[kj] OT: redundancy and infuriating greed

[Daniel Corvo]

Janean,

 

Hope all goes well for you. My company is relocating to Ireland and is making dozens redundant (my wife included), I'm safe for now but not sure for how long... I work for a fortune 500 company turning over $2B+ a year, they also have loads of cash in the bank, they're only doing this to cut down on corporate taxes, disgusting but far too common these days. 

 

Anyway, really feel for you and understand how you must feel, hang in there. 
 


From: vassifer at earthlink.net
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:17:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: redundancy and infuriating greed




Good lord! God luck to you, Janean.


Alex in NYC




On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Janean wrote:



Thanks for all the well wishes.
 
My colleague and I have decided to propose “job share” where we cut 50 percent of our hours saving the college the same amount of money.  This will still enable us to cover our mortgages and help us sleep at night.  We’ll have to see if THEY agree to it. What stupid is that we both do different jobs with different skills, so they’d lose out if one of us left and would end up outsourcing some of the work! 
 
The man who is making all these decisions was recently appointed Vice Principal from his previous position of Director of Finance.  The college has a £500k deficit.  Surely this has something to do with decisions he’s been part of – but all the little people are paying for his mistakes.  Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
 
Cheers,
Janean
 




From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Karen Weil
Sent: 10 March 2010 18:25
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Latest Blog Post from Youth:
 

My sentiments echo Folk's about Janean's situation. Really not fair to her or the colleague.

Greed is infuriating.

 

k.w.

SoCal


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From: folk devil

To: gathering at misera.net

Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:16 AM

Subject: Re: [kj] Latest Blog Post from Youth:

 
Sorry to hear about your job situation, Janean.
They've been doing the same where I work. All of we plebs get furloughs and wage decreases while the upper eschelons keep banking it.
I am now almost earning less than I did 6 years ago.
 



From: j at jlancaster.info
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:08:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [kj] Latest Blog Post from Youth:

Don’t know yet.  Our jobs are going but they are creating new posts for people to compete for.  I will have to compete with my colleague (who’s also my best friend’s husband) for one new post.  There’s enough work for us both to be busy full time, but they don’t see it like that of course.  It doesn’t matter for the man who made that decision because he’s on £75k and can sleep pretty soundly at night.
 
Wankers.
 
Sorry for the OT moaning!
 
 

 
 



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