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Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
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Date: 
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:24:33 GMT
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Steve Bliss writes:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:56:28 GMT, "Tom McDonald"
> <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Eric Brok writes:
> > > http://www.lego.com/info/pressspecific.asp?PressReleaseId=50&Year=1999
> > 
> > What caught my attention was:
> > 
> > <quote>
> > Help with their future careers and help, if they so wish, to establish
> > themselves a business.
> > </quote>
> 
> I've got a little bit of authority to speak to this.  My employer, Amway
> Corporation, has (from the organizational side of things) some
> similarities to TLG[1].  They are family-owned, multi-national
> companies.  They have both been in a slump lately.  Amway has already
> been through a period of downsizing.
> 
> Anyway, I'm assuming the counseling and help with future careers is what
> is known as "outplacement".  They provide people to talk to the workers
> who have been canned, to try to figure out where they can go, what they
> need to do to get another job (or start a business), maybe even provide
> contact to companies who are hiring for positions that the worker may be
> qualified.  I doubt it has anything to do with forming cottage
> businesses with ties to TLG.

I find this to be very cool, if it actually works. I say this only because
probablity dictates that there is not a 100% success rate. But nonetheless if
TLG is anything like the Amway Corp., that's great.

On another tangent, wouldn't that be different: mlm lego? :)

-Tom McD.
6 wide, 12 deep...



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  Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
 
(...) Well, the outplacement stuff is standard practice when firing in Europe. I think the Unions might get upset otherwise... Jasper (28 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)

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(...) I've got a little bit of authority to speak to this. My employer, Amway Corporation, has (from the organizational side of things) some similarities to TLG[1]. They are family-owned, multi-national companies. They have both been in a slump (...) (28 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)

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