The question is WHY????? Public has a right to know why these people were fired. To hell with law suits we have the right to know why? No excuse RE, spit it out like a man!
Supervisor-boss-leader all require traits of ingenious, quickwitted, keen in bargaining, smartness, cleverness honesty and fairness. All of these traits are and were missing with regards to this fire job fiasco! Transparency is and was zero.
Supervisors are required to give and make job status interviews with employees under them. These need to be performed every 6 months in most cases. Upon doing these person to person interviews that follow an employees job description, faults are pointed out along with exceptional work and during the subsequent meetings the faults are noted as improved, still need work, or are a dismal failure. These are a short version of what NEEDS to occur in able to dismiss workers, give raises etc. All Fed. State and county workers should fall under this type of system. I have roughly pointed out the system. We use a similar system in the private companies we own (more sophisticated) but you get the point.
Now, if that is followed, employees are saved from angry hip shooters that are mad at the time and can not fire a employee on a spur of the moment anger. This is why I am so damn mad at the results in this case. If they should be fired and it is shown on reviews with them, then by all means get rid of them.
I'd fire myself twice a day. My anger and disgust can blind a person. A reasonable way exists to dismiss people and not have a great big hulabalu over it. Royce is and was wrong. I am not saying he should not have fired these guys but this was tacky. Way over the top by a person in his shoes.
The public needs to know. I want to know. Thanks to Tokyo for this Q and A.