partygirluk
01-31-2005, 02:50 PM
Wasim has worked for my Dad's accountantancy firm for 4 years. He is an extremely nice, religious, taciturn immigrant from Pakistan. He has 3 children, who are late teens or early twenties. His wife does not work, and money is quite tight.
2 years ago my Dad's firm was bought out, and merged into a larger company. This business has been incompetently managed, and is recovering from a dire financial mess. Some weeks ago they looked at their books. Wasim is 57, and thus gets paid (relatively) highly. The senior management, of which my Dad is now a member, decided that he was costing more than he was making, so they were going to make him redundant.
Here is the tricky part. Jan 31 is a major tax deadline in the UK. Every year my Dad busts his gut during January, and he had to turn down an invitation to an amazing wedding in Florida that took place 2 weeks ago. It is a nightmare month for an accountant. He has been working 7 days a week, up to 14 hours a day this past week. My Dad's company did not want Wasim deciding to leave during this month, thus they held back from telling him until today. But tomorrow he leaves for a month in Pakistan, and so he is going to have no time to search for a job.
As a devout capitalist this leaves me in a quandry. From a purely business decision, they probably did the right thing. But from a human perspective, leaving this 57 yr, hard working, sweet man no time to find a new job, when they easily could have, strikes me as cruel.
What say ye?
2 years ago my Dad's firm was bought out, and merged into a larger company. This business has been incompetently managed, and is recovering from a dire financial mess. Some weeks ago they looked at their books. Wasim is 57, and thus gets paid (relatively) highly. The senior management, of which my Dad is now a member, decided that he was costing more than he was making, so they were going to make him redundant.
Here is the tricky part. Jan 31 is a major tax deadline in the UK. Every year my Dad busts his gut during January, and he had to turn down an invitation to an amazing wedding in Florida that took place 2 weeks ago. It is a nightmare month for an accountant. He has been working 7 days a week, up to 14 hours a day this past week. My Dad's company did not want Wasim deciding to leave during this month, thus they held back from telling him until today. But tomorrow he leaves for a month in Pakistan, and so he is going to have no time to search for a job.
As a devout capitalist this leaves me in a quandry. From a purely business decision, they probably did the right thing. But from a human perspective, leaving this 57 yr, hard working, sweet man no time to find a new job, when they easily could have, strikes me as cruel.
What say ye?