A job offer gone wrong

Wow, I guess if this scam doesn't work, he can always go to a Wild game and harass a player until he gets assaulted.

Really wrote:

Wow, I guess if this scam doesn't work, he can always go to a Wild game and harass a player until he gets assaulted.

"Really," don't be jelous :)

It is really hard to feel sorry for a foreigner that loses a job in the US. Now he feels what I feel losing a job from outsourcing to India

Having had worked at that particular site, it's a beautiful building, but the illusion of contentment is fleeting..........Good luck with the lawsuit, I hope you win!

This type of situation has happened more often than not ...(Jack Welch was notorious for this crap)... I hope this man wins, and wins big! Decency has lost it face and soul in corporate America.

According to Moore's Law, the capacity of a chip, transistor or other microtechnology and nanotechnology doubles every 18 months. Technology changes that fast, but I would hardly think this man's skills would be completely obsolete. Shame on Seagate for misleading this man.

As for you, Displaced Programmer: When American college students opt for science and tech programs rather than the perceived "easy" majors in business, we might get a homegrown workforce. That said, how do you know this man is a "foreigner?" Simply because of his name? You know what it means to "assume." My name is quite common in several European countries...do you assume I am a foreigner, too?

Go get 'em! Big business needs to learn a lesson about misleading people. This kind of crap goes on all too often with no consequences. Good luck.

While I can understand this guy feels mislead, and perhaps that was the case, he is still the one responsible for his career, not the company. There are thousands upon thousands of good, hard-working folks out there who are finding themselves mislead, misplaced, outsourced or out of business. I've been self-employed more than 10 years since leaving the corporate world but I'm not pulling lawsuits just because the economy is drastically changing. Instead, I continue to re-invent myself to keep food on the table. It irks me that this entitlement society is getting stronger by the day. First it was the Gen-X kids and now it's become those who should really know better: the middle class. This guy obviously knows he needs to reinvent himself with a new career path and I applaud him for that. However, is spending time and money to sue a former employer really going to get you somewhere? How do you explain that to your kids?
Grow a pair and buck up like the rest of us who don't get a severance package when the economy changes. Instead, we get realistic and move forward without whining and expecting the rest of society to feed our children and our ego.

Something doesn't add up here. First off, in a world of employment hurt, why is the PP spotlighting this particular man and his problems? I'd really like to know? Is it random? Did the attorney or the aggrieved seek out the publicity? What is really going on?

Then, who is the "bad guy"? Is it the employer? The employee? I don't trust any of this, and I wonder why it got such a splashy spread.

As to the settlement and the lost salary, I can only say that if I had half his money, I'd throw all mine away.

If this guy has a legitimate case, then I hope he wins. What bothers me are the comments in here like "big business needs to learn a lesson." Are you kidding me? This whole political movement to deamonize big business and the wealthy is just silly.

The company may have planned on heading in the direction stated. The economy took a tumble. The direction got side-tracked. WAAAAAAH you stole my kickball. Grow up! It's the real world - Chit Happens!

So Chandramouli Vaidyanathan is suing for $2.7 million? Wow, that's like $100,000 for every letter in his name.

What is the difference if there was a job or not ? He quit steady work when things were bad ( and it really is Bush who made it bad )...The Econ hit a low and he was out of work, could have happened even if he had been doing the work and job title he thought he was hired for.
As for the private business, if there is a history of them doing this to employees or former employees then they too are at fault.

If the worker got UC, then our system served him. If company is wrong fine them.

Heidi wrote:

According to Moore's Law, the capacity of a chip, transistor or other microtechnology and nanotechnology doubles every 18 months. Technology changes that fast, but I would hardly think this man's skills would be completely obsolete. Shame on Seagate for misleading this man.
As for you, Displaced Programmer: When American college students opt for science and tech programs rather than the perceived "easy" majors in business, we might get a homegrown workforce. That said, how do you know this man is a "foreigner?" Simply because of his name? You know what it means to "assume." My name is quite common in several European countries...do you assume I am a foreigner, too?

Ja, Heidi du bist eine Landsmench. Wo konnen wir treffen weider ? Tschuss

Feel sorry for this guy, have had this happen to me on 2 occasions. I was fortunate I lived locally and the recession wasn't as bad. I got hired by a guy that got fired and I showed up for work to find I didn't have a job at all, even though I had a written offer, been through several interviews, with others in the company.

I also interviewed and got a job before graduating from college and had a start date. I stopped looking for a job and felt great I'd secured one before others in my class. When I showed up the guy hiring me said, gee he really should have called to let me know they decided not to fill the position after all. I hope this lawsuit sends a message to companies that they can't do this to people. It's your livelyhood and it has real cost and implications for people when your job evaporates.

This fellow deserves every dime he is asking for. What Seagate did was fraudulent.

displacedProgrammer wrote:

It is really hard to feel sorry for a foreigner that loses a job in the US. Now he feels what I feel losing a job from outsourcing to India

It is really hard to figure out what you meant by foreigner? Did I miss something in the article? If you lost your job, it was likely because of your attitude.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You rolled the dice and they came up snake eyes. You did the next best thing: Sue someone

beeecause wrote:

Too bad haji, you took the risk for "greener pastures", should have stayed at TI.

thats right, its called greed.
this man already was makeing over $100 thousand dollars plus all the benfits and now he is crying for getting laid off, go apply for unemployment, thats what american workers do when we get laid off.

nutsto wrote:

This fellow deserves every dime he is asking for. What Seagate did was fraudulent.

dam boy! are you a foreigner, its called getting "laid off" it happens all the time even to americans that have worked for decades, now go apply for unemployment.