Posted on 06/24/2022 5:54:38 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Joynese Speller was excited to start a new job as a project delivery specialist for a health care company on June 6.
As she wrapped up at her old nonprofit job on a Friday, she emailed her new company to confirm her start time on Monday. Hours later, she got another email: The company had some logistics to work out on their end, so Speller would actually start on Tuesday. That slid into Wednesday, and then Thursday.
On Friday, Speller got a phone call. Due to budget cuts, the job she hadn’t even started yet was being eliminated.
“I was told they were trying to find me a position in a different department, but it’s also the end of their fiscal year, so they’re taking a long time to get back to me,” Speller, 26, of Charlotte, North Carolina, tells CNBC Make It. “I left one job thinking I was going to another, so I wasn’t financially prepared for what was coming.”........
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Get you offer in writing.
This is about to happen in the company I work in. Hiring and spending freezes will happen after the 4th. I am sure if the market does not turn around by fall, the layoffs will start.
New job trend...
Saving 2 weeks of vacation time as your first 2 weeks at the new job, then quitting old job with no notice.
It’s amazing how this is acceptable, but if a new employee did this it’s unacceptable.
Similarly, an employee is supposed to give two weeks minimum, but a business will walk you out, with security, the instant they decide.
Companies have no allegiance anymore, so neither should employees.
People adapt to situations.
You vote for DemocRATs, you get the smell for free.
Welcome to the land run by folks who’ve never had a real job (nor could they keep one).
Let’s go Brandon!
“when”
I’ve done that. It’s also nice to collect two paychecks during the overlap.
Indeed. Wish it wasn’t this way but if you can get released without notice, only fair it goes both ways.
Loyalty in corporations is gone, so people shouldn’t be expected to have loyalty to them.
Lay in the bed you make.
Hope this doesn’t happen to me
Because I’m looking for a new job immediately
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That doesn't matter since it can be revoked. Last year a Kansas City firm announced large scale layoffs including new hires right out of college. People who, is some cases, had moved to to town to start the job. Employees in at will employment states have few protections, if any.
An oral promise is worth as much as the paper it is written upon.
Theoretically, an oral agreement is a “contract”, but try getting it enforced.
Even a written agreement can be broken before it is ever carried out in any constructive manner. Still very little that can be done, beyond gnashing of teeth, unless some patron takes up your case.
Getting the offer in writing doesn’t matter one iota. When the hiring freeze comes out, all offers are terminated. It’s far more logical to stop hiring immediately than let current employees go and keep hiring new, untrained ones.
Order books must be collapsing everywhere for this to happen. I was at Nortel Networks in the optical division in 1999 when we hit the wall. Orders just stopped coming in all at once in late spring/early summer and layoffs started immediately. CFOs have to act quickly in these situations and, unfortunately, labor is the only true variable cost you can reduce quickly.
It sucks being on the receiving end of a cut, especially in a broad down market when job openings have dried up. Doubly so because this downturn is 100% caused by idiotic government responses to COVID. Keeping interest rates at zero and creating $5 trillion COVID bucks out of thin air and giving it away did it.
And one of multiple reasons why unions are formed.
“Marquelle Turner-Gilchrist, 35, of Los Angeles thought he’d found a “match made in professional heaven” when he found an opening with a social commerce company in April.”
Maybe he should MAN UP a bit and stop using a Hyphenated Name, and a really stupid first name.
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