Here's the thing. I was laid off because the team leader spent $80,000 more than he should have by taking copious amounts of overtime. He was billing 60 to 80 hour a week. In addition, his wife, a administrative assistant, was billing 60 - 80 hours a week. This was illegal as hell as why would a friggin secretary need to bill 80 hours a week? I was billing 40 and never billed more than 40 in 4 years. So I got none of the extra gravy.
After lying to the government overseer on a progress report swearing they were on budget, they went back to him a month later and asked for an additional 80k. The government said no. Since I was the next highest paid guy on the contract, they sent me packing. Now, they could have made less money on me, or less money on all of us. There were 7 engineers on the staff. Each one was probably making 100k each in profit for the company. They couldn't take a little bit of a hit on me? They couldn't break even on me? They couldn't lay me off til the end of the fiscal year and bring me back? They were raking in money hand over fist on the rental of the two facilities, labor, and equipment. additionally, I was the only engineer in the NJ office. Now I'll be God-damned if I'm going to bail his ass out for any amount of money, especially since it's about 8 hours of work. You want to give me a year's salary for 8 hours, then we'll talk. It's not like this bastard once called me in a year to see how I was doing. Oh yeah, and the other admin assistant settled a sexual harassment suit for a fairly large amount when he offered to promote her for some sexual favors. The company paid that, not him. And I get laid off. F*ck him. --- Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lew Schwartz wrote: > > I'll bet you didn't even think of dropping > everything, rushing right > > over and doing the work for him gratis, did you? > I bet he didn't, the ungrateful bastard! :-P > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
