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Bad Dog Wrote:Now,the interesting news.

Last week, the only engineer who knew a certain, difficult, product line was fired. Official reason was attendance. Real reason was that he was passed over for promotion, and did not remain silent. Many at our workplace are far in excess of the official cutoff point for tardiness/attendance, but are not acted on.

OK, things have degenerated at your soon to be former employer.

Quote:Tuesday, I was finally hired on at another company. Full-time, permanent, with benefits, forty hour week. 20% pay increase. I put in my 2 weeks written notice, gave the supervisor a phone call as well. I had one day of sick time remaining, so I decided to use it.

This is so Texas Hold'em.   Bad Dog is asking Rags what sort of 2 cards Bad Dog's/soon to be former employer are  holding:

Past action at the tables:

1.  Bad Dog has been the "good employee"  until he got his departure ticket
2. The departure ticket has arrived and Bad Dog did an aberrant action of taking a sick day. In Hold'em that's like a calling station raising pre-flop.  IOW, your supervisor knows you have a legit "hand".
3. The action of another employee is a "tell" on the part of your employer. That info is worthless wrt  Bad Dog, so is to be used to deduce the action of the current employer and how it plays its hand.

Bad Dog Wrote:Guess what happened?

1. I think I can rule out a counter offer by the employer due to prior action on "good employee".

So, using poker logic, Rags has some guesses as to the hand in play right now.

1. The employer/supervisor fired  Bad Dog straight after getting the 2 week notice. Rags thinks Bad Dog's soon to be former employer is one shitty poker player. Too predictable.  That player profile is the most likely.

2. A distant second.  You got denied your sick day and when you forced that issue, then you got fired.

3.  And...  I see your soon to be ex employer has progressed to the state of my employer. They have to deal with the anomie of their staff basically fucking things off because they know they are now unable to replace the staff en masse. In time, things will degenerate to the point those employees will taking company time to go out and run errands. I've done that. I've gone grocery shopping and picked up my scrips.  I use the company car to get the scrips.  Oh, btw, does the office show signs of advanced neglect like leaky ceilings and roaches? My employer has that as well.  I can of course go into the advanced neglect/broken-ness stage of assorted office equipment ad nauseum.

4. Other employee.  As far as this hand is concerned, that's a non issue.  He saw action in an entirely different hand.   That an independent event which has no bearing on the hand in question, with the glorious exception of the ability to fine tune the profiling of that ummm, "player".

Btw, is your soon to be ex-employer a publicly traded company?  I'd really like to know the name so I can fire off a put option trade. You see, I checked the insert schedule where I work and there's an aberrant change by a zombie bricks and mortar retailer.  They've reduced their inserts by 1/2.  I'm fixin to fire off a put option trade on this puppy.  I'll do some more reconn by visiting the store so I can fine tune the entry point a bit.