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NetJets Layoff
The local news organizations have not yet picked up the story.
That's cause there is NO story. It's called life. It is a story when a company owned by Warren Buffett is supposedly doing well profit-wise suddenly, without explaination lays off scores of employees. It raises questions about managements honesty and integrety. The stockholders would certainly have an interest in knowing. |
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"john smith" wrote in message ... The local news organizations have not yet picked up the story. That's cause there is NO story. It's called life. It is a story when a company owned by Warren Buffett is supposedly doing well profit-wise suddenly, without explaination lays off scores of employees. It raises questions about managements honesty and integrety. It raises questions, but the ones you post are flat out paranoid and NOYDB! The stockholders would certainly have an interest in knowing. Well, you think maybe the management will let them know without having to blab to the media? |
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Aparently a senior manager (executive level) told them in a meeting
earlier in the month that there would be no layoffs, nobody would be losing their job. He then was the one to notify at least some of them of their 'voluntary' resignation. I haven't seen the resignations that were wrote for them so I can't confirm this, but I heard they also disallowed any future employment with the company. It's getting complicated... Let's see... They make me quit, agreeing that it was my idea. I'm quitting because my job was eliminated, it was not in any way performance related... And I agree that I can never work for NetJets again in the future. The lawyers are going to have a field day with this.... |
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wrote They make me quit, agreeing that it was my idea. I'm quitting because my job was eliminated, it was not in any way performance related... And I agree that I can never work for NetJets again in the future. The lawyers are going to have a field day with this.... Agreed. There is certainly more here, than what is being told, one way or the other. I wouldn't mind a nice fat unlawful termination suit being won in my favor, would you? g -- Jim in NC |
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"Morgans" wrote in message ... wrote They make me quit, agreeing that it was my idea. I'm quitting because my job was eliminated, it was not in any way performance related... And I agree that I can never work for NetJets again in the future. The lawyers are going to have a field day with this.... Agreed. There is certainly more here, than what is being told, one way or the other. I wouldn't mind a nice fat unlawful termination suit being won in my favor, would you? And what do you see as "unlawful termination?" Color? Creed? Age? Gender? Without an explicit contract saying otherwise, any employer can terminate any employee and do it **WITHOUT** cause. The only thing I see that might have been unethical was the horsesh... feathers about signing a voluntary termination note. That released the employer from any obligation for paying unemployment benefits. While it may have been unethical, it was NOT illegal. I feel bad for Joseph and his fellow former NetJets employees, but the bottom line is: ===nobody is guaranteed a job=== As sad as it may seem that lots of folks are going to be spending a long hot summer with no income, and as chicken sh...tuff as it may seem, no legal beagle is going to make a dime unless they can prove color, creed, age, or gender was involved. Ask my wife. Several years ago, she worked for a corporation long enough to top out, pay wise, in her job code. In January of that year, she received an award for Employee of the Year. In addition to a fancy certificate and cash bonus, the company gave her a voucher for a week vacation at a Florida resort. When we got back from Florida the following May, she found a letter in her in-box that her services were no longer required. When she found that another person had been hired to do her former job at less than half the salary, she went to a lawyer --- a friend we've known for decades. His response was, "....nobody is guaranteed a job." |
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I've never worked for NetJets. Someone close to me was.
Honestly, I don't know the legalities where this is involved, and what the selection criteria was for the layoffs. But I do know that telling someone 'sign this or you won't get any severance pay' could pretty easily spawn a legal battle based on duress. The two I know are over 40, so age discrimination could be a factor. One was promoted into a position then a month or so later that 'position' is eliminated, the other was relocated from out of state. My reason for posting wasn't to indicate NetJets did anything illegally.. I'm not that closely involved in it. I posted it because it sickened me to hear the poor treatment they (and presumable many others) received. We are a litigious society, where people can get paid for doing something stupid... So to say they need to just accept it because 'it happened to me' would indicate to me your wife probably should have got a second opinion. ;-) Casey Wilson wrote: "Morgans" wrote in message ... wrote They make me quit, agreeing that it was my idea. I'm quitting because my job was eliminated, it was not in any way performance related... And I agree that I can never work for NetJets again in the future. The lawyers are going to have a field day with this.... Agreed. There is certainly more here, than what is being told, one way or the other. I wouldn't mind a nice fat unlawful termination suit being won in my favor, would you? And what do you see as "unlawful termination?" Color? Creed? Age? Gender? Without an explicit contract saying otherwise, any employer can terminate any employee and do it **WITHOUT** cause. The only thing I see that might have been unethical was the horsesh... feathers about signing a voluntary termination note. That released the employer from any obligation for paying unemployment benefits. While it may have been unethical, it was NOT illegal. I feel bad for Joseph and his fellow former NetJets employees, but the bottom line is: ===nobody is guaranteed a job=== As sad as it may seem that lots of folks are going to be spending a long hot summer with no income, and as chicken sh...tuff as it may seem, no legal beagle is going to make a dime unless they can prove color, creed, age, or gender was involved. Ask my wife. Several years ago, she worked for a corporation long enough to top out, pay wise, in her job code. In January of that year, she received an award for Employee of the Year. In addition to a fancy certificate and cash bonus, the company gave her a voucher for a week vacation at a Florida resort. When we got back from Florida the following May, she found a letter in her in-box that her services were no longer required. When she found that another person had been hired to do her former job at less than half the salary, she went to a lawyer --- a friend we've known for decades. His response was, "....nobody is guaranteed a job." |
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wrote in message ps.com... Aparently a senior manager (executive level) told them in a meeting earlier in the month that there would be no layoffs, nobody would be losing their job. He then was the one to notify at least some of them of their 'voluntary' resignation. I haven't seen the resignations that were wrote for them so I can't confirm this, but I heard they also disallowed any future employment with the company. It's getting complicated... Let's see... They make me quit, agreeing that it was my idea. I'm quitting because my job was eliminated, it was not in any way performance related... And I agree that I can never work for NetJets again in the future. The lawyers are going to have a field day with this.... I doubt it, Warren didn't get to where he is by making mistakes such as you suggest. Based on your biased posts it is sounding more and more like they were terminations due to performance issues. Don't forget we have 'at will' employment in this country. Either party can terminate employment without notice for no reason. |
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... The stockholders would certainly have an interest in knowing. Well, you think maybe the management will let them know without having to blab to the media? If it's a publicly held company you can't do one without the other. |
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