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[dolari]

Suddenly wonders if the sudden layoff has anything to do with the much belated raise, she said with much paranoia.

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[bmowder.livejournal.com]

Jenn-

I got laid off like that once- They called me in for an employee review, informed me that I had got a 10% raise, and laid me off, all in one quick low-cost meeting.

Human resource departments (IMHO) show a remarkable lack of sensitivity, and I've always wondered where they find the people who do that sort of work. I suspect that they used to be guards at Gitmo, or possibly magazine editors.

If your writing and art are are any indication of your skills and sensitivity to the situations of others, then you can be assured that it was NOT an act related to your merits as an employee.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Human resource departments (IMHO) show a remarkable lack of sensitivity

When I worked for the Bureau of Stats, I was given an envelope by the HRD manager. When I opened and read it, I discoverd it was a copy of a legal opinion stating that if I were to use the woman's toilets I could, under the 1905 Judges Act, be a) prosecuted and b) dismissed from the the public service.

That was the first thing I read that day. Came "this close" to being suicidal. But I didn't, and eventually I found a way of moving on from that job, and that style of job. But it took time (and nowdays that just isn't an issue).

So yes, HRDs can be absolutely heartless and stupid.

[bmowder.livejournal.com]

Ms. Seabrook-

No argument there- I am still curious about where they hone those HRD skills. I have never seen an HRD intern. Do you suppose they are parthenogenic? If they are an unfavorable mutation, what do you suppose the parent stock might have been? Sharks?

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

It was Western Australia in the early 90s, so it was on par with the attitudes of the time.

[bmowder.livejournal.com]

Ms. Seabrook-

...would this, by any chance, be the reason you live in EAST Australia?

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

One of them. I finally escaped the oppressive gravity of the most isolated city in the world.

[bmowder.livejournal.com]

Ms. Seabrook-

Funny- We never hear things like that in the tourist adverts for Australia...

Nearly as I can gather from what we see about Australia here in America, once they lick the beer shortage, Australia will be perfect. ;-)

I often wonder what impression the rest of the world has about America. I mean, do Americans doing Australian accents sound as silly to Australians as Australians doing American accents sound to Americans?

I mean no disrespect to Australia, I just suspect that probably humans are pretty much the same everywhere...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

There have been some real atrocities when it comes to fake accents. Thunderbirds and the Bond films have much to answer for. However, after living with an ex-pat Marylander (who referred to "Ballymor" near the "Oshun" I now realise that they were CANADIANS pretending to be yanks.

It used to be that when Hanna Barberra or others tried Australian Accents they'd just get it wrong:

[bmowder.livejournal.com]

Ms. Seabrook-

Ouch! or to use an Americanism, STEE-RIIIKE! Yer outta there!!!

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Ms. Seabrook-

Ouch! or to use an Americanism, STEE-RIIIKE! Yer outta there!!! <free translation, A clean miss>.