So, if I am reading Taz and Raj Kumar correctly, the company strong armed the employee and asked to post a bond, so now the employee must treat them bad. In other words, if a dog bites us in the rear end, we should bite the dog’s rear! That begs the question, what is the difference? What makes us better and human beings?
Yes, it was unethical for the company to squeeze a distressed employee. No questions! No arguments against it!
If you ask the company, they would blame such employees who bring them business losses and say, it is for their own protection. This is a never ending cycle. Employers treat employees badly because of some employees treating their employers badly. The employees treat their current employers badly because some employer in the past treated them badly. This is never going to end!!
At some point, someone has to take a stand, and say, I am going to be a better person and a better company! From a company's standpoint, they must allow their potential/new employees be ethically and morally correct towards their soon-to-be ex-employers (at the time of hiring). "I am afraid I will lose my new job offer if I don't join them when they ask me. So, I will dump my previous employer mid-stream!". What then is the guarantee for the new employer that this person they are hiring now will not treat them the same in the future?
"If I tell my employer that I am going to a different company, my current employer may influence my new employer and destroy my new job and career." Why such lack of trust? What are companies doing to their employees and what are they gaining by fostering an environment of distrust between employee and employer? I don't get it! Who cares? "If not you, I will find another even better employee. It's not the end of the world for my company", or "If not you, I will find another better employer. It is not the end of the world for me and you are not the only employer in the world". But as long as we are together, let's be loyal to each other and have better relations. When we do part (none of us are married to our jobs, and even real life marriages are not forever these days), we will part in a friendly terms because we want to have a good feeling about each other when we part!
Talking about ideal situations, the real solution to this is change in the attitudes of employees and employers - better business practices, ethical and reasonable conduct towards employees fostering the same in return. Employees treat their employers well in an ethical and reasonable manner, and they receive the same treatment in return!
-SG
Yes, it was unethical for the company to squeeze a distressed employee. No questions! No arguments against it!
If you ask the company, they would blame such employees who bring them business losses and say, it is for their own protection. This is a never ending cycle. Employers treat employees badly because of some employees treating their employers badly. The employees treat their current employers badly because some employer in the past treated them badly. This is never going to end!!
At some point, someone has to take a stand, and say, I am going to be a better person and a better company! From a company's standpoint, they must allow their potential/new employees be ethically and morally correct towards their soon-to-be ex-employers (at the time of hiring). "I am afraid I will lose my new job offer if I don't join them when they ask me. So, I will dump my previous employer mid-stream!". What then is the guarantee for the new employer that this person they are hiring now will not treat them the same in the future?
"If I tell my employer that I am going to a different company, my current employer may influence my new employer and destroy my new job and career." Why such lack of trust? What are companies doing to their employees and what are they gaining by fostering an environment of distrust between employee and employer? I don't get it! Who cares? "If not you, I will find another even better employee. It's not the end of the world for my company", or "If not you, I will find another better employer. It is not the end of the world for me and you are not the only employer in the world". But as long as we are together, let's be loyal to each other and have better relations. When we do part (none of us are married to our jobs, and even real life marriages are not forever these days), we will part in a friendly terms because we want to have a good feeling about each other when we part!
Talking about ideal situations, the real solution to this is change in the attitudes of employees and employers - better business practices, ethical and reasonable conduct towards employees fostering the same in return. Employees treat their employers well in an ethical and reasonable manner, and they receive the same treatment in return!
-SG