On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)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.
--
Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers