[Leica] FYI: legal press release

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

...for the reasons you just cited! They're people who still think
digital watches are a good idea.

ab


On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:18:50 -0500, Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com> wrote:
> I prefer hiring seasoned faculty and staff because they don't have to go
> through all of the screw-ups that we all did when we were younger. And I
> am particularly leery of people who have just completed graduate school.
> At that moment, a person's reality check quotient (how much they know
> divided by how much they think they know) is at its absolute lowest. The
> problem is, the folks who just got out of graduate school tend to favor
> other folks just out of graduate school.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted
> Grant
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 4:19 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] FYI: legal press release
> 
> Jeffery Smith offered:
> Subject: RE: [Leica] FYI: legal press release
> 
> > Good Grief! I'm 54 too. We've reached that age that we are seen as
> > expendable. Depressing.<<
> 
> It's amazing how the "young crowd" believe we older folks are cast offs
> and
> redundant when in reality we are the key to many a companies survival
> because we're the ones with the experience through the up's and downs of
> the
> company in good, bad and ugly economic times.
> 
> We're the one's who learned all the neat short cuts to save the company
> money and to show a better profit line. Then to dump the "experience"
> because they're not quite up to the 110% the young guys think they need
> to
> run the shop, they then get rid of old Sam or Jane before they die.
> 
> As happened in our family. We had one dumped, well a sort of "forced
> retirement" and within three weeks the company was begging her to come
> back
> because so many others had tried to fill her shoes but did nothing but
> screw-ups. It was then they realized that, "Old Pat really knew what she
> was
> doing!"
> 
> So she said, "Sure I'll come back... For double my previous salary, a
> car
> with vehicle allowance and a 6 week paid holiday without me contributing
> to
> the cost!" :-)  Hey and they jumped for it immediately. Now Pat's pretty
> bright, had them write it up, took it to her lawyer for approval and he
> suggested if they should let her go again for basically no reason other
> than
> she was "old" the severance package would be a 4 year buy out!
> 
> They went for it, but asked that she personally train new staff members
> in
> her position. Oh yeah and they couldn't get rid of her for a minimum of
> three years !
> 
> So sometimes it works out OK. Unfortunately rarely!
> 
> Good luck with your situation Brian! And there's only one way to do
> this..... "Absolutely take no prisoners, grind them into the ground till
> they're crying, then stick them again!"
> 
> Then maybe a few of these dumb ass SOB's might realize they'll be "older
> some day," if they're lucky, and would they want to be treated in
> similar
> fashion as they treated you!!
> 
> "Stick it to them mon ami!" Take no prisoners, but get all their money!
> 
> ted
> 
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