less then two months into new job, company was liquidated and operated under new name for 6 month now. 1 month into the job the boss say I'm doing a good job, the job is in sales but so far mostly I've been doing is admin and being a delivery guy, office cleaner... i suspected something was up when alot of talk were going on behind my back... today out of the blue "we gona have to call it quites", i say on what grounds??? he gives mostly vague answers...

"proudly Australian company".....

slainte said...

Name and shame S B

more info please

Happy recession starboarder

yeah happy recession... this is my second [}:)]

Bummer

The grounds are the company is going broke and can no longer afford your services Unfortunately as it goes for "toe cutting" unskilled are the first on the hit list.This is happening across the board on a wide range of companies at the moment. What is your age ? The only certain future for Australia i mining (id question that with the gfc)and the petrochemical
industry.

yep, feel your pain mate, just got fired aswell just before the end of my probation period,pretty convenient i'd say

Jarryd

That's workplace politics for you, my guess is the CEO, owner or director stuffed up big time and needed someone to blame.

Also sounds like the liquidation was a way of stealing money from other people by not paying out debts.

Hope you find something better.

^^^ The opposite in a small business...if you're a productive employee that covers your wage, overheads & then some, it doesn't matter if the boss hates you, he/she won't let you go because you're making him/her money! (keeping it pc)

Maybe we should be pollies??? 30% pay rise just announced! Personally, I think that they're underpaid, but in these times when there are so many without work, how can they justify a hike like that?!

starboarder said...

less then two months into new job, company was liquidated and operated under new name for 6 month now. 1 month into the job the boss say I'm doing a good job, the job is in sales but so far mostly I've been doing is admin and being a delivery guy, office cleaner... i suspected something was up when alot of talk were going on behind my back... today out of the blue "we gona have to call it quites", i say on what grounds??? he gives mostly vague answers...

"proudly Australian company".....

Dude, don't sweat it.

2001 I had been working for Dell all over the world, and in 2003 I joined a small local IT company... they didn't really have much, but they had a little IP (Intellectual Property).
I helped redevelop their product range from the UI to a really cool AJAX type framework (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX).
The GM (really good man) was impressed so he pimped our framework at the big banks... by 2006 we were in every Australian bank managing their Risk/Compliance (COSO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Sponsoring_Organizations_of_the_Treadway_Commission#Key_Concepts_of_The_COSO_Framework, SOX en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act and Basel II en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_II)

I had a nice office, onsite massages, anything we wanted to eat/drink, Christmas parties at Sydney's best restaurants, free money to gamble at the casino...

Then I started pushing to use a different underlying tech to deliver our software... it would require a fair amount of investment but would take us forward with multithreading, etc.

The company got a buyout offer from another Aus company... the directors approved the deal... the new owners took my nice office with a view... stopped my massages... and 1 day ~6 months in to the new ownership the new COO call me and other 2 people in to his office and said: Your computer accounts are being disabled as we speak, you have 20 minutes to say your goodbyes and leave the building.

4 weeks pay, and that was it.

In 2008 they sold the business to the 2nd largest software company in the world. Prior to that a lawyer contacted me offering $5000 to sign a document confirming the companies IP rights... I didn't sign.

But I didn't patent my AJAX/JSON type framework so I don't really have a leg to stand on... and in reality Dell probably own it cos that's when I wrote it, but I also had my own company and our contract wasn't really binding.

Anyway welcome to the world.

I think ethical credit is better than $ credit... but others don't, so be prepared to be farked by everyone who can fark you.