I think you'll all agree this is the logical move under the circumstances
Finally, a chance to blow some steam at the executive management drudgery I've had to cope with as a result of this 'credit crunch'. When a company misdeclares its assets and realises it's up shit creek without a paddle, my current employer would rather give the vessel a wine cooler and paint job than splash out on a sail and oars.

Just before Christmas I was pulled into a meeting room to be told there was a 60% chance I didn't need to come back after New Years as part of a new cost-cutting strategy. As I'm a student making a few pennies on an industrial placement contract, I'd be easily expendable during this campaign of 'hierarchical rejuvination' (this would also cause me to automatically fail my university degree of which I have worked part time since I was 14 to afford to do. Such pleas fell on deaf ears).

'Sorry Foxy, but the Executive Management Committe got together specifically to talk about this and the only way we can save money is to talk about your future in the company.'

Our EMC is a group of 8 blokes from every corner of the world, who every month each fly business class to Berlin from New York, Dubai, Sydney etc to discuss the future of the company in a hotel's conference centre for a few days. This redundancy meeting was extremely last minute and required a premium mate emergency get together.

8 people flying from all over the world to a hotel on no notice to discuss specifically my future - Upwards of £20,000
My salary - £16,000

They didn't see the problem. 3 of my colleagues got sacked last month.
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:10, 2 replies)

I'd have thought ...
.. that a suitable appeal to your uni would convince them to let you suspend and complete later, rather than automatically fail.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:56, closed)

twats
They sound like twats.

Can't you hand in to them a simple file showing the cost of their trips, and the cost of doing their meetings via a conference call? It'd save the company money, give you brownie points and no doubt be swiftly rejected too, but it may be worth a shot.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Sat 24 Jan 2009, 10:36, closed)