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

From: Nicolas Krizan (nico_at_mbox309.swipnet.se)
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 12:31:38 EST


>Laurent Daudelin skrev:

>>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...

Hello

Here in Sweden I think it is one month minimum. With people who has been
employed for a long time it can be three months or even up to a year in
extreme cases.

I hope of course, just as the rest of us, Jeremy will find another job
soon.

kind regards/nicolas

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