Posts tagged unemployment
Fired! Civil Duty: two different ends of the spectrum
Oct 20th
One fired because he was “too intimidating” (is that a real reason?) and the second because he went over his bosses head. The difference? One received a severance package that will ensure a clean separation, while the other is let loose after nearly three decades of service and is now suing to get his job back.
Keep your employment away from termination
A small Florida town has fired Bill Vance, its Town Manager, because he was too intimidating. The town’s Library Director has told the the town commissioners during a special meeting that she along with other staff members “are being intimidated, being ambushed.” Vance’s firing comes as a result of “such an amount of adverse comments.” Vance was terminated with a six-month severance package.
In New York, a Health and Hospitals Corporation employee has been fired for what he claims to be “unjust reasons”. According to Naren Gupta, his problems began when while serving as a senior management consultant for HHC, he discovered more than $1,000,000 in payments being made to Chase Manhattan Bank without a contract Read the rest of this entry »
Dog at the interview
Oct 19th
Through my years of conducting medical staffing, I have never come across anything quite like this. I’ve interviewed drug addicts and criminals. 
Single parents and new grads. Some came with their wives or husbands, some with their parents, some just brought a friend. Today I interviewed a woman for an open Art Therapist position at a local hospital. She walked in dressed very casually, looking almost Bohemian, with a long bag over her shoulder. As she’s taking a seat in front of me, out of the bag comes a long Pekingese! I was shocked! And she even brought the dog a bone! While I was trying to interview this woman, her dog sat on her lap chewing the bone, and kept barking at me cautiously to make sure that I wasn’t going for her prize.
I’m not sure what the hell she was thinking – how do you coach somebody on something like that? I mean you can coach on wardrobe, resume, grammar, posture… but you would think that someone with a masters from Columbia would think twice…
At one point, I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt, and asked her if the reason why she brought the dog in is because she is considering Read the rest of this entry »
This post was submitted by Greta.
Insensitive jokes will get you Fired!
Oct 16th
Ronan Tynan, the Irish Tenor who (used to) sing God Bless America at Yankee Stadium has been dismissed
Ronan Tynan Fired for Anti-Semitic Joke
by the Yankees organization for making an anti-Semitic “joke”.
This ill-conceived attempt at humor was made when Tynan told a real estate agent who was showing an apartment in his building to a doctor from NYU Medical Center that he’s “ok” with the potential new tenants “as long as they are not Jewish.”
A joke? I think not. If it’s a joke told in a private setting, it’s one thing, but if he’s saying Read the rest of this entry »
This post was submitted by Jim Joyce.
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