Re: "at will" work state (getting fired - no rights)
 

Some people need their 15 mins of fame..(Thydney stand up and take your bow)....then it all goes quiet again....hi Bob...how is MA treating you.... :)

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Does bringing it up again...trying to get the last word...make you any better? :confused:

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Wasn't she a member here too (the litigation prone lobster)? Or are we talking about someone else?

Re: "at will" work state (getting fired - no rights)
 

I was just reading up about 'at will'...worth a read before taking a job here...
Asked hubby about his place and its 2 weeks notice from both sides....unless there are mass lay off....

Re: "at will" work state (getting fired - no rights)
 

Maybe she should be under the class thread after all lobsters is class they is.

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Shhh she'll sue you :D

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Borrow Rushman's sponge :D

Re: "at will" work state (getting fired - no rights)
 

just in general, chatting about folks on other forums is kind of a no-no and all that.

Re: "at will" work state (getting fired - no rights)
 

Shhhhhhh Bob - you'll be accused of being boring!

Re: "at will" work state (getting fired - no rights)
 

shhhhh people will take the piss :D

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only accused? :D

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:D

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I worked for a very large engineering company. They had a policy of giving two weeks notice and requested the same in return. We were working on a large nuclear power station and the guy heading things for our client was trying to get the state to allow a surcharge to pay part of the construction costs. As a ploy, he held a press conference and suggested that the utility might have to go bankrupt. Our CEO panicked and without consultation, ordered the immediate layoff of the people on the job, over a 1000 engineers and designers. The HR people couldn't fit it in, a friend was leaving at five after five, and was called off the elevator, "Tony got a minute?" so he stepped back off, only to be told he was laid off. Another friend supervised a group of fifty six engineers. After lunch, he called them together and said, "If I didn't tell you, this morning, that you were one of six people staying, you are laid off. Late in the day, he was told to lay another one off.

The interesting thing is that the utility's man who started it was furious because his atetment had been for political effect, nothing else.

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My husbands place would lay off on a Wednesday...so if he was not home by 10 in the morning we had another week of work....it took a year to lay off 250 or more people...on a small place like the Cape that was a lot of man and woman with no chance of finding a good job if they stayed around here...
No-one was marched out the place...they could all stay and use the company PCs for a few weeks to find other jobs etc...and people would come in to help with relocating job finding...writing new CVs stuff like that...

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Lovely tale. Pray tell, how is it that companies expect and demand loyalty when they pull stunts like this? Admittedly, it was a really bad mistake; were any re-hired?