Re: [NTLK] OT: I got laid off today

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 00:35:57 EST

on 14/12/02 00:01, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_comcast.net wrote:

> Sorry to hear of your job loss. Hopefully your little green friend has
> numerous contacts on it, one of which will be of assistance to you.
>
> BTW, has anyone else noticed that the trend nowadays seems to be that, in
> the event of layoffs, the person is shown the door that day (or sometimes
> that very hour). Whatever happened to "two weeks notice"? My current
> employer had bucked this trend for a while, allowing folks to take a week or
> two to wrap up any loose ends, pass on their records/files to a remaining
> employee in an orderly fashion, AND to use the company phones and printers
> to try to line up another job. Now, though, there's been changes in
> management and it's the old heave-ho, out the door you go, same-day service
> that everyone else seems to favor. Oh well, maybe I'm just old fashioned.

One of my friend did receive that "treatment". He ended up at the hospital.
That's not very nice at all. In Canada, 2 weeks notice is the law...

-Laurent. 

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