We have a close friend who's been fired after just a month on the job. Basically, everyone that was hired with her has been fired on the spot.
Hire fast and fire fast is good as a slogan perhaps but there are people lives at stake here. I don't understand why companies hire 100 people and fire them a month later, didn't they know it's coming?
Same here, except it was my uncle. He worked at the plant in Nevada. I remember speaking to him a few days before the firings and he said Elon Musk was coming to the factory and that was not a good sign. Next thing he knew lots of people were summarily fired.
Basic incompetence + complete inhumanity + a completely corrupt political system that can be purchased by corporate interest at the expense of the common folk.
In my country (and most others outside of the US I'm sure (even China does employment law better the the US https://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/02/china-employee-terminat...) ) there's legal precedent and legislation to prevent employers from firing people without sufficient reasons and also to penalize employers who break a promise of employment.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] threadHire fast and fire fast is good as a slogan perhaps but there are people lives at stake here. I don't understand why companies hire 100 people and fire them a month later, didn't they know it's coming?
In my country (and most others outside of the US I'm sure (even China does employment law better the the US https://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/02/china-employee-terminat...) ) there's legal precedent and legislation to prevent employers from firing people without sufficient reasons and also to penalize employers who break a promise of employment.
The USA however is too corrupt to care for its citizens (HN usually DEMANDS the 'sauce' so here's the 'sauce' https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli....