HP finds new way to torment workers

IF YOU THINK HP behaves badly to its customers, you should see what it does to its employees. In the service group, woe betide you if you get a happy WFR (Work Force Reduction) note, the bad things are just beginning.

HP used to be an upstanding company that treated its workers well. Then the days of the little people being seen as human were over. If you wanted multi-million dollar exit packages, there had to be at least three major headlines with 'disgrace' in them somewhere. The pain for the lower ranks just kept coming, however.

The latest trick comes in with the field service personnel, specifically levels two and three. If you are canned from HP, instead of the normal severance package that they offer(ed), you get a big anti-bonus. It seems that HP decided to offer them all jobs, normally a good thing, but this time, it is a way to bend the laws to avoid severance.

What HP does is they tell you your old job is done for, and offer you another one. The level two and three folk are offered a level one job with a $6-12 an hour pay cut. Strangely enough, one mole tells us that it is the exact same work you have to do, same crap, different title. If you decide not to take the generous new job, you just quit, and they don't have to pay you a damn thing. It is Convergys and Sitel all over again.

There is this line between ethical and legal, maybe you have Hurd of it? µ