There is no culture of dismissal in the former Soviet Union. Rather, there is a special “lack of culture of dismissal”, which is due to the fact that Soviet society rarely fired/laid off people, and if someone needed to be removed, they triggered a bullying mechanism - the person had to be compromised first, then their behavior at the meeting analyzed, and then, with a pure heart, this “scoundrel” could be disgracefully expelled from the team. In our post-totalitarian countries — Russia, Latvia, Kazakhstan and Belarus — laws that would protect employees from the arbitrariness of the employer do not work. As a litmus test, the economic crisis revealed the inability of victim society to resolve labor conflicts associated with mass layoffs in a civilized manner. Now they are fired either quietly and despicably, or, accusing the departure candidate of all deadly sins without renewing his contract, or they wash the resisting employee into powder. And life is constantly giving examples of every such illegal way of reducing people. For almost a year now, the Russian State University for the Humanities has been buzzing about the despicable and unjustified layoffs of high-class teachers. TsAGI lost 200 employees at a time, and one can only wonder what personal tragedies the dismissed specialists are going through. The Culture channel will lose 30% of its employees. I can assume that most of those dismissed will not fight and defend their right to be laid off under the articles of the Labor Code that are most beneficial to them. During the layoffs, the management will stick their heads in the sand of the beaches of Spain and Turkey, and specially hired “optimizers” or office “little skuratovs” will do lawlessness. Unfortunately, a rare employee would want to write to the media about what was happening at his workplace at the time of his dismissal. But in vain! It is necessary to write about this, because ignoring these problems makes employers even more impudent, reveling in their impunity. Let's all fight together and protect our self-esteem and professional dignity. I suggest that those people who have gone through or are now going through the hell of illegal layoffs air their dirty laundry out of their “huts”, as Anastasia did in the article “Layoffs at Kultura” - how it happened. The story of an eyewitness”.https://storia.me/ru/@anastasia.komarovskaya/beskulture-2fv1oh/uvolneniya-na-kulture-kak-eto-bylo-ra... P.S. I always try to find iconic illustrations for publications on the site. In Leon Bonn's painting “The Martyrdom of St. Dionysius” (1874-1888) depicts the moment when, according to legend, he did not want to renounce his faith and was executed by pagans on a hill in Paris called Montmartre (“mountain of martyrs”). He was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis. But the legend says that Saint Dionysius did not die right away, but picked up his head and walked to the temple, where he fell lifeless. He continued to preach along the way.
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