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Early Retirement - is this a normal approach?

As a result of the reduction of money budgeted for department areas, we are forced to cut down on our number of personnel.

Under this plan, older employees will be asked to take early retirement, thus permitting the retention of younger people who represent our future. Therefore, a program to phase out older personnel by the end of the current fiscal year, via retirement, will be placed into effect immediately.

This program will be known as SLAP. (Sever Late-Age Personnel). Employees who are SLAPPED will be given the opportunity to look for jobs outside the company. SLAPPED employees can request a review of their employment records before actual retirement takes place. This review phase of the program is called SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early Workers).

All employees who have been SLAPPED and SCREWED may file an appeal with upper management. This appeal is called SHAFT (Study by Higher Authority Following Termination). Under the terms of the new policy, an employee may be SLAPPED once, SCREWED twice, but may be SHAFTED as many times as the company deems appropriate.

If an employee follows the above procedure, he/she will be entitled to get HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel's Early Severance) or CLAP (Combined Lump-sum Assistance Payment). As HERPES and CLAP are considered benefit plans, an employee who has received HERPES or CLAP will no longer be SLAPPED or SCREWED by the company.

Comments

  • mariefab
    mariefab Posts: 320 Forumite
    Priceless!
  • Judas
    Judas Posts: 325 Forumite
    No doubt written by an over 50 middle management time during working hours who will then be amazed when their equal colleague in their 20/30's is promoted over them; that being the same person who is doing more work rather than writing "humourous" blogs.
  • Googlewhacker
    Googlewhacker Posts: 3,887 Forumite
    very good but most likely written by a 50 plus year old who got looked over for a promotion :)
    The Googlewhacker referance is to Dave Gorman and not to my opinion of the search engine!

    If I give you advice it is only a view and always always take professional advice before acting!!!

    4 people on the ignore list....Bliss!
  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Can we apply for this slap

    i want to be slapped but my company wont slap me because it would cost too much to slap my redundancy money in my hand.

    sigh............
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
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