hornfans-style response to termination letter

[BigWill]

The Link

It appears like this guy was laid off, and then received a letter telling him he would have been fired anyway. His response would lead one to believe that he posts here.

 

[Texanne]

I don't know about the pad kee mao, but the sandwich sounds allsome!

 

[Longhorny630]

I don't get it, I hope I'm not alone.

 

[Third Coast]

The list of behaviors in the original letter would lead one to believe that he posts here.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

I spit egg salad all over my keyboard.

 

[TexasRx]

All. Some.

 

[Hpslugga]

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[Texanne]

It is our way.

 

[notreally]

i've been "sammich'd" on hornfans before. ********.

 

[notreally]

and, that is the best damn thing i've read all week.

 

[Texanne]

notreally,

It comes full circle when you sangwitch someone else.

It's like the Circle of Life.

 

[IRC]

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[gecko]

HR people are such idoits. I should know, I used to be one......an HR person, not an idoit.

 

[Sugarpunk]

gecko,

You do realize that you are claiming to have been one of the rarest creatures of mythology - an HR person who is not concurrently an idoit - right? If you say so...

 

[GemStateJim]

What's funny is I get the point of the follow-up letter, but I've no clue why that HR clown bothered with her missive.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

My guess is that the company regulations require that they notify an employee of a violation of that nature. Her take on it was that she is still required by regulation to notify the guy of a fireable offense - and the rule doesn't say anything about not doing it just for the silly technicality that the guy doesn't actually work there anymore.

Actually the more I think of it, this sounds like something our legal department would do - in the event that there is some knife letter-opening-related lawsuit against the company, they don't want anyone to be able to say "you didn't notify every employee who was ever guilty of this!" Stupidity ensues.

 

[BigWill]

I thought it was to prevent him from collecting unemployment...saying "you would have been fired for cause if we hadn't laid you off",

 

[smwhorn]

Big Will wins. Or, they could have previously offered some type of severance paid out over time. If they can show the employee would have been terminated, they can halt the severance payouts.

 

[TNLonghorn]

Good stuff! I'm hungry. What's for lunch?

 

[Statalyzer]

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[Texanne]

Apparently he's much better now ...