Relax, Everything is Going to be Okay!

[NDGuy]

That Constitution. Such an impediment to true progress, for almost 250yrs.

They sure seem to think so as they have been wiping their ass with it lately

 

[Borny1]

I retired from one of the largest O&G companies in the world. The one beginning with the letter E. Every "layoff" that ever occurred during my career, the terminations were far from indiscriminate. Even your post betrays your assertion. You write that the terminations were targeted at the least tenured and the longest tenured employees. That, to me, is a discriminate layoff.

One of many advantages of remaining a wage employee, was that the company could not terminate a long term employee, without just cause. During my 28 years, there was no layoff that included any wage employees. Most often the layoffs were a carrot and a stick approach. They would offer a window of time, where if you left the company, you received a monetary payment, above and beyond, what you earned with your work. If that did not trim staff, sufficiently, they terminated employees at their discretion. Most companies grant some sort of severance, when they "layoff" employees. I guess, they recognize some obligation, when you end someone's employment, with such short notice.

At no time do I remember the company gleefully dancing with a chain saw during their downsizing periods. That is one of the more repugnant visuals, to date, of the new administration.

Good point. If you are lucky enough to be union which is the large majority of employees, you get a carrot. If you're a sucker like me and salaried though, you get the stick.

 

[Sytes]

Politics summed up in one Costanza moment:

 

[bullbugle]

Several months?

Are you aware of FMLA?