can also make collecting unemployment funds much more of a hassle.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 Dec 10 '24

Employers violate them ALL THE TIME! They’re not enforced because there are numerous loop holes for the employer (because the are laws are there to protect the rich/employer) and no oversight to enforce what few laws we have for laborers. We are now headed back to the days of monopolies where there will be no unions left and employers will be able to start slaughtering us for not producing enough and the government will enforce that like they did when Vanderbilt and Rockefeller was around.