自我辞退 / Self-Resignation

Author: Dexin Kong
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3831-5725
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AI Automatic Translation (Unreviewed)

Event

Sometime around 2021, though the exact date is hard to remember now, a small “incident” happened at a company where the author once worked.

At the time, the company’s CEO and the administrative manager had already been in friction for quite a while due to long-standing differences in management style and ways of working.

Eventually, the CEO decided to dismiss her.

Originally, this was supposed to be nothing more than a routine personnel matter.

But very quickly, a subtle problem appeared.

Because for a long time, this manager had been responsible for two core tasks:

• Human resources management
• Organizing the CEO’s daily signature documents

So after the CEO decided to terminate her employment, the person who was actually responsible for carrying out the termination process was still… herself.

And from that point on, things started to feel strange.

She drafted her own termination agreement.

She negotiated a generous compensation package with herself.

She organized her own handover process.

She prepared her own approval documents.

The next morning, as usual, she delivered the prepared documents to the CEO’s office for signature.

And the CEO, just like he had done countless times before, signed them quickly.

Only later, when the finance department submitted the payment request, did the CEO realize something was wrong.

But the entire process was reasonable, compliant, and legal.

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