The new owners of N’s company raised his salary by 18%, gave him a bonus in the amount of 50% of his annual salary, and gave everybody a paid vacation until January 2.
He’s getting fired, isn’t he?
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I’ve always had the impression that places that give out big raises and bonuses also tend to be the places that horribly overwork people and then get rid of them with little warning. I think you may not be seeing much of him after January 2nd.
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I think that if they wanted to fire him they would offer a more official severance package? This is all very stressful. I am very sorry.
Ol.
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“… and gave everybody a paid vacation until January 2 …”
And so now all of the halls are clear except for IT operations and facilities staff so that the auditors have free run of the place for roughly a week.
Of course, there will also be a late afternoon staff meeting on 2 January for which there will be parallel presentations in multiple rooms.
N will most likely be untouched, but this is fairly commonplace among acquirers so that they can break up existing lines of loyalties in order to form them around the acquirer’s people.
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