Employers unworthy of their employees, part [mumble]

[unixronin]

The son of a friend has spent the last five years working for a small real-estate development company.  They wouldn't advance him, or train him, or pay him what he was worth, and he has a wife and a mortgage.  So, after five years, he gave in his notice to move on to a better opportunity with more pay and benefits.

Many employers, in this position, would at least wish him well, if not see if they could make him an offer to make it worth his while to stay.

These fuckers fired him, apparently out of spite for having the temerity to leave.

He's going to be fine.  He has three job offers in hand, all of them for better jobs than he just left.  I like to think that when the economy finally drags itself out of the toilet and recovers to the point that it's no longer an employer's market, employers like this one will suddenly find themselves with all their staff quitting and unable to hire replacements, because the word's gone out that they're assholes who treat their people like dirt.

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[yndy.livejournal.com]

They say Karma's a Bitch... let's hope she hunts down *those* bastards in person, and makes sure they "get" just how crappy that was.

Glad your friend's son had better opportunities - sounds like he spent about 5 years too long working for them.

[drdemure.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Phil, for posting this. It's nice to know I'm not the only one incensed.

fired?

[felinecanine.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about the "firing" part. In some industries, I wouldn't think it's terribly unusual for an employer to accept an employee's resignation and walk that person out the door immediately, obstensibly to protect the employers trade secrets, contacts, or other information.

Could this have been the intent of his former employer, which for some
reason failed to handle the situation gracefully? It's difficult to say without more details.

In any case, it sounds like he's doing the right thing by moving on, and I hope his new company treats him well.

Re: fired?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

From as close to the horse's mouth as I have it, no, it wasn't a "Your resignation is accepted effective immediately", it was a "You can't resign, you're fired." The boss of the company is ... a real specimen, let's leave it at that. I've known similar types myself.

(And you can take 'specimen' in any context you like.)

Re: fired?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Hmph. For that I'd take two weeks off work and file unemployment, record those three job offers the second week as my contacts, and then go take the job on my originally-planned start date.... just to run the fuckers' UI up.

Re: fired?

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

Me too.