If you know a co-worker is going to get fired...

[pontifex]

Sounds like what happened to my fiance. She did more work than anyone else in the dept, helped the most people, was more reliable (made the fewest mistakes), but her boss tried squeezing her out because she didn't engage in small talk about what happened on last night's episode of Lost or something similar She didn't fall into the clique the supervisor was trying to set up and she ended up getting treated unfairly for it. Her meth-addict co worker did no work and took 2 hour long breaks and never got reprimanded for it.

Long story short, she (my fiance) didn't nip the situation in the bud, got forced into an awkward corner and ended up looking for a new (and much better, I might add), so it worked out, I guess.

good guys finish last.

 

[kalrith]

The anonymous note would be the only way. I've known that coworkers were going to get fired months before it happened before, but my company offers a good severance package, so I saw no need to interfere. In your situation there might be that need, but you absolutely, definitely don't want anyone (including her) to know that you slipped her the note and gave her the heads up.

 

[Fizzorin]

1: Go to employee's boss.
2: Tell boss you know she's going to be induced into quitting
3: Ask when it will happen
4: Get a lawnchair, some popcorn, and a prime spectating position

1: Go to employee's boss
2: Tell boss you know she's going to be induced into quitting
3: Intimate that the press would be very interested
4: Tell him you can make this go away for a 55-gallon drum of Trolli Gummi Worms
5: Let boss know that you've left instructions with your priest to open your safe deposit box and go straight to the police if anything should "happen" to you

 

[lxskllr]

There are no changes an employer can make to truly get one to quite.

Of course they can. They can move you to graveyard shift at the branch office that's 75 miles away, with no interstates nearby. They're giving you a choice. Is that really a reasonable choice?

 

[FoBoT]

try to get her monitor before the IT guys take it

 

[Kadarin]

Let me guess, she only wears 10 peices of flare? Damm I hate people liek that.

If you wear too much flare, you'll probably catch on fire or something.

 

[Kadarin]

try to get her monitor before the IT guys take it

^^ Yes, and this.

 

[El Guaraguao]

deadman walking.

write it on a piece of paper and tape it to her back. ^_^

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

NO, never again, I tried doing that more than once. Even though sometimes they themselves see it comming they are in denial. I have failed to convince them to move out before they
get fired or laid off and eventually when they did, it became an awkward situation and they kind of started avoiding me. I guess that's a part of reason for which they getting laid off/fired in the first place, that's the attitude which gets then in that situation to begin with... Now I don't do it anymore, even last week someone was let go and I knew in advance, this time i just played dumb...

Thanks guys I think I'm going to stay out of it. Too risky for me.

rudder and AMDHunter put the nails on the coffin -- though I was tempted to try the ski mask 'method'.

Spoken like good little cubicle monkeys. You guys working or serving 10 to life?

 

[TheRickRoller]

Forget the ski mask method, take a leaf out of Morpheus' book.

 

[JulesMaximus]

And the company has a history of making unreasonable (but legal?) changes to make quitting the only logical choice, would you tell that person what's up?

I feel bad that they are wanting to throw her out...

Keep your mouth shut stupid.