Comments on: When a Layoff is not a Layoff? http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/when-a-layoff-is-not-a-layoff.php Mendelson's Musings Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: lawshucks http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/when-a-layoff-is-not-a-layoff.php/comment-page-1#comment-192757 lawshucks Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:51:40 +0000 http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/when-a-layoff-is-not-a-layoff.php#comment-192757 It's not exactly new, it's just a horrifically inept spin on an old method of doing business. In fact, for a long long time, this up-or-out system was SOP at many firms. In this market, though, it just doesn't work (the dearly departed can't pretend they're "otherwise qualified but looking for other opportunities"). We wrote about this a few months ago here <a href="http://lawshucks.com/2009/02/more-hypocrisy-in-stealth-layoffs/" target="_blank">http://lawshucks.com/2009/02/more-hypocrisy-in-st...</a> but no one to date had been so cavalier about it. If it walks like a duck... It's not exactly new, it's just a horrifically inept spin on an old method of doing business. In fact, for a long long time, this up-or-out system was SOP at many firms. In this market, though, it just doesn't work (the dearly departed can't pretend they're "otherwise qualified but looking for other opportunities").

We wrote about this a few months ago here http://lawshucks.com/2009/02/more-hypocrisy-in-st... but no one to date had been so cavalier about it. If it walks like a duck…

]]> By: frases http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/when-a-layoff-is-not-a-layoff.php/comment-page-1#comment-189946 frases Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:10:41 +0000 http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/when-a-layoff-is-not-a-layoff.php#comment-189946 The truth about layoffs appear to me to be about shuffling money from the middle-class to the rich The truth about layoffs appear to me to be about shuffling money from the middle-class to the rich

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