I was the network admin for carOrder.com when it went under. 2 months
severance on top of my monthly paycheck that was coming up..woohoo! It gave
me plenty of time to seek out a new job anyway ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Cossey"
To:
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Cisco fire staff [7:641]
> My company gives an automatic 6 months severance and this includes all
> benefits(health insurance, dental, 401K, and even stock options).. The
only
> requirement is you have worked full time for at least 1 year. One guy in
my
> department had 7 weeks vacation and personnal time coming as well as the
> severance package when they let him go. He is sitting in the Bahamas, as I
> write this, taking a nice vacation while I am working my tail off to take
up
> the slack from the cut backs. I am never the lucky one!
>
> Rick
>
>
> ""xc"" wrote in message
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> > 2 months automatic severance, plus another 4 months for signing their
> > severance agreement? So a total of 6 months severance? Damn good deal.
> >
> > I am no raving Cisco fanatic, and I certainly don't mean to offend any
> > ex-Cisco employees who may be reading this, but lots of companies are
> > cutting back now, and I rarely hear of a severance deal as good as
> Cisco's.
> >
> > This stands in stark contrast to some of the dot-gone dotcoms, as
> profiled
> > on fuc*edcompany.com, where not only were there people getting canned
> > without any warning and without their promised severance, but also there
> are
> > instances of people being screwed out of back-pay and expenses, given
> > severance checks that bounced, etc. I should know, my former dotcom
went
> > under and still owed employees several months (!) of backpay and
expenses.
> >
> > So in light of all this, I still consider Cisco one of the good guys.
> >
> >
> >
> > ""Victim"" wrote in message
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> > > What is your opinion on "cisco fire / umemploy staff " ?
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