PeterMacKenzie wrote:
Scoots5012 wrote:
Anyways most jobs had minimum rate at which we had to work, usually 350 - 500 pieces per hour. But the fastest I could ever go before I would start to make mistakes and fumble with the pieces was about 300 pieces. As a result, I was constantly being yelled at by the plant owner who was an old fat guy with a 50 inch waste line and pants up to the chest which were held up with suspenders.
One day he came up to me and told me I was fired and to get the hell out of the place before he called the police. I was rather peeved at his curt attitude towards me the whole time I was there, and I gave him a gesture of my own as I left the place.
<Is reminded of the crappiness of the world>
Here it's illegal (and enforcably so) for them to do that. Are there any charities or organisations you could contact to check out your rights for if that sort of thing happens again?
Where I live this sort of things is also unthinkable.
If an employer wants to get rid of someone and fires him, he takes the risk to get involved in a juridical procedure and in that case he needs some very good reasons, why he fired that person. If an employer fires somebody and he can´t give sufficient reasons (e.g. the employee is steeling or not functioning, which is difficult to prove) this will cost the employer a lot of money.
So he will think twice before firing somebody.
I understand this doesn´t help you much if your rights are not protected that way though, but you should definitely investigate what your rights really are and whether a diagnosis of AS will help you in some way or another.
30 Jul 2005, 11:12 am
