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Conan’s firing highlights iniquitous U.S. hiring practices

January 22, 2010

And the question is: Who should really be fired? OK. So the man is getting $33-million dollars and sure, that’s something. Good for him. His future might be up in the air, just like the George Clooney (movie) laid-offs. But at least he has the means to plant his feet back on the ground. (See [...]

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You’re fired! And — is the ‘at will’ clause the cause of the bad boss syndrome?

December 24, 2009

A friend — I’ll call her Suzie (and more about people not wanting their names used around lay-offs in a future post) — fell victim to a recent round of layoffs in San Francisco. I say victim, but she felt less victimized after she left than when she worked there. Why? Simply put, she was [...]

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