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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:57:27 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> And five minutes ago, I got a phone call telling my that... my boss...
> no longer works for this company. O_O
Clearly either you weren't the only one having problems with him....or he
found another job and gave his notice - and they gave him an immediate
vacation. (I've seen that happen here in the US - someone in IT gives
their notice and they have their access revoked immediately and are told
to take a paid vacation).
Jim
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
news:4b670a5b$1@news.povray.org...
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:57:27 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> > And five minutes ago, I got a phone call telling my
that... my boss...
> > no longer works for this company. O_O
>
> Clearly either you weren't the only one having problems
with him....or he
> found another job and gave his notice - and they gave him
an immediate
> vacation. (I've seen that happen here in the US - someone
in IT gives
> their notice and they have their access revoked
immediately and are told
> to take a paid vacation).--Jim
I put in a 2 month notice and the next day they handed me
two month's pay and told me to go home... :) I guess they
were worried...
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:16:05 -0800, DungBeatle wrote:
> I put in a 2 month notice and the next day they handed me two month's
> pay and told me to go home... :) I guess they were worried...
In my experience, it's not that they're worried, it's just policy for IT
people - and from my own perspective, I actually like the policy, because
that means when something goes "boom" after you've left, they can't blame
you for it (well, they can try.....)
Jim
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>> And five minutes ago, I got a phone call telling my that... my boss...
>> no longer works for this company. O_O
>
> Clearly either you weren't the only one having problems with him....or he
> found another job and gave his notice - and they gave him an immediate
> vacation.
Nope. As far as I can tell, they just wanted to save some money.
The guy in question clearly had no idea this was coming from the tone of
the emails I got from him the day before. Just normal day-to-day stuff.
And a few hours later *poof*, gone.
As I say, as far as I can tell, nobody was upset with him, they just
wanted to reduce the payroll bill...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:4b671df6$1@news.povray.org...
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:16:05 -0800, DungBeatle wrote:
>
> > I put in a 2 month notice and the next day they handed
me two month's
> > pay and told me to go home... :) I guess they were
worried...
>
> In my experience, it's not that they're worried, it's just
policy for IT
> people - and from my own perspective, I actually like the
policy, because
> that means when something goes "boom" after you've left,
they can't blame
> you for it (well, they can try.....)--Jim
Guess next time I"ll put in a 6 month notice! :)
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:01:04 -0800, DungBeatle wrote:
>> In my experience, it's not that they're worried, it's just
> policy for IT
>> people - and from my own perspective, I actually like the
> policy, because
>> that means when something goes "boom" after you've left,
> they can't blame
>> you for it (well, they can try.....)--Jim
>
> Guess next time I"ll put in a 6 month notice! :)
LOL, longer paid vacation. :-)
First job after college that I had I left with 2 weeks notice - though I
had the flexibility to offer them as much time as they needed since I was
the only one doing the job there. They were fine with the 2 weeks, but I
never met my replacement.
Jim
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:21:58 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> And five minutes ago, I got a phone call telling my that... my boss...
>>> no longer works for this company. O_O
>>
>> Clearly either you weren't the only one having problems with him....or
>> he found another job and gave his notice - and they gave him an
>> immediate vacation.
>
> Nope. As far as I can tell, they just wanted to save some money.
>
> The guy in question clearly had no idea this was coming from the tone of
> the emails I got from him the day before. Just normal day-to-day stuff.
> And a few hours later *poof*, gone.
That's often the case. I had a boss who was sacked for incompetence, and
he didn't find out until after lunch when he was escorted from the
building. Had discussions with a vendor (who had flown in) earlier in
the day, even.
> As I say, as far as I can tell, nobody was upset with him, they just
> wanted to reduce the payroll bill...
There may well have been something going on that just wasn't apparent
from that far away. This could be a good thing for you. :-)
Jim
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:4b675753$1@news.povray.org...
> First job after college that I had I left with 2 weeks
notice - though I
> had the flexibility to offer them as much time as they
needed since I was
> the only one doing the job there. They were fine with the
2 weeks, but I
> never met my replacement.--Jim
I've never met a replacement at any job I've had. No matter
how long my notice was. Most places I've worked preferred to
take the salary savings for about 6 months after my leaving.
I guess nothing I've done was important enough for me to
pass the torch.. Or maybe they were just worried... :)
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:58:56 -0800, DungBeatle wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:4b675753$1@news.povray.org...
>> First job after college that I had I left with 2 weeks
> notice - though I
>> had the flexibility to offer them as much time as they
> needed since I was
>> the only one doing the job there. They were fine with the
> 2 weeks, but I
>> never met my replacement.--Jim
>
> I've never met a replacement at any job I've had. No matter how long my
> notice was. Most places I've worked preferred to take the salary savings
> for about 6 months after my leaving. I guess nothing I've done was
> important enough for me to pass the torch.. Or maybe they were just
> worried... :)
I've only done that once myself - and it was the company I was at before
Novell (ie, my last employer); I had been waiting for 6 weeks for a
background check to be finished (working for a company with export
controlled software kinda requires it) and had also been scheduled by my
then-current-employer to visit Microsoft. I told them to hold off on my
nonrefundable travel, and my project manager (but not my boss) guessed
why. We started putting a transition plan together, but the guy who took
over for me for the big project I was working on was a member of the
team, so the handoff was pretty smooth.
But I always have tried to make myself available; I can think of one
exception, but I was asked to leave that job (and was glad to just get
the hell out).
Jim
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> One time we had some guy work for us who had been in some kind of
> traffic accident. It did something to his brain; he apparently had no
> short-term memory. We'd train him to do something, and two days later he
> had no recollection of ever having done this task. In the end we let him
> go again,
"Again"? Did he keep coming back?
</tasteless humour>
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