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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
Good for her I can't say I would have done the same in the corporate world. My job? Yes and I have done it, I just quietly quit after I snuck out all of my customer files | |||
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Could have sued her employer for age discrimination. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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| Leftists, what more needs to be said? |
Good for her. Claiming sanctimony while trying to screw long standing employees. Serves them right. I hope they were dumb enough to not have her sign an NDA. She could capitalize on that a few months down the road. Sell your autograph one last time. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Bet you they ended up hiring 2-3 people to do that job after the 25 year old quit.  | |||
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| Leftists, what more needs to be said? |
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I've never had that happen to me personally but I have seen it happen three or four times over my career. I've never seen a successful "train your superior" scenario work out well. | |||
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| Internet Guru |
Doesn't seem like this situation worked out very well for anyone involved. | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
Car dealer I was a parts manager for pulled a similar number. Cut both the service manager and my pay plan, change was a 33% loss. Dealer literally told me that he was disappointed that I wouldn’t give the new plan a fair chance as I left within two months. Took time to sell our home, set up interviews back east as things were few and far between in the Southwest. Anyhow, one of the dealers sons decided that he was going to make one of his pals who he hired as a salesman the new parts manager as he couldn’t sell refrigerators in the desert. The newly designated parts manager comes to me and told me that he was my replacement and wanted me to teach him how to read the catalogs, work the counter and how to be a parts manager, all the processes, etc., in two weeks. My response was “Not my job, I’m not a teacher, I’m a manager. The next two weeks I’m devoting to running my department, managing my staff, selling parts, keeping the shop moving and that’s all.” He protested, saying that the dealers son promised that I’d teach him. I looked at him and said “Sink or swim buddy, not my problem” all the while expecting to get the boot that afternoon. Well I didn’t and two weeks later,he walked in cold turkey. He lasted three days…..don’t know how he made it that long. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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delicately calloused |
I wonder. What if she trained the other employee but not very well. They couldn’t really punish her for not being good at training I think. That way she keeps her job until she can find another to comfortably move to…. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Honky Lips |
Once I've been told no, I will not give my expertise away and have and will continue to allow management to look foolish for their decisions. _____________________________________________ Proverbs 3:31 "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." | |||
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| Leftists, what more needs to be said? |
My wife’s first job after college was a good paying job. She was there for 15 years and the third highest paid employee in her department. When the economy started tanking, instead of working with their employees, they started screwing with them. They did shady stuff to the higher paid employees to get rid of them, starting with the highest salaried. They started berating my wife when it was her turn. 13 straight years of excellent reviews and suddenly her job performance was horrible. It was all lies and it was cruel. Training her replacement, PIP (Performance Improvement Program). They were set to fire her but her replacement quit before they did. So it was another year of lies and PIP before they fired her. She signed up for unemployment and the company tried to deny it. When the lady on the phone interrupted my wife and asked, “How long were you employed there mam”, my wife responded 15 years and the woman laughed and told her approximately when she should be expecting her first unemployment check. If the stress wouldn’t have hurt my wife I would have sued them for what they did. All they had to do is approach my wife and see if they could have adjusted salary or reduced hours, or anything honest. My wife would have been open working with them. The option they chose was just wrong on every level. | |||
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The company I worked for refused to promote from within, people with 15 years experience. Hire plant managers with zero experience. After the shit hit the fan the VP of our region asked me and another guy about why we didn't help, I looked him in the eye and said I was told to "shut up and do what your told". Plant manager quit and they hired another guy with zero experience. LOL! I'm glad I'm out of that game. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Good for her! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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To Corporate, we're all just numbers on a balance sheet. | |||
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Good for her !!  | |||
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Shaman |
There's no I in team. But there is in quIt.  He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
For better or worse, that's true. But there's a humane process to deal with personnel cuts and an indecent way. I've been in monthly senior management meetings when, if the top line number (sales) wasn't going to be met for the quarter, the subtle hint was dropped by the division president that the bottom line (profit margin) should at least still be met. The only way to meet profit targets when sales are going to be missed is to cut costs and for the areas tasked with making sales, it means laying off people in the sales organization. It's just carrying out management's responsibility to the company's stakeholders. I still keep my RSUs from that company because it's a well-run company. But, again, there's a decent way to go about it without manufacturing reasons to fire people. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Exact situation happened to a friend of mine years back. He sued and won. He never said how much but he ended up living on a 40 ft sailboat in Florida. He named the boat after the guy that fired him “Mikes Mistake” | |||
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Sounds like she works for Northrop Grumman, in the Global Hawk. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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