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Have a grandson up against this management style right now. His company (well-known nation wide firm) is attempting to cut down without actually laying off, so many are being fired for minor infractions. He needs physical therapy for a fall in the firms icy yard and my daughter who works at the physical therapy office is scheduling appointments after work hours only, as he says the company is using any early leave requests as an excuse for termination. This after the fall took place in their icy yard!

Many, many years ago (50+), I had an English teacher who was prone to get on a soap box about many issues. All students encouraged this (especially on a day when a test was scheduled). I remember one subject that always was conducive to a long rant was the conditions at food processing plants. He would not allow ketchup in his house and would go on and on about the processing of it. Another sore subject with him was the fancy labels on cleaning products which contained just basic ingredients and sold for a fancy price.

>>>>Have a grandson up against this management style right now.<<<<

This company was a real corker... They had bought houses surrounding the plant in response to neighbors complaints of noise, smell, etc. and they provided them to management and supervisors for housing. They also loaned money to managers liberally.

When I told them I quit, they said - you can’t - you would have to move out... I said Nope... I have my own home - then they said well, you will have to pay off your loans - I told them to check and they would see I didn’t have any loans from them. The president and his VP were furious that I was not dependent on them.

I had covered my bases on the job issue and had another one lined up - so when that last straw (the cooker charts) surfaced, I was prepared. Being the open person that I am, when they asked me what I was going to do for a job, I told them - and they called the owner of that business and threatened to pull all business connections from them if they hired me...

Fortunately the owner of the new company was a Fraternity brother at University of Pennsylvania of my father’s and he was not swayed by their arrogance. He called me and told me about the conversation - he said to take a week vacation and then he would see me that next Monday - So, for the next 7 1/2 years I was a shift manager for a frozen food distribution company that supplied all frozen foods for Acme, A&P and Food Fair for a 3 State area.

Never looked back, but never forgot!

Oh, I did get paid for that week vacation - he said consider that a recruiting bonus.