02-16-2010
02:16 AM
Any company who states a policy has been a policy for a specified length of time as their defense for their actions, ought to look at their motives. Is it to actually examine whether or not what they did was right or wrong, or simply defend regardless?? Any company at any time can make ANYTHING a policy, that doesn't make that policy right. It actually doesn't even make the policy moral, ethical, or legal for that matter.
If your best defense it to say "we stand by that 25-year-old policy" that's fairly weak! You are neither giving a direct justification for the employees actions in this circumstance, nor are you explaining why the policy is applicable to this instance. So, you fail to defend your employees altogether. They chose him because he was the obvious target, and no else would object.
I have been on the end of "objecting" to a SW Airline policy, and "it is our policy" is the only line anyone ever gives. Never a better reason. So it seems that making up strange policies so employees can misbehave and then you have a way to get out of it, well, standard practice maybe??????
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