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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
Wow thats obscene.

I remember a website called "fxxxedcompany.com" where people would post egregious examples of crap like this from the dotcom bust in the early 2000's. Such as you and some of your colleagues would be called to a conference room and told you were fired, led to the exit and your personal items were in a box in the parking lot.

There was a whole movie made about this; Up In The Air

George Clooney was a guy hired by companies to be the ax man, I thought it was a pretty good movie:

I remember that movie - he was the guy chasing his 1M airmiles !!

Darth Vader did it better...

Does it really matter? Fired is fired. It sucks.

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Come on you cannot be serious. Imagine your doctor telling you that you have cancer and walking out. A little compassion please.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
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Come on you cannot be serious. Imagine your doctor telling you that you have cancer and walking out. A little compassion please.

Cancer does not equal fired. Plus, your doctor stands in a far different relationship to you than does your employer.

I'm not sayiung this is the nicest way to do this, but does it really matter?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
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Come on you cannot be serious. Imagine your doctor telling you that you have cancer and walking out. A little compassion please.

Are you really comparing a cancer diagnosis to losing a job at some stupid little nothing company?

Cancer does not equal fired. Plus, your doctor stands in a far different relationship to you than does your employer.
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I feel you are minimizing job loss. I have seen it kill people. Handling termination poorly is a recipe for workplace violence. Not everbody handles termination like a middle class attorney who is easily employable elsewhere.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
"Work from home" is a leftist scam to concentrate on everything but work.

These slackers are the bane of my existence, turning in shoddy, hurried work at the last possible minute.

They are too focused on their recreation, than being productive.

Highly disagree on this point. I'm in sales, work from home, and I get a ton of work done, and really have to keep myself from working past time. In the office, I would take breaks, leave for lunch, etc. Now I eat lunch in the office, and don't take nearly as many breaks. I also travel so only 1-2 office days a week.

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"Work from home" is a leftist scam to concentrate on everything but work.

Preposterous nonsense.

I work from home, after I've put in a ten hour day, and get home, and my boss who just came in at 3:30 starts texting me, so I remote back to the office and start running reports and answering questions for him.

Yea, I work from home OLD SCHOOL.

This is why I bought me another semi truck last month. After three years of punching somebody else's clock, I'm thinking about going back to being self-employed. Sure, my boss was a dick when I was self-employed, but I at least understand the way he thinks.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
Layoffs are customarily done just before Christmas.

Back in my days supervising a section, I had to do it a couple of times.

Really sucked.

Happened twice to me in Commercial radio, fired two weeks before Christmas. Got a nice settlement from one radio station owner and Unemployment Comp from the other.

Friends wondered why I then left Commercial Radio to work in state civil Service.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Cancer does not equal fired. Plus, your doctor stands in a far different relationship to you than does your employer.
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I feel you are minimizing job loss. I have seen it kill people. Handling termination poorly is a recipe for workplace violence. Not everbody handles termination like a middle class attorney who is easily employable elsewhere.

I have terminated and laid off many resources, many of whom I have liked. There is no place in this day and age for anything but the script that HR hands you. Say something wrong and you could be looking at a law suit...rightful or not.

Awesome Gutfeld segment about this mass firing:

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
Highly disagree on this point. I'm in sales, work from home, and I get a ton of work done, and really have to keep myself from working past time.

I also travel so only 1-2 office days a week.

Just to clarify, you're like me in that you are a 'remote' employee. There's 'office', 'home', and 'remote' jobs with remote being the most challenging to handle as you're working from some new/different location likely with totally new/different people at least weekly. The people who live and thrive in this environment are not your garden variety "work from home" crew.

I think many employees sent home as part of this pandemic BS were and still are, totally ill-equipped to function outside the office environment. They need the structure and supervision of that setting to be even remotely productive.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
"Work from home" is a leftist scam to concentrate on everything but work.

These slackers are the bane of my existence, turning in shoddy, hurried work at the last possible minute.

They are too focused on their recreation, than being productive.

Highly disagree on this point. I'm in sales, work from home, and I get a ton of work done, and really have to keep myself from working past time. In the office, I would take breaks, leave for lunch, etc. Now I eat lunch in the office, and don't take nearly as many breaks. I also travel so only 1-2 office days a week.

Ayup. I worked from home while working for a couple of networking companies. Average was probably between 70 & 80 hours a week. Sure it was on me that I had no concept of balance, but I worked a ton more than the vast majority of those who worked in the office. If it weren’t for stock options, it would have been a really lousy deal.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
I work from home, after I've put in a ten hour day, and get home, and my boss who just came in at 3:30 starts texting me, so I remote back to the office and start running reports and answering questions for him.

Yea, I work from home OLD SCHOOL.

This is why I bought me another semi truck last month. After three years of punching somebody else's clock, I'm thinking about going back to being self-employed. Sure, my boss was a dick when I was self-employed, but I at least understand the way he thinks.

I always said that the beauty of working for oneself was not that the boss didn’t make stupid-assed mistakes (because he still did), but that when the boss made a stupid-assed mistake you could actually fix it instead of being stuck with it.

Since I’ve never had to fire 900 people at one time, what is the proper way for 1 person to do this? Text, email or?

It is silly to have one person handle the task. Typically termination is delegated to the middle managers who meet with each person individually.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
11MM jobs available right now … get to work

Career counselor told me today that "everyone is hiring" which is weird because I can't even get an interview.

Unless you want to work in a restaurant, fast food, hospitality or have nursing credentials, I'm calling bullshit on this "great job market."

The people with the good jobs aren't quitting.