You can usually work it out from the leaving collection. if there is
one then they have resigned. No collection means requested to leave for
one reason or another.
Let's not mince words over redundancy either. Redundancy is dismissal
because someone else got it wrong. Being fired is because you got it
wrong. but neither of those gets a leaving collection!
Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <CCE9B30553684619BAE4FDD2831C8E53@Portable>, at 09:46:18 on
> Thu, 5 Feb 2009, J.S.M.Whitaker <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> I think that it would be quite oppressive to identify as
>> "dismissed". I'm
>> sure some people might argue that including them in a "left" list
>> would be
>> doubtful.
>
> Another angle is that if the organisation routinely publishes lists of
> people who have "left", and yet it's clear that someone who wasn't on
> that list is no longer employed, then the remaining staff will often
> (I have seen this happen) assume (probably quite rightly) that the
> person in question was dismissed and the company was trying to
> airbrush them from history.
>
> In fact, it sometimes becomes quite a fun game, especially when the
> people concerned are at a high level and you really would expect to
> have been told they'd gone, rather than just wandering past an empty
> office one day.
>
> To bring an IT aspect into this, some organisations have a culture of
> people emailing to say they are leaving, and generally wishing their
> former colleagues well. Conclusions can often be drawn by the timing
> of such announcements (planned, sudden etc), and whether or not they
> were posted by the person themselves or the HR department referring to
> them in the 3rd person...
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