On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
If I was a janitor and was fired because I reported being harassed by another janitor, and policy was to avoid complaints by firing all people involved in the complaint, I'd think that was wrong. It wouldn't make any difference that being a janitor is a low status job; being fired is being fired. It also wouldn't make any difference if you said "it's not a punishment, we didn't fire you, we just laid you off. We feel that it would be less stressful for you to not have a job that is obviously unpleasant to you anyway."
While I understand and agree with the point being made, I feel it necessary to point out that admins are not paid. Firing you from your job means you aren't making any income and can't support yourself until you find another. Removing someone's admin bit has zero effect on your income (unless doing admin things on Wikipedia is your job, in which case you're either a WMF employee or shouldn't be an admin).
It may even have a positive impact on income cause you'll be less likely to get fired from your IT job for spending all day editing Wikipedia. :)
*ahem*
The effect on someone's stress level could go either way -- you're either done worrying about conflict things or you're pissed that you've been de-sysopped and will raise hell. So de-sysopping for the sake of reduced stress isn't a valid point anyway.