Back pages of Financial Mail also wrote
"Not a care in the world as axe falls"
Only a few weeks ago, the company backed down in a dispute with 5 former directors of the travl agent Going Places who were given the boot in march. The holiday firm decided to pay them off to avoid a potentially embarrassing court case. One might have thought that the companys legal eagles would have used that experience to ram into the directors heads the notion that ham-fisted redundancies are ju-ju.
But bo, not a bit of it.
A fortnight back, most of the training dept
was summoned to a Manchester Hotel. They should have feared the worst when the Airtours retail managing director, hero of the going places 5 affair, walked into the room. True to form the Director simply read out a blunt statement to the unsuspecting gathering, telling them that they were being made redundant immediately.
There was also another case of "look guys we've got a problem.There's 3 of you and only 1 job so you decide who's staying.And with that the caring manager walked out of the room....
