"It's just business." - Sal Tessio sas
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Carmen Vitullo <[email protected]> wrote: > No company loyalty since my Boeing Helicopter days, in 2001 I was offered > a job in Arkansas working for an company that basically creates all the > spam - targeted ad's you see on the internet, and they were also an > outsourcer. > I was for warned about this company they have a tendency to lay off every > year or so just to make the numbers look good, in 2009 when I was the only > local person that supported the Zos systems and the sysplex's while on > vacation after a long weekend of working to get another client added to the > PLEX, I get this call from the Boss in Downers Grove with HR on the call, > seems my position was eliminated, typical for this company to take the > folks that have worked there the longest and have the most experience to be > outsourced themselves to a foreign country, my team leader about a year > earlier told me no job is #1 and family is #2 his reasoning; if you don't > have #1 then #2 is left with nothing, I now work for a company that > respects me and my family time and I do all I can to help make this company > successful. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "scott Ford" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 9:06:16 AM > Subject: Re: Loyalty > > Well i have a short story about loyalty. I was working for a huge American > company in NYC. I had gone to Europe to help out on a Data Comm. project. > During my 2 weeks in Europe I hear the company is laying off people for the > HQ office in NYC. I call my manager and ask him, was I one of them ? He > said ' of course not' ...I get back and I was ...The good side of the story > is that the European HQ put a bid in for me and we ( me and my wife) moved > to Europe. It was temporary. I was a placeholder for another people of that > countries nationality. I was then let go for a reason that was not valid. > Politics ...I never forgot what happened, but I learned ... > > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Edward Gould wrote: > > > >> I have never trusted an employer since that time. I think all people > >> should not trust their employers either. > >> > > > > Define "trust". Certainly the feudal bond and /noblesse oblige/ are gone. > > In return, we have more freedom to change employment at will and no > employer > > holds a résumé of 2-yr. short stays against us. The system is always > > slanted against the working stiff; complaints survive from ancient > > Mesopotamia > > on that score! > > > > -- > > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > > universe > > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > > Carl Sagan > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
