How To Avoid Paying Severance

In these tight financial times,
executives are doing their best
to avoid giving costly severance packages
to downsized employees.

One way to do that?

Isolate and ignore.
A loved one’s manager was replaced.
He had been with the company
for decades.
The severance package would have been substantial.

So the company didn’t lay him off.
They moved him to a smaller office,
took away his assistant
and his staff,
gave him a useless task to do
and then ignored him.

Completely.

The manager was upset
but there was no basis for a lawsuit
(ignoring someone is not a crime).
Eventually his ego couldn’t take it
and he left.

No severance paid.