Wells Fargo fires employee for 1972 shoplifting conviction! The banksters can kiss my ass!

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87. Corporations in general stopped treating people as valued assets about 30 years ago

My stepfather was an engineer in the aerospace industry. He served in the Navy from 1934 to 1956, and landed his position at Convair immediately. He never worked anywhere else until his retirement in 1987.

He was laid off a few times due to lack of work. During the brief layoffs (none longer than five weeks) he was allowed to use the library and other facilities at Convair. He was free to look for other work, or wait until Convair got more contracts (which it always did back in those days.) Upon re-hire, his benefits and seniority were always grandfathered without question.

He had a nice defined-benefit retirement plan and a generous stock purchase plan. My mom is financially secure now partly because of those perquisites. All of that with NO UNION REPRESENTATION, EVER.

I'm 54 years old. I started working in 1981, and have never experienced that kind of relationship with an employer. I can't think of a single person in my peer group who does. Maybe one, a friend who works for DHS and is now located in Bonn, Germany. But what used to be the norm for US workers is long gone.

It's not just the banks. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

BTW, this thread isn't really about that. It's about a person who stole in her youth, got caught and convicted, lied about it on a job application, and now thinks it shouldn't be a big deal even though long-standing federal law is quite strict and clear on her ineligibility to have ANY job at a bank without prior approval from the FDIC.