With his seniority, skills and knowledge I'm surprised this accident cost him his job. It's almost like they were looking for a reason so they could replace him with someone that would be paid less to save money.
lots of cuts going around everywhere. I doubt seniority had anything to do with it. But like you said, probably any reason to unload some payroll.
Sounds like a perfect fit with zero effert on my part...TY for the in sight.
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Damn, with that skill set you can knock on a couple doors and have more contract work than you know what to do with. Silver linings Dave. You’ll appreciate this bump in the road as it’s only up from here.
Missed a not in there. Thanks
Yeah she has always had a hard on for me since she took over. This is a small family, 3rd generation company here. In the last couple of years it's been a real easy position at $150k+bonus year. Her older brother, president at the time, hired me in 2014 at $120k+bonus. He did a good job of taking the company forward with big investments in newer technology equipment. Family/board members were not getting their expected yearly dividends so the voted him out of office and voted the youngest daughter and now President a couple of years ago. Total control 24/7...Real bitch too...I'm already over it...
Fair point unfortunately. Of course we all feel badly for SoCal Dave
Thats cold bro if I get your meaning.... [Forum disclaimer: we partying up in here.
Jesus
Having worked in the big boy sales world for global businesses my bosses always said when I asked them the worst part of their jobs was the expense acct mangement piece. Gotta be real careful with those company cards.
Thats the key right thereI accidentally used my company card to pay for take out dinner one evening.
A few weeks later the bookkeeper brought it to my attention asking about the charge.
I explained it was accidental as my personal card and my company card look identical.
Luckily I own the company but she still dinged my shareholder account for reimbursement.
These things happen but I hold my employees responsible for catching the mistake and being the one to bring it to light first.
Good feedback on this thread so I'll jump in.... Dave I believe your post here is your ultimate true answer. She was given an opportunity to let you go and took it. There is definitely something called 'Aged Out" and at yur age you need to understand that it's not like when you were in 40s... I recently interviewed for positions I got in my sleep 10-20 years ago and they all passed so it became very apparent I was aged out. As someone mentioned use your network to leverage relationships in your verticle industry... thats your value... especially that acct you said was yours in past. You'll find best results that way. Sorry this happened but it wasn't anything personal... she's a bitch , time passed and thats all.
I like the opposite of “aged out”. Whenever I can I try to go older. The younger peeps are on the godamn phone. Yeah, I am on it now but my work is done for the night and I am the boss.
Those company cards are great but troublesome when you have two identical Amex in wallet which was my case some time ago. I went and got a Amex gold colored to differentiate from companies green. @SoCalDave said the charge was in July so how he didn't catch it expensing is rare however his company may not have sophisticated online accounting like Concur as an example. Thats when employees using cards catch those mistakesI like the opposite of “aged out”. Whenever I can I try to go older. The younger peeps are on the godamn phone. Yeah, I am on it now but my work is done for the night and I am the boss.
Sorry to Dave too. Sounds like the lady is not into talking first.
Last year my accountant made me pay back my own company. I just hit buy now on Amazon not realizing the company card was set to default. About $800 worth of various shit. I thought my Amazon card bill was low but didn’t think much about it.
Very sorry to hear about your setback Dave. I’d go straight to their main competitor and see it “they need help”
100%..............a job is just a job. I feel like sometimes we get too wrapped up in our work and it becomes who we are.
Speaking as a future Texan, that little nugget has some real value. Good luck in your new venture whatever it may be.
I never bill double time unless it's absolutely necessary. But I answer the phone and emails even on vacation. It never got deducted. I could see if you had a habit of doing it which is cause for termination.
I only allow one lead guy a company card currently. Every other employee has used and abused so now they have to turn in receipts for reimbursement.
No offense to Dave, but we are only getting his side of the story. We don't know what the perspective of the employer was.You may be correct, but mistakes do happen, so intent to steal is unclear, and termination without warnings is frowned upon. When the employee is 65 years old, and has had no disciplinary action previously (I’m making an assumption here), age discrimination is a concern. I never would have fired a long-term employee for an incident like this, unless there were extenuating circumstances. All that said, I’m no attorney, just a retired old fart with a little time on his hands.
You may be correct, but mistakes do happen, so intent to steal is unclear, and termination without warnings is frowned upon. When the employee is 65 years old, and has had no disciplinary action previously (I’m making an assumption here), age discrimination is a concern. I never would have fired a long-term employee for an incident like this, unless there were extenuating circumstances. All that said, I’m no attorney, just a retired old fart with a little time on his hands.
I have this issue now with my guys using the Amex at card as gas stations. Might just go to a 100% gas card, but need one that works National wide.
Cardlock fuel, they don't even have a cashier on site. Just pumps.
Screw it, lets buy some old worn out molding machines, find a building where every neighbor hates us, borrow a shit ton of money, buy a bunch of gaylords full of reground material and not tell the customer, and mold some parts. Well get an old pick up truck and box truck to make deliveries that will break down all the time. Well buy some used boxes for pack out, short pay our electricity bill every month, work 20 hr days, and rarely get paid.
Before I retired I had a Chevron card. I had to type in the code and mileage. The owner would get the info to track our gas amounts.
My company uses this. It's an am pm card but will work at any station. Mileage and last 4 of social you get fuel anywhere. Zero points but with our fleet I am sure there are some kind of perks involved.
i dont need this type of petty shit for a reason to get termed. But I aint sitting bitch in a middle seat on Spirit either!
