Loyalty
Met an ex-colleague yesterday. An unexpected pleasure, and a quick catch-up. She has been working for the same company for the last twelve years. It would be fair to say the company has been successful in this time. The company has decided to shut its UK operation, and she is being made redundant along with all other staff.
The redundancy package is exactly the legal minimum, which is a fixed, and relatively small, amount of money for each year of employment, and in her case is equivalent to little more than one month’s salary.
Then, just before the notice period was due to begin, head office asked her to take on a new project, as there was noone else available with the appropriate skills or experience.
Aside from the rights and wrongs, there will be a lot of people – like me – whose picture of this well-known and hitherto well-respected company, will be completely altered by the story we hear from people we know and trust. The company’s reputation in this country is toast, and it really would _not_ have cost a lot of money to have prevented that happening.
picture: net_efekt