[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Anthony]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I said above, he wouldn't be working a month's notice if he had
> been fired.

You correctly qualified that with "In my experience people don't
usually" the first time.

In any case, the difference between "laid off" and "fired" is often
quite blurry, and people certainly often get notice when being "laid
off".

> "Resigned by mutual agreement" is more likely.

I don't know.  With the unemployment rate in the double digits, it's
often better to refuse to sign that "resignation by mutual agreement"
letter.  I wouldn't venture a guess one way or the other.

> I guess
> either a) he didn't fit in in the office, b) the job turned out to be
> not quite what he was expecting or c) he had some kind of major change
> of plan. None of those options really makes for a good rumour.

Being the head of office IT support for a bunch of techies is always a
tough job.