There is a thing in the corporate world about employees making a mistake.

[LiberalArkie]

Unless it is real bad, you skate by. HR logs it and keeps recording the mistakes. Until that one time that you do something not really fireable, but someone wants you gone. HR just digs all the little things and the employee is gone or the employee does something they know is wrong, but management wants it done.

People do things they know is wrong, or do not do something they know is right because of this.


Does it apply to Washington? Probably more than anywhere. The people in congress have to get votes. They could not survive if someone dug out 20 year or voicemails, emails or telephone calls.

The patriot act assured that someone has all those records.

[Mopar151]

1. The dirt file!

Kind of skanky, at best. Basically, you build up grounds to fire somebody over whatever chickenshit can be pieced together. "Tardiness" write-ups, too much scrap, failure to bend the knee, a running log of sick calls.....

The theory being, that it is legally preferable to fire someone over a "pattern of behavior" which is easily demonstrated, vs what the stable genius of the moment really did!

I worked in NH which is an "employment at will" state. All an employer has to do is say "There is no work for you today!". Wrongful discharge is still a thing, though, and getting someone gone for the wrong reasons still blows up.