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    <author><![CDATA[to waiting]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Time to send in the Bobs
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:59:03 -0600</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Thomas Lundby]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Management separates itself from physical contact with workers for the sake of "efficiency" because, God forbid, that businesses be anything other than a way to make money for shareholders.
    
    Seriously, check the following article out. Companies will even hire people just to fire employees these days.
    
    http://www.inc.com/magazine/20071101/meet-rebecca-shes-here-to-fire-you.html
        
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      <![CDATA[as someone working while i KNOW i'm getting laid off any day now, i find myself torn. should i be professional and show up until i am asked not to (putting myself in the escorted out category) or not show up and screw over my desk? both sound unappealing. it is a sad state of affairs over here...
        
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      <![CDATA[if it happens again, the laid off should demand to clean out their own desks, say goodbye to their colleagues, etc. Security guards, unless they are carrying a gun (oops, oh well...) are not police officers and have no legal authority over you other than intimidation.  If they want to call Chicago Police, let them. Even if someone does have a gun, he'd (um, presuming the security guard is a male) would have to then call the real police for backup. Hopefully the laid off can quietly explain to the officers what is going on and that they'd just like to clean out their own desk, and if the cops insist on arresting them, go ahead. The negative publicity would be awesome and there'd be lawyers waiting outside the lockup, eager to file the future lawsuit. 
    
    maybe that's irrational, but it's tough to think rationally these days.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Michael Miner]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Pruter assumes right.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:42:00 -0600</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Robert Pruter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I have never understood why corporations need to make terminations so brutal. After 27 years at my previous place of employment, I was let go with one days notice.  I needed that extra day to clear out the accumulation in my work station, yet I still felt offended by my abrupt departure. The Sun-Times management acted in a morally repulsive way in throwing out three of its employees like garbage. I see no reason why those employees could not be treated with more dignity and respect, and allowed to cleaned out their desks. What does management fear in such situations, that the employees would go postal? When the Reader downsized a couple of months ago, the employees were allowed a respectful exit, I assume. I assume they received a reasonable window of notification,and that they were not escorted out of the building by security. If the Reader can treat its terminations with respect, why can't the Sun-Times?
        
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