At 12:39 AM +0000 3/13/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:06:02 -0500
>From: "John Cwiklinski" <plinkochips@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Goodbye for now (Now OT)
>
>Good luck Bill and congrats on the new kid!
>
>Here in the US it is a different story. Where I work (very high-tech company)
>Project, Marketing, Sales & Program managers refuse to take vacation because
>once they leave they feel they won't have a job when they return. I've seen it
>happen numerous times in the past year. A very intelligent project manager was
>told to find funded work or else be laid off. Well, she did and then went on
>her scheduled vacation. When she returned the "boss" gave the work (that she
>found) to one of his old cronies and she was let go stating the work couldn't
>wait for her and the other guy was too involved now. Very sad. She refused to
>do anything about it and fortunately for her found work in another part of the
>company in Colorado. No OM content and my rant for the month.
My instant reaction is that she's been blessed -- one should not work for such
a boss. Period.
Joe
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