A friend of mine today lost his job.  Worked for the ethical supermarket, the Co-op, all very green and self righteous.  He found out because they didn’t tell him or the 90 other people that had also lost their jobs, but they sent a press release and the local TV channel ran it.  He found out because he was looking on TV text at the local news.

“ Staff to be informed later.  Letters will be on desks when they went in this morning “

Wow I bet that my friend and his work colleagues will always remember the ethicalness of that. Imagine – telling the press before telling the people! not an isolated story I am afraid as nowadays the simple things seem to have been lost in a mist of litigation as we lurch further and further towards the vast legal morass that our cousins across the pond find themselves in every day.  The primary aim these days is to get out without being sued for it; whatever happened to the old way of looking after your people? I suppose that sort of sentiment is regarded as being old fashioned but I bet the staff of that depot don’t walk the extra mile for the company in the wind down process.