Hmmm... The other side of the story, eh? Hey, I think you may be onto something re: one years of salary for 8 hours of work. Under the circumstances I think I would demand exactly that of the bastard. If he asks why so high, tell him exactly what you just wrote to our group. Let him squirm. Either way he is dead meat. Worst case, you get nothing more, and he is in hot water because he can't figure out how to use your software - which they need to do. Best case, you get paid, and he is in hot water for getting his company into yet another budget breaking expense. I say "go for the throat", and let the chips fall where they will.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Madigan > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Former employer called today > > > 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. > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
