Klarinet Archive - Posting 000708.txt from 2001/11

From: "reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: so you want to do this for a living
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:27:35 -0500

Ed Wrote:
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I have two sons who are employed in the business world. They have both
spent their entire careers in situations in which they can be fired without
notice, upon the whim of their employer. In fact, that has happened to one
of them twice. I know several other people who were employed by major
corporations who have had the experience of coming to work in the morning
and finding that their keys no longer fit their office doors, or that their
passwords no longer worked to allow them access to their company's computer
network. In one instance, in one company located here, one that is national
in scope, over 50 people were met at the doors of the company's office one
Friday morning by uniformed security people, escorted to their offices,
handed a cardboard box, given 15 minutes to clear out their personal
belongings, escorted by the security guards to their cars in the parking
lots, and told to never again set foot on company property. I've never
heard of anything like that in the education profession. Where I now teach,
after a person has been on the faculty for over two years, if they are to be
terminated, they are guaranteed a one-year notice. That seems pretty
generous.

Ed Lacy
EL2@-----.edu
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Yup - companies do that so that no one can go into the computers and reek havoc, etc. (the disgruntled employee). It is q=
uite tramautic!!!
My wife (soon X) told me that a guy was fired like that ON THE "BRING YOUR DAUGHTER TO WORK" DAY!!!!!

ouch. They really should have waited a day for that one.

David Blumberg
http://woodwinds.toptempo.com

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