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Thread: Has your office / company laid people off or are you expecting layoffs? PART 8

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disoblige View Post
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    The bigger question is why is your wife's friend so fucking dumb? Lol.

    Or maybe you are telling us a story that isn't 100% true and she planned vacation not strictly because of layoffs.
    This is probably the case to be honest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    Foolproof plan. Never come back, never get laid off.
    I know someone that actually tried that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disoblige View Post
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    The bigger question is why is your wife's friend so fucking dumb? Lol.

    Or maybe you are telling us a story that isn't 100% true and she planned vacation not strictly because of layoffs.
    You'd be surprised. I worked with someone who asked to go to the washroom right in the middle of his HR layoff meeting and peaced out. Then he said he was sick and tried to claim short term disability.
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    Hey baller, any problem money can solve is no problem at all. Don't sweat it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyra1ax View Post
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    I know someone that actually tried that.
    In my early career, I have disabled many accounts of vacationers and the 1st day they return they get escorted from front door directly to HR office. And they keep calling helpdesk from hotel on why their cell phone is dead and we had to sidestep that saying we will talk with Telus/Rogers on the issue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xtrema View Post
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    In my early career, I have disabled many accounts of vacationers and the 1st day they return they get escorted from front door directly to HR office.
    That sounds best to me. Just no idea and show up and BAM!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strider View Post
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    You'd be surprised. I worked with someone who asked to go to the washroom right in the middle of his HR layoff meeting and peaced out. Then he said he was sick and tried to claim short term disability.
    Ha, not the same, but in the auto industry in Ontario back in 09 there were a lot of lay offs, and my favourite story was an employee at a supplier that was meeting with an auto manufacturer was pulled out mid meeting and let go. Someone had to take their place in the in the meeting and let the client know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lasimmon View Post
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    That sounds best to me. Just no idea and show up and BAM!
    The best was when we got the laptop back, everything was cleaned out except the OS still boots and the windows background was some dude getting packed from behind by another dude. Good old Windows 3.1.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nzwasp View Post
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    I believe I read something about a year ago that they changed a regulation and that you could lay off during maternity leave now. Maternity leave saved the wife during the first big round of the current long downturn.



    Seems straight forward.
    No, you CAN always laid off people on mat leave if you can prove that position no longer exists. There were a lot of sap stories on MSM when 2015/16 laid off wave came and the worker already used up EI on mat leave and got nothing after returning to a job no longer exists.

    But from a logistic perspective, you just have to make sure you got extra i's dotted and t's crossed to make sure a lawsuit isn't a result.

    Think of it as 2 identical cars in a Park N Ride, one with steering wheel lock and one without, you will always steal the one without 1st but it's isn't impossible to take both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strider View Post
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    you'd be surprised. I worked with someone who asked to go to the washroom right in the middle of his hr layoff meeting and peaced out. Then he said he was sick and tried to claim short term disability.
    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strider View Post
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    You'd be surprised. I worked with someone who asked to go to the washroom right in the middle of his HR layoff meeting and peaced out. Then he said he was sick and tried to claim short term disability.
    lol.. had a new hire that knew it weren't working out and knew end is coming but filed disability before paper work was done. Got another 6 months out of the deal and still got the balls to use us as refence afterwards.

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    We had one smart-ish low performer start an HR complaint against another employee alleging harassment. Fuckinf had to document all her performance issues for 6 more months before we could lay her off.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Lazy people do all sorts of bullshit just to avoid people figuring out they're too stupid to do work related tasks well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xtrema View Post
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    lol.. had a new hire that knew it weren't working out and knew end is coming but filed disability before paper work was done. Got another 6 months out of the deal and still got the balls to use us as refence afterwards.
    We had a co-worker when I worked for Sanjel who would show up drunk and direct trucks full of nitrogen where to drive in the middle of winter. Managers ignored it for the better park of a year until they couldn’t handle it any more, they tried bringing him in to let him go but he mentioned to her the week before that he had a drinking problem. HR let him do rehab instead and he still had a job until Sanjel folded up shop a few months later. My wife had a co-worker who faked pregnancy and a miscarriage to string out here firing for almost a year if memory serves, HR eventually got her but it took the better part of 2 years to build the needed paper trail.
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    Unless you're in a "professional" role where letting someone go might cost the company $$$$(contracts etc). I thought you could fire / layoff people without much if any reason. Pay them out 2 weeks and move on.

    Or am I way off here?

    https://www.alberta.ca/termination-pay.aspx

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strider View Post
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    You'd be surprised. I worked with someone who asked to go to the washroom right in the middle of his HR layoff meeting and peaced out. Then he said he was sick and tried to claim short term disability.
    Reminds me of Office Space when the guy got hit by the car. "I'm so lucky!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xtrema View Post
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    The best was when we got the laptop back, everything was cleaned out except the OS still boots and the windows background was some dude getting packed from behind by another dude. Good old Windows 3.1.
    I just launched a mini-wheat at my monitor via my nose.

    bahaha

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    "All the magic happens under the boardwalk."

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    Quote Originally Posted by brucebanner View Post
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    Unless you're in a "professional" role where letting someone go might cost the company $$$$(contracts etc). I thought you could fire / layoff people without much if any reason. Pay them out 2 weeks and move on.

    Or am I way off here?

    https://www.alberta.ca/termination-pay.aspx
    Scroll down in your link past the “employee quits” section to the “terminated by employer” section.

    Those are minimum standards.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    I know what they are, I scanned through the link again before posting. Unless there are many years of service, a company can let an employee go for little cost.

    Family friend was less then 2 years at a company and other than boss not liking the individual (was mutual) they had no grounds to fire but they did. Paid out based on the standards and they moved on in life.

    That's all I'm saying, if a company wants to get rid of a employee they can at any time, for a fixed cost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    Scroll down in your link past the “employee quits” section to the “terminated by employer” section.

    Those are minimum standards.
    Employers cannot end the employment of or lay off an employee because that employee...

    is facing or might face garnishment action (a legal procedure where the court can authorize a creditor to take money owing to them from sources such as an employee’s pay cheque, an account at a financial institution, or money owed by others)
    So the trick is to file for bankruptcy before getting laid off?

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