Why your job sucks: Sub shop employees fired two days before Christmas.

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59. My husband just got laid off 2 weeks ago.

The way they handled it was awful.

He had just finished his work week and he had been working the night shift. He came home that morning and went to bed. A few hours later, when they knew he'd probably be asleep, they left him a voice mail. All the person said was the following Monday he was to report to his manager's office to turn in his uniforms and sign some paperwork. Bear in mind this was a Friday afternoon and by the time he woke up and picked up the voice mail, it was too late to call and find out what was going on. He had to wonder all weekend what the hell had happened such as - was he fired or laid off? Did he do something wrong? Obviously we knew he lost his job, but he didn't know why. His manager didn't even have the stones to leave the voice mail herself, she had her assistant do it. No prior conversation about it, just the voice mail that gave instructions for something he was not informed of prior.

So obviously he had no notice, no severance was offered (even though their pay only allows a living from paycheck to paycheck lifestyle), 2 weeks before Christmas and it was done in the most cowardly way possible. He had even spoke to his other manager the day before this happened about an advancement in the same company (in a different department), telling him that he had a good chance of getting an interview. He had to have known that his boss was going to lay off my husband but he didn't tell him, instead making out that he could very well end up with advancement. I'm sure he was told not to tell him he was getting laid off, but he should have just politely said he wasn't sure about the advancement yet.

It makes me sick, these companies act like they are just decommissioning a robot, not caring at all that these are people who have families to support and bills to pay. This company is doing well financially btw, they are even in the process of expanding. He was told he could get called back at a later date, but who wants to go back and work for a company that handled their lay off as badly as they did? Unless of course there are just no other jobs.