When Working Too Hard is What Gets You Fired!

I was sitting home with my son today, when I received a very disturbing call from a friend of mine. She'd been fired. However, it was not for the reasons that would normally cross a person's mind.

Apparently, she worked too HARD! In other words, she made those that were lazy look bad, so the boss probably gave in to office politics, and fired the one worker that could do the work of 5 without complaint. As she was new to this job, in my opinion, they didn't give her the chance to prove herself properly. They told her that they supposedly didn't feel she would be able to handle their "busy" season, whatever the heck that means. Although her training left much to be desired, she still managed to learn what she needed to. Apparently, this wasn't good enough.

I have known my friend for over 5 years now, and I had the chance to work with her myself. It is my opinion that she worked harder than just about anyone else that I have ever worked with, with only a few exceptions. She took her breaks when assigned, she worked hard, she did NOT goof around gossiping or wasting the company's time by surfing the net when she should have been working. She did the work assigned to her, often taking on projects that she really didn't have time to do, but she would do it anyways.

To my increasing dismay, as well as my friend's, she was fired for this. She hadn't done anything wrong, while other employees goofed around on company time, and in general didn't do the jobs they were being paid to do. Yet, their managers, to bring the other employees in line with what is right and ethical, did nothing. They were allowed to continue their behavior, while my friend and I were ultimately the ones who suffered.

For me, this is the epitome of stupidity. I'm sorry, but to me, a company that allows employees to get away with so much unethical behavior, and fires the one worker that never breaks any rules, does as she's told and works hard, should have their proverbial heads examined! I realize that in business there are politics, but my goodness, if you keep firing good employees, it will eventually leave the business to the bad employees.