TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
Getting fired is a horrible experience. Losing a job is hard on an employee, and terminating an employee can create a whole mess of grief for a company. In a 2018 article for Harvard Business Review, Investopedia CEO David Siegel laid out his strategy to avoid the troubles of termination by offering a more considerate approach to firing: transparent separation. In a transparent separation, when underperforming employees are informed that their tenure with the company is coming to an end, they are given a time frame to look for a new job before their last day. Employees are asked to keep the arrangement confidential and are expected to maintain job performance. Siegel states that employees who abuse the goodwill of transparent separation should be let go immediately.
IS TRANSPARENT SEPARATION RIGHT FOR YOUR COMPANY?
Transparent separation is a wild departure from the traditional termination playbook, but Siegel insists that the strategy offers some incredible benefits, such as the following:
• Departing employees avoid the struggle of trying to find a new job while unemployed. • There’s reduced legal risk that the company might be sued by an angry employee. • Managers are not cast in an adversarial role for abrupt firings.
EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT
DARRELL TURNER’S REASONS TO SMILE
with his brother and recording themselves on their home radio. That radio was Darrell’s most prized possession, but one day, it stopped working. “I couldn’t live without it,” he explains, “but we didn’t have the means to afford a new one.” So a determined young Darrell took the radio apart piece by piece and reconstructed it. “I couldn’t tell you what I did,” he laughs, “But it worked after I put it back together!”
At the end of the day, we here at Pye-Barker are professional problem solvers. Everyone from our sales team to our front desk operators are there to help you and your business find the industrial solutions you need. But when it comes to solving problems with those solutions themselves, only an experienced service technician can get the job done right. That’s why we’re so fortunate to have Darrell Turner on our team! The first thing people notice about Darrell is his optimism. “You’ve got to find a reason to smile,” he explains, “That’s my motto.” Quick to laugh and resiliently upbeat, the former Fort Worth mechanic certainly has a way of raising the spirits of those around him. In a way, Darrell’s positive philosophy directly informs why he loves technician work. “I enjoy the mechanical aspect of the job,” Darrell reflects, “There’s something about seeing something come in broken and being able to fix it that I really enjoy.” Having worked in the industry for 12 years, Darrell is no stranger to mending what others may call broken. In fact, his talent for mechanics reaches further back than his employment history.
All these years later, Darrell’s kept his love of music alive. “I’ve been teaching myself guitar for five years,” he jokes, before explaining that his real passion lies in playing the keyboard and audio engineering. Thankfully for us, it doesn’t sound like Darrell plans to leave us to pursue his music career any time soon. “This is a great place to work,” he tells us, “We’ve got a good product and a great team that pulls together to get the job done.”
“I started fixing things when I was a kid,” Darrell explains, adding, “It was out of necessity.” He was an aspiring musician growing up, beatboxing
Thanks, Darrell!
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