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You took a 10 day vacation? What’s that like?
What city are you in? Want to grab beers or coffee and figure out our next moves?
I went home with pinkeye, then they called me at home asked me come back to the office. Turned out the CFO had flown in just to look me in the pink eye and lay me off.
My buddy and his partner got laid off over the phone, while in the middle of a shoot. No lie. Another team had to fly out to LA to relieve them as they flew back to NYC #FuckThisBusiness
Somebody in my shop got his layoff notice upon returning from bereavement leave. This industry sucks
Whoa, saatchi. Chill.
Been there! "Oh, surprised to see you here. Did they not call you?"
Yet another example of an agency giving benefits that they punish us for using.
What did the vacation have anything to do with it besides bad timing on their part?
ACD2 it sounds like your buddy was straight up fired. To be removed during production is a “save this thing / don’t let them near the client anymore” situation. Suspect there was some client or other drama behind the scenes and the layoff was the agency being nice.
This is just really shitty, and I’m very sorry it’s happening to you right now. Sending hopeful vibes your way.
I smell a wrongful termination lawsuit
Isn’t the whole point of paternity leave that you’re job is secured under fmla?
Severance?
Seriously, can all of these agencies be called out?
Had you known this was coming you could have stayed on vacation. Damn that sucks.
This is the shit that makes me want to get out of agency life.
Happened to me, too. Never take two weeks off again.
Happened to me after a two week shoot that went great. Got called in from the edit house. The politics in this biz are total bs.
Severance? 2 weeks. This is also less than a year since they recruited me. Had nothing to do with the vacation, or so they say.