I know, it's pretty hypocritical. The Director expects 2-4 weeks notice when people leave, but was wanting someone to start immediately.
The absolute height of hypocrisy is the practice of demanding two weeks notice from employees who are quitting, but, providing zero notice when it's the employer who decides to get rid of the employee.
If you want to take a new job, you're "required" to give two week's notice. If you're getting dumped, it's "come into my office at the end of the day" -- and then, when there, it's "don't come back on Monday."
I'm sure the "captialism as religion" crowd will chime in with how it's the employer's right to do anything he wants, and the employees have no rights other than to be paid for work performed, and since "it's the employer's business", they should just shut up and get out.
Legal? Oh, probably. But,it sure does create resentment, cynicism, bitterness, and, in the long run, results in employees who have no loyalty whatsoever to the employers. Why should they be loyal to someone who has NO loyalty to them?
In the final analsys, we end up with a culture in the "end stage" of its course, with foreign competitors eating our lunch.
With the exception of contractors, and employees released for specific reasons like violating company policy I cant say I much disagree with you.
Uh, oh, now you've done it. Better put on your asbestos suit. The money worshipers will be out in force to get you. For many on FR, the Unforgivable Sin is to even think about (much less voice) concerns or questions about the FR version of "capitalism" (i.e., greed). You can't even think about doubting that Holy Of Holies, "The Free Market". Quaint concepts like decency, morality, doing the right thing, treating your fellow citizens with compassion and respect, etc., have no place when all that you are is bought and sold in the marketplace. And forgot about placing any stock in that obsolete concept of national sovereignty and security, which we can't let stand in the way of globalism-driven profits.