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[pscocoa]

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago the bloodbath that was about to take place at a company in the same building as my company.

Just seen a couple of the victims - one was given their envelope and told to clear office within 2 hours by the HR person who was eating her breakfast and just momentarily put her spoon down to hand out the envelope.

The victim had been there 27 years.

[MR MISTER]

No surprise here. It's just how it works now.

[albitz]

Ive seen (and had worse) tbh. At my last employer (of 20 years), the MD went round with a big tray of cream cakes to give to the people who hadn't been made redundant while the redundant employees were still at their desks. He got a bit muddled with a few of them and had to ask if they were staying or going. If they replied that they were going, he walked away with his cream cakes.
It was more cringworthy than anything Ricky Gervais dreamed up in The Office.
They had promised me a different job for almost 2 years after my spazzy leg got to the point where it wasn't up to the demands of my job. They called me into a meeting room one day - I assumed to tell me about my new role. They sacked me on the spot,without so much as a thankyou for 20 years of service above and beyond the call of duty.
Won at tribunal,awarded ?16,000. Trouble is they went into liquidation just before the tribunal,and then started up again almost immediately under a slightly different name. Different company though technically, so I cant get my ?16k.

[Rods2]

Unfortunately, there is no easy way when making somebody redundant and when I've had to do it it is the job I've hated most of all management jobs. Sacking somebody after giving them the chance to mend their ways has never bothered me.

When making somebody redundant, thanking them for all their hard work, telling them that you will do the best to help them with references and you are sad to be losing them along with an explanation on why the company has has to change to at least give them an understanding on why their job is going is the least you can do.

Just getting an HR person to hand out an envelope to me very impersonal, without so much of a thank you for all the good work they have done. It sound like senior management has passed the buck.

[Kate]

I used to work at a boarding school in Reading. One day the head said they had arranged an 'advisor' to come and speak to me to give me advice etc.  I was head of IT at the time.

It turned out that they were making a case to get rid of me. They wanted to give my job to the husband of the deputy head who worked in a tough comprehensive school. It turned out that the supposed advisor was just there to bad mouth my teaching.

In the weeks leading up to this the deputy head had been really friendly with me, inviting me round for lunch etc. It turned out that she just trying to get information about the department from me, to pass on to her husband.

I eventually had a meeting with the head. He said that he's give me £10000 to leave and sign a gagging order, or he would sack me and I'd get nothing.

I'd moved 300 miles to do the job. Sold one house and bought another. Only been there two years. I really liked the job.

Bastards.