On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
So one question on the psychological profile for admins might be: A) As an admin do you visualize your role as janitor, hall monitor, or riot patrol ?
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."