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We primarily use the postal service for all of our shipping. We don't ship every single day and we also don't have a location that is open full time, so it's always just been easier taking the stuff to a center to ship, which ends up being maybe two to three times a week. The place I've gone for the last 8 years has been the same USPS contract counter that operates at a postal store that's right up the street, which is very handy. We ship many odd sized boxes, and I've found that going to the normal post offices is usually a giant pain, because they always falsely try to add an 'over sized' fee or something, then spend a half hour measuring each box 10 times. All of this was avoided at my contractor guys, because they knew me and they knew how my stuff works. All I had to do was write the dimensions on the box and we trusted each other.
So I go in there the other day and come to find out that a foreigner has bought the business and they instantly fired everybody in there so they can hire their relatives of the same ethnicity. There's only one guy left who has to teach the new people how to do everything, which is about impossible... None of them seem to be very bright and they can't even understand the most simple things. He thinks that as soon as they think they can do it themselves, he'll probably get fired too.
I feel really bad for these people that use to work there. It was a friendly place where they all got along and worked together for years. I'm wondering, is there any kind of chance they have some sort of discrimination case against the new owners or anything? It just doesn't seem right that people can just fire everybody at a place for no reason like that.
I always thought a company had to prove to the government they attempted to hire locals, before importing people from overseas to do their positions. (Don't you need a job to move to either the USA or Canada, from overseas anyway?)
I imagine a petty job like this could be filled easily, locally. Amazing how some of this stuff gets by..
If the new owner is a moron, they will be out of business soon, but I don't see how you can possibly say they discriminated against anyone. The guy bought a business and he has the right to fire everyone for no reason at all and bring in his own people. Happens all the time. I do not see how the USPS would see this as discrimination.
It'll take a while to train up your local post office to what you are doing. I had to do this also, as they insisted that I couldn't mail certain pieces with certain rates, etc. Best thing to do is go talk to the postmaster of the post office you will use, tell them the issue, have them realize what is the deal. They will work with you. Then just use carrier pickup. You don't have to be open every day. You schedule the pickup for which day you want it online. It's a lot easier than taking boxes somewhere.
I know it's sad when you get to know a business and they change so drastically. But there must have been a reason why the previous owner sold it.
But you're right, I'll probably start dropping our stuff at the next closest PO. They said I can do a dock drop.
Anyone employed more than three months gets rights. You can't be fired without either a proper redundancy procedure (i.e the job you do no longer exists) or proper disciplinary procedure.
This protects both the employee and the employer, not just the employer who can otherwise fire someone on a whim. There are also other ways of handling a problem with employees, and employers certainly don't have their hands completely tied, and remember that in the UK we have other laws regarding maternity, sickness etc, that are also designed to help both employee and employer in those instances.
As well as misconduct (doing something), there is negligence (not doing something), which comes in minor, major and gross varieties.
Generally Gross involves either law-breaking or something stipulated in your contract.
I would hate to work in an environment where I could walk in one day and told I no longer have a job. No reason, no explanation. What if someone has a friend fallen on hard times? Can they just sack an employee and parachute in the friend?
