You are an employee at Basic Psych. Basic Psych employs thousands of mental health therapists who operate across several dozen walk-in therapy centers scattered across the globe.
Unless you are and old, established player... Basic Psych’s central command regularly moves you between the various centers depending on the needs of the company. At every center, the Centre Manager attempts to cultivate unconditional loyalty to the company and to the CEO.
During your first three weeks at Basic Psych, you are massively overworked and the management regularly (and without much warning) re-locates you from center to center.
Every time you join a center (however briefly), you are required to join the Chat Group on WhatsApp for that center (where the team can exchange pleasantries within the confines of organizational correctness and receive commands, updates and orders from the CM).
Every time you are assigned to a new center, the CM (who is the chat admin) will unceremoniously remove you from the group chat so that when you check again it says “you have been removed from the group.”
There is no customary waiting period for you to remove yourself, as soon as the order comes down that you will be re-deployed (and often hours before because the CM often gets the word before you even do), you are removed.
Now the discussion is this... is this a “rude practice” or is it within the lines of civility? As an employee, how would you personally feel? Why?
Your options:
1. It is rude practice. I take a high level of offense (at least for the first few times)
2. It is rude practice I take a medium level of offense (at least for the first few times)
3. It is rude practice. I take a low level of offense (at least for the first few times)
4. It is rude practice. I am not offended at all.
5. It falls within lines of civility. However, I take a medium level of offense (at least for the first few times)
6. It falls within lines of civility. However, I take a low level of offense (at least for the first few times)
7. It falls within lines of civility. I am not offended at all.
I’d go with option 3. I think there should be a practice where a few hours is allowed for the person to leave by themselves. I take a bit of offense at checking my phone and suddenly seeing “you are removed from the group” but it’s something I can get used to and for which I’d only take a bit of offense.