The thing I find most baffling about the McNeil story is the time frame. He’s forced out two years after the alleged incident—and there have been no new complaints in the intervening years? What an utter failure of management.
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This kind of time lag (it has occurred in many other cases) is proof that, whatever the company claims, the person wasn't actually fired for the incident in question, but because the company feared bad publicity about it.
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Someone should write about this phenomenon and give a name to the time gap. Then there would be something concrete to accuse employers of when they did it.
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Mind the gap
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There's never a statute of limitations when this sort of contrived case has to be made, look how Cavanaugh's yearbook was dredged up.
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Is anyone really surprised that companies will always do whatever is best for their bottom line at any given time? Even when the morally right choice is identifiable, it has been shown countless times that they will always do what's best for them.
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Or that they wanted to get rid of the person anyway and this is a useful excuse. Or that a new unrelated reason showed up. Or some other bad-faith excuse.
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This is why we need a cooling off period for these PR firings. I bet 80% wouldn't happen because fears would recede. On the flip side, the people who want them fired know all too well the value of striking while the iron is hot, so expect some resistance.
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They cared about the internal staff reaction, not the public reaction. I don't believe they're deluded enough to think the public reaction to firing him would be better than the reaction to the original statement.
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