Sorry, but we are letting you go

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´We are going to let you go due to the fact that we can feel that you are dissatisfied at working here for us.´

Is this a good enough reason to fire a person who has worked their best and given a lot to an institution?  A person who has come up with a lot of brilliant and creative ideas to promote the institution´s name in the business world?  Does an excuse like this help the person to become a better worker at the next job opportunity? One thing for sure is that the institution does not need to lose sleep over these issues for a concrete reason , at least in their minds, was given and now they are rid of the person, who to them, is considered a burden or a threat.

Dissatisfaction can be defined as the failure to make content; which simply means to be unhappy about something.  However, is a person content all the time; truly happy all the time. Isn´t it more realistic to say that there are times when you are content and others when you are not?  After all, we are human beings and it not natural for a person to be happy 24/7.  Unless this person is on some kind of drug that lets you hear the birds chirping and feel the warmth of the sun even in your darkest hour.

We all know that the truth can hurt, but it can also help. If businesses were just straight forward in letting you know what you can improve to be a better employee anywhere, perhaps there would be more `satisfied` people in companies these days.

(Written November 14, 2012)

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