Redundancy - Leaving card or not?

[YZF600R]

At loggerheads with this one in the company, do you get a leaving card for someone who has been informed they will be made redundant (at the end of next week)?

Half the office suggests yes, as the person involved has been a valued member of the team so it is no difference if they have decided to leave themselves.

The other half suggests that it is not the right thing to do for the company to send a "Sorry you're leaving" card, when it is the choice of the company that they are leaving!

(The company is small and therefore the senior managers who decided the redundancy would also be signing the card.)

[Fidgits]

surely it depends on whether you actually like the person or not?

[B3Svert]

Maybe more of a "Thank you" card for their contributions and hard work rather than a "Sorry you're leaving"

Also depends on the payout, if they've got a massive redundancy payment then they probably won't give a st what it says on the card.

[BoRED S2upid]

Tricky one that, rubbing salt in the wound? Maybe a simple collection and a sorry your leaving note? if its a woman some flowers and a note in the card.

[V8mate]

There is no shame with redundancy - the company has simply discontinued a role.

I think that the senior manager responsible for the redundancy should not sign the card, as the person receiving may like to keep it as a memento of the people they enjoyed working with. But, the senior manager responsible SHOULD take some time, on the person's last day, to chat to them privately, assure them of support in finding new work, references etc, ask if there is anything they can do to help (and mean it!). Depending on the seniority of the person leaving, this could extend to lunch together.

[stackmonkey]

A card is generally from the people who work for a company, not from the company itself. Lack of a card would indicate that the staff they worked with couldn't give a st about them, no matter what the company 'officially' says.

[Firefoot]

As has been suggested, you don't have to get a card that says "sorry you are leaving". A simple good luck card would suffice, or a plain picture one with no message and the staff can just put their own messages inside.

[shadowninja]

I had one and a gift. Thought it was a nice gesture.














The fkers.

[missliv]

From the people of the office, yes. From the company, no - it's in poor taste.

[shadowninja]

Make your own card?

[308mate]

Dont know. I sign every card that comes round "Congratulations on your new baby", regardless. If I dont know or like them and someone insists on shoving a card and envelope full of change under my nose, they get a childish message and lose some of their change.

Its a policy of mine.

[Vesuvius 996]

[308mate]

Vesuvius 996 said:

[Vesuvius 996]

308mate said:

Dont know. I sign every card that comes round "Congratulations on your new baby", regardless. If I dont know or like them and someone insists on shoving a card and envelope full of change under my nose, they get a childish message and lose some of their change.

Its a policy of mine.

There was once this utter c''t of a woman who worked ay my law firm. She was beyond contempt.

She got up the duff by a rich partner and then left to live a life as a lazy stay at home Mum.

A card came round in an envelope stuffed with cash contributions from the staff.



My girlfriend and I very much enjoyed the meal and bottle of Pomerol she bought us.

Edited by Vesuvius 996 on Wednesday 6th August 13:20

[sleep envy]

Vesuvius 996 said:

A card came round with a leaving card in an envelope stuffed with cash contributions from the staff.



My girlfriend and I very much enjoyed the meal and bottle of Pomerol she bought us.

am I understanding that correctly?

[Vesuvius 996]

sleep envy said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

A card came round with a leaving card in an envelope stuffed with cash contributions from the staff.



My girlfriend and I very much enjoyed the meal and bottle of Pomerol she bought us.

am I understanding that correctly?

Oh come off it.

I didn't REALLY!

[Justayellowbadge]

sleep envy said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

A card came round with a leaving card in an envelope stuffed with cash contributions from the staff.



My girlfriend and I very much enjoyed the meal and bottle of Pomerol she bought us.

am I understanding that correctly?

Shocking to believe such a thing would be done by a member of the legal profession, is it not?

[Vesuvius 996]

Look, for the avoidance of doubt, that was a joke, folks.

Not even I sink that low.

[308mate]

sleep envy said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

A card came round with a leaving card in an envelope stuffed with cash contributions from the staff.



My girlfriend and I very much enjoyed the meal and bottle of Pomerol she bought us.

am I understanding that correctly?

Im disgusted at what's being implied here also. May I be among the first to condemn it.

Edited by 308mate on Wednesday 6th August 13:24

[merc_man]

Vesuvius 996 said:

sleep envy said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

A card came round with a leaving card in an envelope stuffed with cash contributions from the staff.



My girlfriend and I very much enjoyed the meal and bottle of Pomerol she bought us.

am I understanding that correctly?

Oh come off it.

I didn't REALLY!

Yep, the Pomerol wasn't that good was it.