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The Art of The Farewell Email
With so many people losing their jobs, the farewell email, letting colleagues and contacts know where you are moving and how you can be reached, has become common. Writing a really good one, whether it be funny, sad or just plain mad is an art form. Chris Kula, a receptionist at a New York engineering firm, wrote: "For nearly as long as I've worked here, I've hoped that I might one day leave this company. And now that this dream has become a reality, please know that I could not have reached this goal without your unending lack of support." In May, lawyer Shinyung Oh was let go from the San Francisco branch of the Paul Hastings law firm six days after losing a baby. "If this response seems particularly emotional," she wrote to the partners, "perhaps an associate's emotional vulnerability after a recent miscarriage is a factor you should consider the next time you fire or lay someone off. It shows startlingly poor judgment and management skills — and cowardice — on your parts." Let's hear the best and worst goodbye emails you've seen.
His farewell letter ten years ago says nothing of his personality today, nor of his capability for doing the job, so at the end of the day it was you who lost out on thatone... Further, someone seeking a job does so for the oppertunity to supply the employer with a service, since it is the employer who is the one with an advertised need. Employers who fail to recognise this are generally assholes so, added to the fact that you lost out, I guess he was better off.
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Why should they have to deal with it? She doesn't HAVE to have a child. The choices you make in your life have consequences, I'm sorry if you think you're entitled to do whatever you want and push the load off on everyone else so that you can do what suites you, but I play the same rules, and if you're entitled to make me work around your life changing events, I should also be entitled to tell you to fuck off, shut up, and do your job or leave.
Why should the other lawyers have to fill in for her workload whiles shes out? Why should they have to deal with the emotional baggage that she now carries? If she's married, her husband is the one that said 'till death do us part' not her employers.
Employment is a privilege, not a right or entitlement.
This idea that you are some how entitled to do whatever you want, whenever you want with no side effects is just retarded. We need to get over this shit and people need to start realizing you don't get everything you want and life is a series of tradeoffs. Sorry if having a child causes you to lose some of your other things but if you didn't realize that was going to happen you damn sure will AFTER you have the child. You lose a hell of a lot more than your job, and in exchange you may get a baby, or in some cases, you may not.
Life isn't fair, it never will be, stop trying to live on fantasy island.
Perhaps the ratio is higher because no one wants to deal with the baggage that comes in such a situation. Perhaps they make shitty lawyers after words? Who the hell cares? It may not be nice, but your a complete idiot if you work for a lawyer and think its about being nice. Perhaps they asked her to take extra leave to get things worked out and she refused, so they fired her so they didn't have to deal with her instability.
Yes, I'm blaming everything on the woman in this case, but you're acting like she was a perfect angle and you have no idea why she was actually fired. Perhaps she was a thief or selling information to other lawyers, and they were trying to be nice and wait till she went on leave. Maybe she had a miscarrage because she snorted more cocaine on daily basis than Al Pacino at the end of Scareface, you really don't know. Neither do I. But we're both making some pretty stupid assumptions, aren't we?
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Depends on the industry, type of company, and so forth. In the dog-eat-dog world of small automotive tier 1 engineering suppliers, his behavior might actually have been almost expected. Its a very small world, very competitive and its not uncommon for people to fly around from company to company and maybe even end up working for the same place a couple of different times.
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Not it's not. And most states are "at will" employment, which means either party can terminate employment for any reason, or no reason.
Unless you're dumb enough to write down "I am firing you because you are (black|asian|female|etc.) there is no chance of successful suit.
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