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This from the Financial Times :eeek: :

<span style="font-style: italic">"Some UBS fixed income traders in London found they had been let go on Tuesday in a fairly non-personal way: their building passes weren't working when they showed up to the office."
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Cold.
 
Does get the point across, though.
 
DrEntropy said:
Cold.
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Seems they shoulda done it to the HR guy fer not doin' ~his~ job...but I guess he's the guy who pushes the button. :whistle:

Question: How do you fire the HR guy? :confuse:
 
kellysguy said:
DrEntropy said:
Cold.
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Seems they shoulda done it to the HR guy fer not doin' ~his~ job...but I guess he's the guy who pushes the button. :whistle:

Question: How do you fire the HR guy? :confuse:
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With gusto and imagination.
 
That unfortunately, is the way of the corporate world. We individually really mean little or nothing as people, just as cost centers to be optimized. In my company several years ago, they did a 10% staffing reduction. In order to "spare" the managers from feeling bad each one was given people on someone else's staff to fire. The though apparently was that they wouldn't feel bad about firing someone they didn't really know. And to top it all off it later turned out that the whole reason for it was so a senior VP could collect a bonus for exceeding their yearly cost cutting target. All those positions were quietly opened for hiring at the start of the next year...
 
An orthodontist buddy of mine had something similar to that happen to him in his practice. After many years, he decided to take a young partner in with him, and let the new guy buy him out and stay on for 5 more years, working for the new kid. Nice way to pad his retirement and keep doing what he really loved, orthodontics. He had a buy-sell contract drawn up by Dewey, Cheatum, an Howe, I think. The new kid changed the locks on the building after the first week! My buddy was locked out from his own practice and there was nothing he could do about it. And he had financed the whole practice/building over a very long term and couldn't work in the area because of a non-compete covenant.

Cold indeed.
 
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