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Showing Original Post only (View all)After 14 years at the same company . . . . [View all]
They brought in a new manager last year who has been riding me since he got there.
Today, the hammer fell and for the first time in over a decade I'm out of work
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Grrrrr. I ran the IT department for this company single handed for 13 years, they expand the department, hire someone above me and I'm gone in 1.
I mean literally, I was the whole IT department for a 100 person company, all helpdesk, server administration, security, etc., I did it all . . . but somehow that doesn't count for much.
Ahh well, the search begins.
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Thats their modus operandi - fire anyone actually making a living to save money.
grahamhgreen
Nov 2014
#9
This manager had the gall to tell me "We're letting you go because of performance issues, but feel
ET Awful
Nov 2014
#20
Sympathy! On a good note, you will most likely end up with an increase in pay.
IdaBriggs
Nov 2014
#16
I think it was more that I was there before him and he always resented the fact that I wasn't a
ET Awful
Nov 2014
#33
You violated corporate rule #1. If you are caught growing older, you will be terminated...
whereisjustice
Nov 2014
#67