Odd. Our legislature's last session ended months ago and the next isn't until January.
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Posted on 08/22/2007 9:01:25 AM PDT by txroadkill
Is your boss a nightmare? Not just annoying, but so completely lacking in people skills as to possibly be a sociopath?
There may now be more you can do than simply renting "Office Space" for the 11th time. The Los Angeles Times reports that lawmakers across the country are considering legislation that would give workers grounds to sue their superiors "for being, basically, jerks."
The specific standards for behavior that would justify such lawsuits are still being worked out. At least four state legislatures, including those in New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Washington, are considering such a measure
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I hear Australia is nice...kind of like Texas with more beer. That's where I'm going.
New Zealand has a freer business environment than Australia and the USA according to the World Bank. Might be nice there.
What ever happened to - if you have a boss that's a jerk - go find another job!!
Oh, perfect. Let’s give more power to lazy, incompetent employees that claim they are being picked on by a boss that expects them to actually work. I’ll admit I’ve worked for some real jerks for bosses in my career that usually were threatened by an ambitious-hard-working subordinate, but that was easily fixed. I found a better job!
Oh man, I would be rich by now if I had been given the right to sue a bad boss.
Australia (and New Zealand) are way liberal, and have extremely tight immigration laws (I know you were just talking, just saying :) )
That's what everyone that has ever worked for me did..:)
I dont know about this-we just survived 5 years of a terrible boss. Threats of violence, showing up drunk, and meltdowns at meetings. Sadly, I was the impetus for getting fired. I called him on a recorded line when he was the duty officer over one weekend. He was so drunk he didnt even know what I was telling him. We had a serious inflight emergency involving smoke in the cabin and cockpit which resulted in a diversion. When he didnt show up on the conference call, I tried to cover for him, but the VPs werent buying it. The pulled the tapes and canned him. He then spent the next two weeks calling flight control blaming me for his firing, and threatened to fail me on a drug test. We had to get a TRO against him..
When I was the boss, I guess I was a jerk. I demanded a full 8 hours work for 8 hours of pay. If you failed to perform, you heard about it from me, in person... and if you continued to under perform, it affected your pay raises and promotions.
I could have been sued for demanding performance.
Odd. Our legislature's last session ended months ago and the next isn't until January.
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Ah yes....another reason to bring a law suit. What’s the matter with people? If your boss is a jerk, go find another job. Enough people leave his department, his boss will get rid of him. When the industry changed from Personnel Departments to Human Resources, all this crap started. Little Hitlers were set up and think they control everything. I had a run in with HR one time. I wanted to fire a person. HR said “Well, maybe we can fix the problem by giving the employee some time to correct the problem.” I told this guy that “his job was to process paperwork and my job was to run my department. I already documented this person for 6 months, according to company regulations. Fire her and do it now.” This HR guy just leaned back and gave up. Managers of people have not only a responsibility to their people but their main job is to turn out products. Without products......no company. These people need to get a life. I’ve worked for jerks, thankfully, not many. If I found a jerk, I went someplace else.
This will shut down 90% of the economy.
What???? Don’t the tort lawyers have enough work already?
No problem, we can all sneak in together, steal all they Aussie's ID's, have a bunch of protest marches and demand that Australia change the laws while waving American flags.
I’m in big trouble. Anybody want to buy a drilling business? If the price is right, I’ll throw in a small manufacturing company. I’m the worst boss i ever had, wonder if i can sue myself?
That one put a big smile on my face. Sue yourself? I’d bet you could find an attorney that would take on your case. Let me know how it goes. Only problem I see is how are you going to cross examine yourself?
we can all sneak in together, steal all they Aussie’s ID’s
How about we just steal their women?
I once worked at a refinery were a worker won th lottery. After he got his money he went in and pee’ed in his bosses coffee cup and walked out.
Unfortunately, for every situation like this, there will be hundreds of jerks who don't want to work egged on by trial lawyers pushing the limits of what violation of the statute means. A substantial portion of those jerks are willing to lie to win the jackpot.
I don't know how you run a business under this sort of abusive law. Maybe video everything that happens in the business and archive the tapes.
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