Mass. Is In Good Hands...

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I say this because their governor knows how to kick butt.

BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday that he has instructed state employees to stop doing business with Hyatt hotels until it rehires 100 housekeepers it fired last month.

Hyatt Hotel Corp., citing declining revenues, laid off the Boston-area housekeepers and replaced them with lower-paid workers from a Georgia company.

In a letter to Hyatt, Patrick criticized the layoffs, citing reports that fired workers trained their replacements after being told they were vacation fill-ins.

He urged Hyatt to work with staffers, rather "than tossing them out unceremoniously."

Hyatt, in a statement, said that like many other businesses it has been forced to make difficult staffing decisions. The company said it offered the laid-off workers severance, counseling, retraining and health coverage to year's end.

Like I said: certified butt-kicker. But, seriously? Hyatt had these guys train their replacements? That's cold.

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daveawayfromhome said…
That's becoming standard practice. My mother-in-law, who works in accounting for a large chain store, has been training her Indian replacement, and is in fact going to India next month to do it. If she wasnt of retirement age, she'd probably be pretty pissed. My father-in-law, who isnt planning to retire, had a company he did freelance work for tell him to train his (also Indian) replacement, and he told them "no", that the replacement could watch, but that if he didnt already know how to do the job my father-in-law wasnt about to give him the knowledge.
That's just the two stories I can remember details of. I've heard others.
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