--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/31/01 3:05:13 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Looks mighty suspicious to me too. Did they give
> you
> a decent severance package? so you can pay for
> going
> back to school? (If not, maybe you can sue them!)
> >>
> As Brian would say, yeah right. No, they made it a
> performance issue I guess
> as a reason to get rid of me. Now mind you I just
> got a decent review and pay
> increase. I was I guess damaged goods to them. There
> was a general ledger
> account that wasn't reconciled. I tried and tried,
> but I had problems with it
> and they knew it. Later everyone denied knowing
> anything about it to save
> their own asses.
> In the end they made me look like I wasn't
> fulfilling my responsibilities.
> I wish I had a drink to throw at them at the time
> and say kiss my ass.
Well, I'm no lawyer, and I'm sure labour laws differ
from place to place but, if you had just recently had
a good perf review and they threw you out on something
like that, I'm pretty sure you'd get something out of
them. Usually performance issues have to be ongoing
situations where an issue has been identified and
management has taken all steps to ensure that it's
rectified before moving through to the dismissal
process. Most companies I know of here (province of
Ontario, Canada) would give the person some kind of
severance package (a fairly decent one, that's in line
with what "everyone else" is giving) just to avoid the
possibility of litigation and/or bad press. If you
worked for them for a long time, it may be in your
interest to at least talk to a labour lawyer about it
- again, I don't know how it works where you are, but
up here you'd probably get an hour or so free
consultation and they'd tell you whether or not it was
worth your while to pursue it - at no cost to you.
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