Don't let the door hit you on your way out

Ohio State is tightening its belt for the "new" economy.

"When a classified civil service staff member does not pass probation, and is notified of that decision, practices have varied as to when the actual employment ends. With this practice recommendation, the person will leave our employment the day of notification. We are making this a universal practice which will have no reflection on the individual, and allow for completely consistent process. The individual will be able to move forward immediately for the next job search with no expectation to complete any additional employment in the probationary position."

Isn't this thoughtful. . . allows the ex-employee to move forward immediately.

And this is odd. . . there is a pre-employment background check for all new employees, but no background check for current employees. But wait! It gets better. Current employees are supposed to voluntarily "report convictions for a specified set of offenses that may occur at any time during university employment." Then the university will check on it, decide on how his job should be changed, create a background check record, but destroy the information. Wha. . . .? I guess it's too expensive to do a background check on current employees, so they want her to volunteer the information that just might destroy promotion or career.