Lay Off and Being Fired

Both if you ask me. folks will do things to say well a recession is going on, and we feel that we cannot keep you because it's affecting us too. To me, that's a bunch of crap. Right here in our fair city, the Mayor just laid off about 16-18 people from their jobs, but at the same time, he just got a $24,000 increase in salary. Now, you tell me, is that necessary?

Hi, i think recession is affecting the companies...and since they have not got enough project in their hand at the moment.so all these lay off drama is going on...recently 500 employees of an it major here had been given pink slips on the gate of the office while they were going to work...can you believe that!

i think they are just really being affected by the recession. Some companies might be doing that( making the economic crisis as an excuse to fire the people that they don't want) but i think most of them are just doing it for cost cutting. getting rid of the non-productive workers should be done w/ or w/o economic crisis, they(non productive workers) just deserve it because i can't see any point why a company should keep a non productive employee unless they want to go bankrupt.

yes i totally agree with you,everyone talking about the recession and every bossman want to cut down their employee's salary even fire some guys he/she don't like during the past longtime.my lawoffice also talking about to cutdown the salay , what affecting would a local lawoffice have during the socalled recession? why all the bossman can't bring a kind heart and realize that the employees also do benifits to the company and even all the benifits are made from the employees?

hey kerry..i think due to conomic crisis n recession heses companies ar compelled to lay off the employees but at th same time it has also given the oppurtunity which they may have been looking for some time to fullfill thier needs...means xtra advantage that no one is going to question them about that and if that happens they can blame recession...

hi,I have my own idea,in fact,the economy is now in recession,my companies is laying off workers,at the same time, in my hometown, it is also hard to find jobs for students who are going to graduating, if the company have strong potential power, they would not fire anyone. However...

well, i am fortunate enough to have a job in a stable multinational company and hence not affected at all during this recession time... but i know many other unfortunate workers who are being laid off because of this economic condition... i don't think companies are making excuses to fire people off just because of the recession... if they want to get rid of the non-productive workers, they could have done it long ago and don't have to wait for recession time to do it... take care and have a nice day...

Well, I kind of think that the recession is a valid reason to lay off workers - companies have to keep their stock market values up, and one way to do this is to show that you are cutting costs. It's unfortunate, but true. And if you are going to lay off workers, it makes sense to lay off the least productive ones.

I think it could be a little of both. Unions have, through the years, made it darned near impossible to get rid of slackers, which is only bad for the company and great for the workers. But, the recession is doing some serious damage to a lot of companies and they are desperate to stay afloat so they have layoffs. I hope the economy starts bouncing back soon!

Good discussion Kerry ,I think that mnany companies are using recession as an excuse to fire people.Some of these workers may really be people that they have waited to get rid off from a long time but then for others its just a quick fix to cut their expenditure and improve their profits.I believe this because many of these companies never look objectively at ways to trim their inefficienci.Many of them could have trimmed the perks and expense accounts of their upper management team and then think of a phased work session before thinking of laying off workers.And another reason why I think that these firing schemes are "half baked" is that many of the remaining workers ahve to work twice as hard doing two persons work anyway and this suggests that they were needed.

Hi Kerry for me i think that all these companies that lay off these people can do much better. I dont know if they hated their workers or not but what i can do tell you is they only care about profits and themselves. I think these companies can afford to keep the workers cut their time and the high paid staff cut their wages. That would be better for everyone thanks that's just my views.

I worked for a big multi national company for nearly ten years and they would use any excuse to cut back on their spending. Even now they have annouced layoffs which they are putting down to the recession. But even when the economy was booming they were still doing the same thing with layoffs and penny pinching and hurting the ordinary worker. Ok they might need to cutback with spending and such but not at the poor employees expense In my experience the companies use the current economic climate as on excuse to cut back and they don't care what kind of effect it has on their employees.

Why are there companies that wanted to get rid workers long before time? 1. Non-productive workers.. - Well, of course, all of us have to agreed that during recession, they will be selected to be retrenched.. 2. highly paid management workers - ok, they are productive, but one person pay can be equivalent to 10 people pay? they will be another bunch to go.. Why on earth there are companies that will retrench people that are hard-working, productive in terms of the salary that they are getting? Yeah, i agree that lots of workers that have worked in a specific company for decades are asked to leave, but that is because usually, younger people new to working industry, expecting a lower salary are able to do their job. Love your job, not your company, you never know when your company doesnt love you!!

hi Kerry, I agree with you. Maybe some of the company is real affected by the economic crisis, but there must be a part of the company take the opportunity to get rid of some workers.

I think recession is affecting all the companies...they are out of projects...so they are giving pink slips to the recent ones(i think)...an it company here had given pink slips to 500 of its tech employees on a single day...can you believe that...