A jobless man. [Photo/pinterest]
Becoming jobless has never been easier. Finding a job in Kenya as indeed everywhere else is slowly becoming a sea to drink. This can be attributed to the awful imbalance of the multitudes of job seekers juxtaposed against limited vacancies, which make securing work more like the Biblical parable of a camel going through the eye of a needle.
Now that finding a job is as strenuous as it is difficult, those employed are naturally predisposed to guarding their source of income with their life. However, as the narratives teach, losing a job is much easier than you dare imagine.
Masabumi Hosono was the only Japanese man on the Titanic, a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean killing thousands. When the ship started to sink, Hosono became among the lucky few who managed to hop into a lifeboat, escaping the horror of sinking with the ship in the ice-cold Atlantic waters. Apparently, he suffered for his survival.
The Japanese media called him a chicken who had “deceived the samurai life-force of self-denial.” Later, Hosono lost his job for the dishonor of tragedy survival.
Amongst the key grounds to fire, an employee include how the employee carries along with his or her duties that are hard to solve no matter how much effort is put in. But, additional reasons exist to fire an employee that is not reasonable and logical.
In record cases, a problematic staff is advised and given cautions first orally, then in a script. The dismissal is done with a lot of thought and homework, and shouldn’t really come as an amazement to the staff.