it all comes crashing down
Posted by fartalot at 10:46 AM on November 24, 2008 in il non miei propri et le mie articoli.
wow. didnt realize it's been two months since my last post. even with the long hiatus, things havent much changed on my end. well, not that much at least.
about a few weeks back, our company started feeling the pinch of the US recession. some projects failed to materialize, thus costing us some potential revenue. the biggest effect, unfortunately, was on some of our newly hires. with the projects being scratched, most of the new hires never had a project to be assigned to. and with no future projects coming in, the management needed to let them go. as in retrenched. fired.
sure, a lot of people get fired even before. but the bad part was, since most of them were in still in their probationary period, they were terminated immediately. and since they were not regular employees, they were not given the usual 2months lead time to find another job. they were fired and sent home packing on the spot.
if you were a newly grad and this was your first job, it could be traumatic for sure, but at least you didnt give up an old job for a new one and lasted only a few months. it would mean that your expenses would be at minimum since you're just starting. but if you've been a worker for a few years, and you have monthly expenses that run at the tens of thousands of pesos, getting fired without a chance of being re-hired within a month of giving up your old job, this is virtually murder. how can they expect the person to pay for their expenses if they werent given time to look for a new source of income. this is the reason i hate probationary periods in a new employment. if, for any reason, during the probationary period, you get fired, it's effective on the spot. you'll be hardpressed to get a new employment before the next wave of expenses roll in.
so instead of the usual high, new hires get when they come into the company because of the promised high pay and all sorts of benefits, they're probably cursing our company and wishing it burn to the ground. i just wish im not in the building when it does.