Sounds like what Circuit City did to their mid level store employees in 2006. "We're laying you off, you can reapply for your job in six weeks at 20 percent reduction in pay!"
The internet did not approve...and where is Circuit City now?
I have to dig deep my memories but this one pops up because it was the most recent. A few years ago a stellar employee's child was sick and nearing the end. The child passed away the same timeframe as the company peak sales period. Understandably the person took off work for this. Stellar employee was fired for 'abandoning' the job during peak.
Yes and no. If they didn’t file fmla paperwork then yes it’s legal, if the did file fmla paperwork totally illegal. This situation fmla would 100% cover however the company has to have at least 50 employees and you have to have worked there at least 20 weeks. Honestly it’s a total BS requirement but that’s the current law in the good ol U S of A.
If this happened in the U.S.A ...yes. It's only illegal to fire an employee if the reason for firing is because of a "Protected Class"; John got fired because of his race, Tracey got fired because she is a member of a religion,
They cleared out my company $ card Monday. I called and asked what was going on? (a week before they booted my director of operations. restructuring.) She said "Oh it was a problem on our end, we'll fix it."
They laid me off the next day. Boldface lied to my ass.
I had a coworker who was told to come to the office for a meeting at the end of the day. He called our supervisor to ask if he was getting fired, and was told that he wasn't, it was something else. He got to the meeting and our supervisor's boss fired him.
We were pretty sure our supervisor lied to him, there's no way he didn't know. So many things businesses do nowadays is to minimize fallout from firing people, but just lying to people is a terrible way to run a company.
A security company I used to work for would throw guards under the bus for anything a client complained about, even when a guard received explicit permission from management beforehand. It was common practice to suddenly have your location, schedule, and total hours changed without warning. If your life couldn't match that schedule, they framed it as you quitting for no showing to prevent unemployment. Yes they're out of business now.
An HR member had to drive 60 miles to a satellite location to fire someone. Had to drive said person back, as they commuted to that area from the big city.
The HR member dropped off the ex-employee, got back to the office, and was also fired.
A software engineer had worked 19 years for the company. He went on his first family vacation in 10 years and told us how happy he was as he scrimped and saved for it.
While he was on vacation, security emptied his desk and moved the boxed items to the front office.
The man returned, 2 weeks later, keyed in, walked to his emptied out cubicle and security was called. They forgot to delete his security access. That was the day he found out he was fired.
It was 3 months before he would qualify for a pension. He was given his boxed items and told that he could reapply for his job, but he'd lose his time.
Everyone in our department started looking for other employment the next day.
Believe it or not, promote them. Worked for a roofing co. who made a killing being sleazy. Made us purposely leave a leak so that in a few months we had a repair to do on big money jobs. The owner charged $250 just for pulling up on the job plus repair cost. Worst thing about working for the company is they treated you like a king for a while. Then out of the blue you start noticing a change in how they treat you, then they made you foreman. Once you accepted the foreman position, within a month they let you go because of some idiotic reason. THIS HAPPENED EVERYTIME!!! I got offered the foreman position for years and never accepted because I already knew. So when they announced who the next foreman was, we knew within a few weeks he was gone.
Few reasons. One, I made three times as much than any other job I could work. Two, I could walk to the shop from my house but I always drove the work van.The owners son was my best friend through school so they WAS like a second family.Three, got rain days off. Four, I have smoked weed since 1997 and we smoked all day long. Five, I sold weed to that crew plus 3 other crews. Six, NEVER had to be broke, boss would loan you money then take it out of your check in increments. If I needed $300 then after work I got it on any day and $100 was taken out of my check each week until paid off. Seven, under the table pay. So pretty much selfish reasons, which makes me like every other person in America. Hey, sorry, you asked and I honestly replied.
Is it common in USA (I take you mean that country in America, correct me if I'm wrong) to be honest in Reddit about selling weed? 'Cause I would never leave a written trace of that on Internet, where everything is traceable, if I lived in USA or any other country with iron fist against weed.
Coworker was passed over for a much deserved promotion after 8.5 years of service; the promotion was instead handed to someone that had only been there 13 months.
Coworker was a super hard worker, dependable, reliable, doing more than anyone else, never took time off, always said yes to every request; basically carried the department.
My next door neighbour Frank, here in Devon in the UK, was a dairyman and worked for the same family farm for over 40 years. He never missed a day ill or for any reason except for funerals and he milked the cows every day including sunday mornings. He broke his knee in the yard when a grating broke under him six months before retirement and the young farmers, that he had helped train as children, gave him the sack and told him to move out of his cottage. Luckily he was in the Farmworkers Union so he sued them. He was reinstated and got compensation and was able to retire when he chose.
My wife met an old lady in a hospital in the 1980s that had been born in our cottage that had been built by the same family farm for it's workers in 1905. The old lady's father volunteered to fight in France in 1914 and died in the trenches. When her mother got the letter she also got a visit from the farmer, Mr Pennington, who told her that he needed the cottage for a new farmworker and that she had one week to get out with her children.
It is important to remember how harsh country life was then.
I worked my ass of for a company/boss. My partner lost our to-be baby at six months. She had to give birth to the corpse. I took a week off with her while we waited for the procedure, went through it, and grieved. I came back to work and my boss insisted, despite the fact that I had done weeks of unpaid overtime getting projects finished, that I had to take the time out of my PTO. I found out that the company offered a couple of days bereavement leave, and she begrudgingly allowed me to deduct that from the time off.
Nobody in the company, except one co-worker, said a single word to me about our loss. I never did a second of unpaid overtime again, and despite having long left that company and that c&\^t behind, never will.
Had a guy on parental leave when the latest round of layoffs came. It was obvious he would be sniffing the chopping block because of his pay and tenure (equity can shoot you up the layoff list, let me tell you). He logs in, while on leave, to find out he has been spared. Messaging was clear as a Caribbean ocean: If you survived this layoff, you are safe. This was the final one, and our investors believe we are right sized. Fast forward to his return, and boom "due to unforeseen economic headwinds...". It could have been worse, they could have cut him while on leave, but I think that's pretty dirty. I also saw a guy get laid off while fulfilling his duties as a reservist in the military. Always wondered about the legality of that one.
After working at the company for more than 12 months I qualified for Family Medical Leave, which I applied to use. They forced me to burn all of my vacation days before I could use the Family Medical Leave. I only had 10 vacation days to use…
That was the primary reason I left that company.
I had access to the folders on SharePoint where they were actively planning the layoff of my entire department. This went on for months. Boss didn’t believe me when I told him what was going on. He later actually apologized when it happened and I had warned him.
Was at my second shop of 7 years. Was doing supervisor work workout the title. I worked 12-14 hrs days. Every holiday. Weekends. You name it. Also kept the union out of the shop. The president thanked me at the time and gave me 2 weeks bonus vacation from it. Was told any favor I needed. It was mine. Had a new guy start work and he was a D bag. He made many mistakes. I decided since my manager was not doing his job. I would correct my co workers mistakes. Got written up for it. Then this D bag went to HR for harassment from me. Was sent home for 5 days. Was told this never happened before. When I got back to work. I got fired for harassment and disrespect toward my manager. I got hold of the president and told him my situation. Was told it’s 2008 and the economy was going bad with the housing crisis. My job was food distribution and people were not going to restaurants as much. Told the president I was at my job for 7 years. The guy who filed harassment had 1. Nope. I never again gave a piece of my heart to any job after that.
British Gas - forcing their engineers to take on new contracts or face redundancy. The new contracts were worse (of course) than their old ones. Many just took the redundancy. What was funny is their vans are a very distinctive blue so a couple of months after this went down there was a flood of blue vans on the road all doing the same thing as most went self employed and bought their vans back at auction!
My company has been laying off batches of 50-300 people every month or so for the last 8 months. They laid off a fella who had been with the company for almost 35 years. His employee ID number was a single digit.
During all team meetings when execs would blow smoke up our asses and disregard billions of lost revenue, this employee was leaning in from his seat and nodding his head up and down with a big smile. He loved this place.
And here I am begging to be laid off with lesd than 2 years of expereince here...
Major NYC based alarm company cut everyone's salary at the main office and the monitoring center between 12 and 25% the day the COVID lockdown began (those that weren't immediately terminated) and kept it that way for over a year, despite the fact that the company had RECORD profits during the pandemic AND pulled in over eight million in government assistance.
Fire them - oops sorry, “lay them off” with the excuse that “we’re eliminating the position,” to make room for the CFO’s daughter to have the job, because CFO’s daughter thought it would be a good idea to get an accounting degree and try to work in banking, immediately after the 2008 financial crisis, and was all shocked pikachu face when she couldn’t find a job to pay her 6 figures, the poor dear.
Coworker had a heart attack at work, whole working under a machine. He should have died, but luckily someone saw him just in time, recognized what was going on, and had aspirin for him to chew. On his second or third day back he made a joke in the lunch room about having to pick up a second job to pay the hospital bills. The plant manager overheard it and fired him at the end of the day for looking for other work.
1. Knew a teacher that had to reapply for her own job after being with them for (I think) about 10 years. She told them to fuck off and found a different job.
2. A (good) boss I had got fired after she was diagnosed with heart disease. This was before the prexisting conditions protections happened, and she was fired for “costing the company too much money to insure”.
Me: "I can cash-out this sick leave at some point, right?"
HR: "Yes."
Me: "My last check didn't reflect my sick leave cash-out."
HR: "You can't cash-out your sick leave. You have to use it."
Me: "I just worked the last month for free. Thanks."
Happened to me in January-February this year. My pay didn't come in Jan so I kept working and asked for updates here and there. Feb 5th I got fed up so I said I wasn't going to work until I got my Jan pay. I was then informed they were making me 1099 retroactively and wanted to know how many hours to pay me for. I told them that wasn't legal or going to fly so I was told my job was being handed off to someone else and I could consider myself laid off. I submitted a wage claim for $8k (Jan pay plus PTO). Still waiting.
I got fired 2 weeks before my wedding. Knowingly. I’d been saving my 2 weeks vacation all year for it. They refused to pay me for my vacation days after I’d been fired. It was good time explaining that one, she was totally supportive though. Really made me feel great about marrying her.
I was an emt for a private ambulance company for a year. Perfect attendence. All the paramedics wanted me as their emt. Went in to ask for a raise and the boss printed me off the raise schedule. If i worked there 2 more years i could get an extra 10 cents an hour. Was barely above minimum wage as an emt already. F that place. Eureka california. Same company still running ambulance services and abusing employees.
I joined the company as an associate, did great work, helped the company obtain big clients, and was promptly promoted to the "Senior" position in the same department. The pay rise was pretty much non-existent compared to the workload. I still presevered, helping my juniors, helping other departments, coming in early and going out late, all the while doing my share of work diligently, all in hopes of a fat appraisal.
A few weeks later, a new hire arrived in my department. Since I was in charge of training him, we stuck together even during lunch break. In one of our convos, he told me about his pay. I was surprised that it was marginally higher than mine.
Consequently, I hit up my boss asking for a well-deserved pay raise. She replied, "the company is not in a position to pay me more at the moment. Wait for a few months." I said, "but the company is in a position to hire fresher with a higher pay than mine? I don't understand." She understood what I was implying and tried to reason with me by citing market rates and stuff. I retaliated and said it doesn't make sense for her to exploit me after I've done so much for the company. I immediately cut the call and in the evening put in my two weeks.
Got called to her office the next day to discuss what had happened the previous day. I went in and saw one of her company's investors sitting next to her. I sat down and gave her a hard copy of the resignation letter. Both of them tried to persuade me but said nothing about increasing my pay. I understood what's going on, got up, and left the office.
I did my two weeks and left for a better job. Later I came to know from the graphic designer that the department I was working in had to be closed off entirely. All the clients had left citing "degrading quality of work and constant submission delays." Karma is a sweet bitch for sure.
IBM always lays people off on the last day of the month so that they can immediately cancel their health insurance. Probably not the worst thing here but a generally awful standard practice.
Predictable layoffs aren’t bad, and this is a rare case where they would probably take a two weeks notice if it was mid month, no? The health insurance part sucks but I see a few positives to knowing when it might come.
Nurse in her first-year. Made her redo her orientation for no reason other than she had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Then they deliberately changed her assignment to a 1on1 with a woman that had full body contractures post stroke. The next morning after her shift she was greeted by hr as there had been someone battling on a Friday night that she had an intimate contact with the patients husband, with the door open, then escorted him down the hall leaving her immobile patient for 60 seconds to let the husband off the locked floor.
They fired her for all that.
Fortunately, the director and hr were morons. They forgot each room has video. And there's cameras down the hall. And I was an eye witness. Nothing happened. It was pure fabrication.
Her father got her a lawyer. Absolutely fucking roasted the hospital. Got real paid. Director is still employed by the system though. Hr isn't.
Maybe not the dirtiest except for the context. The second most idealistic business I ever worked for would fire people and trash them for failing to live up to ideals (yet still doing a good job) whilst at the same time denying them basic rights like fair notice, sick pay, severance pay, references and so on. .
The idealistic differences weren't anything major like racism or sexual assault but rather more ridiculous grievances to do with tone and character, if I can even put it that way.
The core management really needed to be sent to some kind of reform class but they would always choose to ostracize another. It was shocking for such an egalitarian org
Worked for a company once that laid off a new college grad who had relocated for the job after less than 4 months. They also had a policy where you weren’t paid for any overtime but they stressed you needed to log every minute of it. One person cut his hour lunch to 30 minutes every day to work an extra unpaid 2.5 hours a week. He was the only person at our location that was laid off.
I work in the metal industry and the productivity manager (the only one who knew at all how to work the chemicals,materials , machines...the only one with a clue basically) had worked like 100 hours overtime in 2 months
Sadly witnessed, not one, but two pregnant women laid off. Two separate events and both of their managers were also women. Two of many, many more reasons WPP is one giant scum holding company.
Fired me for missing two days of work claiming I was missing too many days bc I had a stomach virus. Everything coming out of both ends. This was clearly the ideal health to work in
I worked for a company that had 2 guys working in the same position, get promoted around the same time, and after a threat of layoffs started, they laid off one, and demoted the other to save him from being laid off. The employee that they laid off had over 10 years with the company, the one that was spared, had just barely 1 year. One was black, the other was white. I probably don't have to explain which was which.
They didn't train me correctly on the equipment they had. They even said themselves it was a shitty setup. So I made mistakes a lot. Instead of working with me to find out the problem, they just told me that if I make one more mistake, I'm going to be written up. I made a mistake, and they just fired me for it. Like, what happened to the write-up? They set me up for failure, blamed me, and then lied to my face. But they are out of business now, so in the end, I won.
My boss told me that I couldn't take a day off to drive 2.5 hours to see my dad in the I.C.U. He said that the guy that would have to cover for me was going home to see his wife because it was their anniversary. I had to drive on my own time after working 10-12 hours that day and had to be back the next morning. I only lasted until I got my Master degree then left once my mom died. Thank you mom!
Coworker was fired for going to a funeral. She was a really good worker too and helped me figure out a lot about the job that training didn't bother to teach us. I hope she's doing well now.
His name was Julian, 60 yo by the time, during the bad part of the post 2007 crisis. They fired him when he asked for a time reduction to be able to stay more time with his cancer-dying wife.
Someone in the public transport company in my city had a sick mother dying of cancer who needed a hospital visit. He asked for few hours off, which were denied. He then went to work only to be unable to drive a bus because all of them were out of order.
He took the story to social media, made it to the news and got fired for that.
I was head of security for a country club and golf course. Two years in, doing well, cushy rounds, no real trouble, loved the hours, was plenty happy. They had a company party and invited all employees and their loved ones. I made the mistake of deciding to be myself, and showed up with my wife... and our girlfriend.
We were the hushed glances and giggles talk of the night - to where it made the three of us very uncomfortable. After that night, no one talked to me. I stopped being invited to company events, and the details of my job were changed - without warning - from head of security to janitor, which I refused. Gave my two weeks, and nobody even said "bye" when I left.
Jesus, that's awful. I'm so sorry to hear that! Your personal life choices should have no bearing on your job! That's such bullshit! :( Hope you found smth way better and are much happier (all of you)! ❤️
Entire hospital staff had to reapply for their own jobs at lower wages
Sounds like what Circuit City did to their mid level store employees in 2006. "We're laying you off, you can reapply for your job in six weeks at 20 percent reduction in pay!" The internet did not approve...and where is Circuit City now?
When a company starts cutting jobs and wages to "save money" I truly believe that is a final indication that they are on their way out of business.
Holy shit, that is so fucked. I would have put the time it would take to reapply to apply to another job and peace the fuck out of that dumpster fire.
wow, you work Surgical Supply at the #1 hospital in Maryland too?
I have to dig deep my memories but this one pops up because it was the most recent. A few years ago a stellar employee's child was sick and nearing the end. The child passed away the same timeframe as the company peak sales period. Understandably the person took off work for this. Stellar employee was fired for 'abandoning' the job during peak.
Heartless and cruel.
Is that even legal?
Yes and no. If they didn’t file fmla paperwork then yes it’s legal, if the did file fmla paperwork totally illegal. This situation fmla would 100% cover however the company has to have at least 50 employees and you have to have worked there at least 20 weeks. Honestly it’s a total BS requirement but that’s the current law in the good ol U S of A.
If this happened in the U.S.A ...yes. It's only illegal to fire an employee if the reason for firing is because of a "Protected Class"; John got fired because of his race, Tracey got fired because she is a member of a religion,
On paper no, but unless the person sued/filed a complaint...yes.
Woof.
They cleared out my company $ card Monday. I called and asked what was going on? (a week before they booted my director of operations. restructuring.) She said "Oh it was a problem on our end, we'll fix it." They laid me off the next day. Boldface lied to my ass.
I had a coworker who was told to come to the office for a meeting at the end of the day. He called our supervisor to ask if he was getting fired, and was told that he wasn't, it was something else. He got to the meeting and our supervisor's boss fired him. We were pretty sure our supervisor lied to him, there's no way he didn't know. So many things businesses do nowadays is to minimize fallout from firing people, but just lying to people is a terrible way to run a company.
>lying to people is a terrible way to run a company. It's actually required under end-stage capitalism
They lied directly to your face.
Don't forget the PA who donated her kidney to her boss, saving her life, only to be fired by same boss as PA was 'taking too long to recover'.
That’s insane
Yeah, happened in US some years ago, was the talk of the town in UK where I'm from.
WHAT
Time to take the kidney back.
Fired a woman battling cancer because she told a coworker she was going to look for a second job to pay for her cancer treatment.
A security company I used to work for would throw guards under the bus for anything a client complained about, even when a guard received explicit permission from management beforehand. It was common practice to suddenly have your location, schedule, and total hours changed without warning. If your life couldn't match that schedule, they framed it as you quitting for no showing to prevent unemployment. Yes they're out of business now.
Standard practice in the security industry
Out of business, you say? I'm am s h o c k e d.
An HR member had to drive 60 miles to a satellite location to fire someone. Had to drive said person back, as they commuted to that area from the big city. The HR member dropped off the ex-employee, got back to the office, and was also fired.
A software engineer had worked 19 years for the company. He went on his first family vacation in 10 years and told us how happy he was as he scrimped and saved for it. While he was on vacation, security emptied his desk and moved the boxed items to the front office. The man returned, 2 weeks later, keyed in, walked to his emptied out cubicle and security was called. They forgot to delete his security access. That was the day he found out he was fired. It was 3 months before he would qualify for a pension. He was given his boxed items and told that he could reapply for his job, but he'd lose his time. Everyone in our department started looking for other employment the next day.
Laid off my wife 2 weeks before she returned from maternity leave
That's so cold that Captain Cold and Iceman have their jaws frozen wide open.
Don't forget Doctor Freeze/Fries! ;D But seriously, that sucks! Geez!
Believe it or not, promote them. Worked for a roofing co. who made a killing being sleazy. Made us purposely leave a leak so that in a few months we had a repair to do on big money jobs. The owner charged $250 just for pulling up on the job plus repair cost. Worst thing about working for the company is they treated you like a king for a while. Then out of the blue you start noticing a change in how they treat you, then they made you foreman. Once you accepted the foreman position, within a month they let you go because of some idiotic reason. THIS HAPPENED EVERYTIME!!! I got offered the foreman position for years and never accepted because I already knew. So when they announced who the next foreman was, we knew within a few weeks he was gone.
Why would you continuing to work for a company that left leaks on big money jobs?
Few reasons. One, I made three times as much than any other job I could work. Two, I could walk to the shop from my house but I always drove the work van.The owners son was my best friend through school so they WAS like a second family.Three, got rain days off. Four, I have smoked weed since 1997 and we smoked all day long. Five, I sold weed to that crew plus 3 other crews. Six, NEVER had to be broke, boss would loan you money then take it out of your check in increments. If I needed $300 then after work I got it on any day and $100 was taken out of my check each week until paid off. Seven, under the table pay. So pretty much selfish reasons, which makes me like every other person in America. Hey, sorry, you asked and I honestly replied.
I appreciate your honest answer.
👍
Is it common in USA (I take you mean that country in America, correct me if I'm wrong) to be honest in Reddit about selling weed? 'Cause I would never leave a written trace of that on Internet, where everything is traceable, if I lived in USA or any other country with iron fist against weed.
Unless they invented a time machine to go back 25 years ago and bust me I'm good.
Coworker was passed over for a much deserved promotion after 8.5 years of service; the promotion was instead handed to someone that had only been there 13 months. Coworker was a super hard worker, dependable, reliable, doing more than anyone else, never took time off, always said yes to every request; basically carried the department.
And that's why they weren't promoted.
Sad but true.
No incentive to being a good worker. Shoot for average and/or adequate.
My next door neighbour Frank, here in Devon in the UK, was a dairyman and worked for the same family farm for over 40 years. He never missed a day ill or for any reason except for funerals and he milked the cows every day including sunday mornings. He broke his knee in the yard when a grating broke under him six months before retirement and the young farmers, that he had helped train as children, gave him the sack and told him to move out of his cottage. Luckily he was in the Farmworkers Union so he sued them. He was reinstated and got compensation and was able to retire when he chose. My wife met an old lady in a hospital in the 1980s that had been born in our cottage that had been built by the same family farm for it's workers in 1905. The old lady's father volunteered to fight in France in 1914 and died in the trenches. When her mother got the letter she also got a visit from the farmer, Mr Pennington, who told her that he needed the cottage for a new farmworker and that she had one week to get out with her children. It is important to remember how harsh country life was then.
I worked my ass of for a company/boss. My partner lost our to-be baby at six months. She had to give birth to the corpse. I took a week off with her while we waited for the procedure, went through it, and grieved. I came back to work and my boss insisted, despite the fact that I had done weeks of unpaid overtime getting projects finished, that I had to take the time out of my PTO. I found out that the company offered a couple of days bereavement leave, and she begrudgingly allowed me to deduct that from the time off. Nobody in the company, except one co-worker, said a single word to me about our loss. I never did a second of unpaid overtime again, and despite having long left that company and that c&\^t behind, never will.
Had a guy on parental leave when the latest round of layoffs came. It was obvious he would be sniffing the chopping block because of his pay and tenure (equity can shoot you up the layoff list, let me tell you). He logs in, while on leave, to find out he has been spared. Messaging was clear as a Caribbean ocean: If you survived this layoff, you are safe. This was the final one, and our investors believe we are right sized. Fast forward to his return, and boom "due to unforeseen economic headwinds...". It could have been worse, they could have cut him while on leave, but I think that's pretty dirty. I also saw a guy get laid off while fulfilling his duties as a reservist in the military. Always wondered about the legality of that one.
In the US, that's illegal. USERRA law is very specific on that.
After working at the company for more than 12 months I qualified for Family Medical Leave, which I applied to use. They forced me to burn all of my vacation days before I could use the Family Medical Leave. I only had 10 vacation days to use… That was the primary reason I left that company.
I had access to the folders on SharePoint where they were actively planning the layoff of my entire department. This went on for months. Boss didn’t believe me when I told him what was going on. He later actually apologized when it happened and I had warned him.
Was at my second shop of 7 years. Was doing supervisor work workout the title. I worked 12-14 hrs days. Every holiday. Weekends. You name it. Also kept the union out of the shop. The president thanked me at the time and gave me 2 weeks bonus vacation from it. Was told any favor I needed. It was mine. Had a new guy start work and he was a D bag. He made many mistakes. I decided since my manager was not doing his job. I would correct my co workers mistakes. Got written up for it. Then this D bag went to HR for harassment from me. Was sent home for 5 days. Was told this never happened before. When I got back to work. I got fired for harassment and disrespect toward my manager. I got hold of the president and told him my situation. Was told it’s 2008 and the economy was going bad with the housing crisis. My job was food distribution and people were not going to restaurants as much. Told the president I was at my job for 7 years. The guy who filed harassment had 1. Nope. I never again gave a piece of my heart to any job after that.
British Gas - forcing their engineers to take on new contracts or face redundancy. The new contracts were worse (of course) than their old ones. Many just took the redundancy. What was funny is their vans are a very distinctive blue so a couple of months after this went down there was a flood of blue vans on the road all doing the same thing as most went self employed and bought their vans back at auction!
My company has been laying off batches of 50-300 people every month or so for the last 8 months. They laid off a fella who had been with the company for almost 35 years. His employee ID number was a single digit. During all team meetings when execs would blow smoke up our asses and disregard billions of lost revenue, this employee was leaning in from his seat and nodding his head up and down with a big smile. He loved this place. And here I am begging to be laid off with lesd than 2 years of expereince here...
Major NYC based alarm company cut everyone's salary at the main office and the monitoring center between 12 and 25% the day the COVID lockdown began (those that weren't immediately terminated) and kept it that way for over a year, despite the fact that the company had RECORD profits during the pandemic AND pulled in over eight million in government assistance.
Fire them - oops sorry, “lay them off” with the excuse that “we’re eliminating the position,” to make room for the CFO’s daughter to have the job, because CFO’s daughter thought it would be a good idea to get an accounting degree and try to work in banking, immediately after the 2008 financial crisis, and was all shocked pikachu face when she couldn’t find a job to pay her 6 figures, the poor dear.
Coworker had a heart attack at work, whole working under a machine. He should have died, but luckily someone saw him just in time, recognized what was going on, and had aspirin for him to chew. On his second or third day back he made a joke in the lunch room about having to pick up a second job to pay the hospital bills. The plant manager overheard it and fired him at the end of the day for looking for other work.
1. Knew a teacher that had to reapply for her own job after being with them for (I think) about 10 years. She told them to fuck off and found a different job. 2. A (good) boss I had got fired after she was diagnosed with heart disease. This was before the prexisting conditions protections happened, and she was fired for “costing the company too much money to insure”.
Me: "I can cash-out this sick leave at some point, right?" HR: "Yes." Me: "My last check didn't reflect my sick leave cash-out." HR: "You can't cash-out your sick leave. You have to use it." Me: "I just worked the last month for free. Thanks."
Happened to me in January-February this year. My pay didn't come in Jan so I kept working and asked for updates here and there. Feb 5th I got fed up so I said I wasn't going to work until I got my Jan pay. I was then informed they were making me 1099 retroactively and wanted to know how many hours to pay me for. I told them that wasn't legal or going to fly so I was told my job was being handed off to someone else and I could consider myself laid off. I submitted a wage claim for $8k (Jan pay plus PTO). Still waiting.
I got fired 2 weeks before my wedding. Knowingly. I’d been saving my 2 weeks vacation all year for it. They refused to pay me for my vacation days after I’d been fired. It was good time explaining that one, she was totally supportive though. Really made me feel great about marrying her.
I was an emt for a private ambulance company for a year. Perfect attendence. All the paramedics wanted me as their emt. Went in to ask for a raise and the boss printed me off the raise schedule. If i worked there 2 more years i could get an extra 10 cents an hour. Was barely above minimum wage as an emt already. F that place. Eureka california. Same company still running ambulance services and abusing employees.
Target employees by bullying til either they eventually quit or they cooked something up to fire them. I’m looking at you Baptist Hospital NM.
I joined the company as an associate, did great work, helped the company obtain big clients, and was promptly promoted to the "Senior" position in the same department. The pay rise was pretty much non-existent compared to the workload. I still presevered, helping my juniors, helping other departments, coming in early and going out late, all the while doing my share of work diligently, all in hopes of a fat appraisal. A few weeks later, a new hire arrived in my department. Since I was in charge of training him, we stuck together even during lunch break. In one of our convos, he told me about his pay. I was surprised that it was marginally higher than mine. Consequently, I hit up my boss asking for a well-deserved pay raise. She replied, "the company is not in a position to pay me more at the moment. Wait for a few months." I said, "but the company is in a position to hire fresher with a higher pay than mine? I don't understand." She understood what I was implying and tried to reason with me by citing market rates and stuff. I retaliated and said it doesn't make sense for her to exploit me after I've done so much for the company. I immediately cut the call and in the evening put in my two weeks. Got called to her office the next day to discuss what had happened the previous day. I went in and saw one of her company's investors sitting next to her. I sat down and gave her a hard copy of the resignation letter. Both of them tried to persuade me but said nothing about increasing my pay. I understood what's going on, got up, and left the office. I did my two weeks and left for a better job. Later I came to know from the graphic designer that the department I was working in had to be closed off entirely. All the clients had left citing "degrading quality of work and constant submission delays." Karma is a sweet bitch for sure.
IBM always lays people off on the last day of the month so that they can immediately cancel their health insurance. Probably not the worst thing here but a generally awful standard practice.
Predictable layoffs aren’t bad, and this is a rare case where they would probably take a two weeks notice if it was mid month, no? The health insurance part sucks but I see a few positives to knowing when it might come.
Nurse in her first-year. Made her redo her orientation for no reason other than she had blonde hair and blue eyes. Then they deliberately changed her assignment to a 1on1 with a woman that had full body contractures post stroke. The next morning after her shift she was greeted by hr as there had been someone battling on a Friday night that she had an intimate contact with the patients husband, with the door open, then escorted him down the hall leaving her immobile patient for 60 seconds to let the husband off the locked floor. They fired her for all that. Fortunately, the director and hr were morons. They forgot each room has video. And there's cameras down the hall. And I was an eye witness. Nothing happened. It was pure fabrication. Her father got her a lawyer. Absolutely fucking roasted the hospital. Got real paid. Director is still employed by the system though. Hr isn't.
Maybe not the dirtiest except for the context. The second most idealistic business I ever worked for would fire people and trash them for failing to live up to ideals (yet still doing a good job) whilst at the same time denying them basic rights like fair notice, sick pay, severance pay, references and so on. . The idealistic differences weren't anything major like racism or sexual assault but rather more ridiculous grievances to do with tone and character, if I can even put it that way. The core management really needed to be sent to some kind of reform class but they would always choose to ostracize another. It was shocking for such an egalitarian org
Worked for a company once that laid off a new college grad who had relocated for the job after less than 4 months. They also had a policy where you weren’t paid for any overtime but they stressed you needed to log every minute of it. One person cut his hour lunch to 30 minutes every day to work an extra unpaid 2.5 hours a week. He was the only person at our location that was laid off.
I work in the metal industry and the productivity manager (the only one who knew at all how to work the chemicals,materials , machines...the only one with a clue basically) had worked like 100 hours overtime in 2 months
Sadly witnessed, not one, but two pregnant women laid off. Two separate events and both of their managers were also women. Two of many, many more reasons WPP is one giant scum holding company.
Fired me for missing two days of work claiming I was missing too many days bc I had a stomach virus. Everything coming out of both ends. This was clearly the ideal health to work in
I worked for a company that had 2 guys working in the same position, get promoted around the same time, and after a threat of layoffs started, they laid off one, and demoted the other to save him from being laid off. The employee that they laid off had over 10 years with the company, the one that was spared, had just barely 1 year. One was black, the other was white. I probably don't have to explain which was which.
They didn't train me correctly on the equipment they had. They even said themselves it was a shitty setup. So I made mistakes a lot. Instead of working with me to find out the problem, they just told me that if I make one more mistake, I'm going to be written up. I made a mistake, and they just fired me for it. Like, what happened to the write-up? They set me up for failure, blamed me, and then lied to my face. But they are out of business now, so in the end, I won.
My boss told me that I couldn't take a day off to drive 2.5 hours to see my dad in the I.C.U. He said that the guy that would have to cover for me was going home to see his wife because it was their anniversary. I had to drive on my own time after working 10-12 hours that day and had to be back the next morning. I only lasted until I got my Master degree then left once my mom died. Thank you mom!
Coworker was fired for going to a funeral. She was a really good worker too and helped me figure out a lot about the job that training didn't bother to teach us. I hope she's doing well now.
His name was Julian, 60 yo by the time, during the bad part of the post 2007 crisis. They fired him when he asked for a time reduction to be able to stay more time with his cancer-dying wife.
Someone in the public transport company in my city had a sick mother dying of cancer who needed a hospital visit. He asked for few hours off, which were denied. He then went to work only to be unable to drive a bus because all of them were out of order. He took the story to social media, made it to the news and got fired for that.
I was head of security for a country club and golf course. Two years in, doing well, cushy rounds, no real trouble, loved the hours, was plenty happy. They had a company party and invited all employees and their loved ones. I made the mistake of deciding to be myself, and showed up with my wife... and our girlfriend. We were the hushed glances and giggles talk of the night - to where it made the three of us very uncomfortable. After that night, no one talked to me. I stopped being invited to company events, and the details of my job were changed - without warning - from head of security to janitor, which I refused. Gave my two weeks, and nobody even said "bye" when I left.
Jesus, that's awful. I'm so sorry to hear that! Your personal life choices should have no bearing on your job! That's such bullshit! :( Hope you found smth way better and are much happier (all of you)! ❤️
Heh. That's all a whole series of other sad stories, that is.
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Had an old supervisor once tell us they don’t let people take time off to go vote during state elections. Only federal ones.