Transition sparks group firing

[NVMojo]

Red state job retention efforts gain friends, the repugs who will get the open jobs.....

Starting a house-cleaning that likely will play out in many state departments, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s (Repug) staff fired 32 economic development employees Thursday.
The firings left many former employees angry, they said, because the terminations were disrespectful, cold and "corporate."
Huntsman Chief of Staff Jason Chaffetz, however, described the process as "standard operating procedure" during a gubernatorial transition.
The workers, who as a group had been asked to sign resignations, received word by e-mail Thursday whether their "resignation had been accepted." Those fired constituted the majority of 56 "at will" employees not covered by civil-service protection.


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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2517269

[recovering democrat]

1. Transitions can be very emotional.

I just wanted to add this sentence from the same quoted link:

People shown the door were asked first to attend a group meeting with Chaffetz, during which a state trooper was stationed outside the door and the workers' state computer access was immediately blocked.

SOP when people are losing their jobs whether for cause or at-will political transitions.