Dean Singleton should have a scorpion tied to his scrotum

Companies have the right to terminate (or permanently replace, in corporate-speak) anyone who has been off the job for 6 months on disability. If this photographer gave birth in early May, her six-month clock expired this week, which is when the company pulled the trigger.

I only know this because of my days in management for a truly godless company. It had a circulation employee who claimed disability got a doctors' excuse to stay off the job. So the company left his job open for six months and fired him as soon as he hit six months.

 

Jelenic's a Floyd fan?

 

Nah. He's a fan of ruining things, so he likes the Fred Durst version.

 

These are the kind of stories kids in high school need to be told before they waste their money on Journalism majors. Kids should take a few journalism courses and get stringer jobs if they actually want to get in this hellhole of a business, not major in this black hole profession. What a horseshit move to fire this woman. My god what a world we live in!

 

Don't want this one to get lost. Well done.

 

Fredrick, put your torch down. This shit happens in every business.

Doesn't make it any less hard to stomach, but file this under "corporations are heartless" not "journalism sucks".

 

Not to get political, but this also what happens when companies are kicking in money for employee's health care -- they find any way possible to get rid of the employees who use it, especially if the health care is self-funded. (As in, the company covers all claims, not an insurance company -- the insurance company is hired only to manage the benefits.) By the way, by self-funding, companies get the advantage of not being beholden to state laws mandating minimum levels of coverage, maximum time for paying claims, etc.

 

Actually, it should be filed under "corporations are heartless" and "journalism sucks"

 

What does it have to do with journalism when other corporations in other fields do the same thing?

 

Bub, this is heartless and I don't think I've ever heard of a J shop being this cold.

 

Is there a link to this memo on the Internet? I'd like to demonize the P-P over this issue on various social networking sites.

 

The wrong person got cancer.