Stop hiring “former employee”s!

Another sad story about a “former employee” yesterday. The guy returns to the workplace, shoots and kills two employees who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Why create more former employees when you can just not hire them in the first place?

Here’s someone who gets fired for bad attendance. My take is that everyone was happier the days he *didn’t* show up. He doesn’t like “ethnics” (I thought we all had ethnicity of one sort or another…) so that’s apparently how he chooses his targets.

Role-Based Assessment would have given you a hint that maybe this was not a guy who’d fit this multicultural workplace.

It’s tough enough, economically speaking, when you hire people who become ex-employees because they quickly find a better job. It’s worse when you have to fire people because they don’t like the job YOU didn’t give them accurate information on. But when you create former employees who return angry because their view of what this workplace should be is so radically different than the vision, mission and values you want your employment brand to project, and the outcome is murder, it’s just tragic.