Wanna know how many people (pawns?) have been laid of by companies in the USA?
When a company lays of 10 000 of its employee, it’s a sign the top management should be laid of first.
@elecharny
I worked for a US firm here in Luxembourg. We all got an email one day from the management in the US saying that the company's stock price had taken a hit on "the street" and as a result they needed to make 650 employees redundant worldwide. When the boss (also an American) told the VP in the US how much it would cost them to make people in Luxembourg redundant, they only fired one person. They had to pay him six months salary plus holiday pay (minimum 10 days) along with pension and social security contribuions as he had been with them for a long time!
I overheard the shouted conversation between our boss in Luxembourg and his boss in the US. The boss in the US seemed completely unaware that even US companies in jurisdictions outside the USA have to comply with the laws in those countries. Staggering ignorance for someone in such a senior position! and of little comfort to the people who were going to lose their jobs to support that company's stock price!
@Paulos_the_fog Yeah, same thing here in France…When Google started to fire people like if they were just disposable dung, some of my fellow Google people where a bit scared, but AFAIK, it went smoothly, due to the cost of firing someone here, and the consequence when you fire more than 10 people: you can’t hire anyone for a full year without proposing to re-hire the employees being made redundant…
In other words, it’s a paperwork nightmare ;-)
Americans tend to demonstrate very limited comprehension of the fact that everywhere on earth is not like America. When I was living in Thailand, an American retiree who had literally just arrived there for a cheap retirement (with benefits), asked me if he could legally carry a loaded firearm in Thailand. When I replied "No, not without a permit" He said "Where do I get a permit?" to which I replied "As a foreigner, you would never get a permit in a million years!". He then went into a sulk and a few days later, presumably after checking the veracity of my reply, left Thailand for some other country where they would let him carry a firearm!
Ah yes but the French complain about everything in France as well!
@Paulos_the_fog Note that it’s the same for mostly everyone parting their own country to setup in another one.
Like, for a French: « What? We can can’t complain about EVERYTHING??? » ;-)