Fired after 30 years of loyalty

...Hi there spilizzviz, Welcome to the ranch, enjoy yourself. It's a nce place to meet new friends. Sorry to hear about your mom losing her job after so much time there. Today it is very hard as companies are paring their employees all over. They also tend to ease those out who are just getting ready to get a pension, so their costs will be lower. Health care is an issue as well. they hire younger people and make them pay for their own pensions by having a 401k or something also contribute to their health care in a larger way. It the old bottom line issue and many people are being affected today with the sluggish economy. There as one woman that I read about, who was fired from a law firm, she called up some banks and asked if they needed someone to clean the homes that they had foreclosed on to get them ready for sale. She earned $60,000 her first year cleaning the houses. You could also. if interested start a small cleaning company and send people out, get them bonded, whatever. Another lady I saw on television started to bake Italian quiche pies and sold them downtown out of an old ice cream truck she purchased. Sometimes the creative spirit will take over. Good luck to your mom and take care.

with no compensation at all? that is why I guess that it's better to have a small business because if your an employee, your head or employers might fire you...it really is unfair, but be positive, maybe fate has another plan for your mother...

capitalists do not commonly share what workers and employees feel. they have a different view or perspective of the whole thing. like in your case, it does sound unfair that a loyal worker or employee would suddenly be kicked out but on the other hand, the capitalist thinks it would be unfair for him to employ one who will not be performing at par anymore because of her age. two opposites and they will never meet at one point, i bet you.

That's just horrible, support your mother as she must be feeling soooooo bad. I could never do that as a boss, I think this is a very ugly betrayl and hope this boss get what he deserves. How could you ever scr*w someone that even being paid for helped you for 30 years?? Just horrible. Some humans just don't have a heart!!!

Dear Friend as your mother is doing a job in a private sector so it is not a surprising matter for me. Because they don't provide you the life time oppurtunity to work with the company. They will need the employee as much he or she can work but they feel that this employee is producing less work they just took a decision of firing without any type of Notice as happened to your MOTHER

Unfortunately there is no such thing as loyalty. You will remain employed as long as you are an asset to the company. Once they see you as unproductive, they will do their level best to get rid and employ someone who is. Hopefully your mother hasn't been living hand to mouth all those years and has built up a decent pension on which she can live off when the time comes. Yes, times are hard. :(

That's too bad what happened to your mother. This should be a lesson to everyone to have a plan B and not get too comfortable because it can all be gone tomorrow. My plan B is to always have multiple streams of income. I can't just rely on one job to meet my needs that's why I am always online trying to find ways to make money from multiple sources. My plan B is to have my own businesses so that if one income steam goes away I will have other income. I wish your mother luck.

That is such ashame and very unfair. It just makes you wonder why you put in all those years of hard work just be given the boot at their convience. I'm sure your mother is very upset about this and she has every right to be. It is so sad that a company would want to get rid of a good and loyal employee just because they are growing or what not. It just proves that the loyalty you give to a company does not mean that it will be returned to you. I hope that your mother is able to find something soon.

hi splizzviz I am angry for your mom to as thats no way to treat someone who had put in 30 years in a company. the old age thing among the younger bosses is sickening. I was the recipent of being fired after 23 years not because my work was not good, my boss said she hated to have to let me go as I was her best worker but Mrs Hatley you are almost 80 and I said so what. I found o ut later from myfriends in the library that the second in command, thirty something, disliked old people and did not want any on her staff so she sort of black mailed my boss into firing me by herself threatening to quit. ironically two weeks later headquarters fired them both for using agism as a reason to fire me and wanted me back. okay great.I could not go back because I had had a bad fall broken my shoulder so badly I had to have a shoulder joint replacement. and in that surgery I came out with loss of motion in my left arm so badly I co uld not lift books and media u p to shelve them. So I had to refuse their generous offer.but your mom, is probably much younger than I am so whgat the heck is she going to do in this awful econly?