Hello, I just want to share a small event that happened to a few of my fellow coworkers very suddenly, I hope this stirs up as much disappointment and anger as it did for me. This is a story that involves a company that serves mostly poor and the disadvantaged people within the nation.
So, earlier in May, the local managers were being told to start “cleaning out the station” by upper management in the headquarters location. So they started to dispose of everything, but about a week and a half in; they were told to shred financial statements, which rang alarm bells within the local management that the office's closure was upon them, things were being taken out quickly: signage, chairs, tables, lockers, computers, the local personal gas pumps… The local management were directed by regional and HR that they were not allowed to tell the employees until the last day. Imagine the surprise the employees had that at 2pm May 31st that they will not have to report after today even though the scheduler had scheduled the staff throughout the week. They found out that they were out of a job literally at the beginning of what they didn't know was the final shift. They tried to see if it was even legal for the company to do this; apparently they were well within their right to do this to them, because the location had so few amount of employees.
What had happened next was the people who stopped by now shuttered location were greeted by a paper telling them to go to this new location in English only (No Spanish paper of sign to be seen) they didn't know how to get to this new location; a QR code on the paper got them going to Google Maps to transport them to the new location., on top of the fact that they were still being told to go to the former location on some papers printed before the closure.
Our other branch utilizes the shuttered location a lot prior to the closure. They had a lot of necessities that they needed. They were in the dark right up to nearly the same hour as the employees. The subsequent day, because of no employees, they had to take care of their own vehicles, their own toilets (which they didn't even have the proper equipment to clean them properly), finding the new locations on their own, etc. The company is now paying $700 per vehicle for gas (which only covers a round trip and 100 additional miles).
Another company severed their contract with us because of the major station closures. We're so worried, we may be next.