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How can the Board turn a blind eye to the gross overspend of expenses?? Agree with previous post, we need to let all hard working participants know that their retirement savings are being spent, NOT on new investment products but on #BLM only causes...
no investment is being made into the employees -- the BRGs and GUILDS are platforms for EC members to self-promote their Brand (insta famous)....
I believe the engineers today are educated with the most current information and technology.
What we need is a more diverse group of engineers to really move us beyond our competition!
He should buy a new mortgage every month for the #blm families since he’s so eke now.
This is EXACLTY what K&E is an expert in doing and does on repeat: Sham processes so that it doesn’t make any headlines when it lay-offs off people!
And we’re supposed to believe the statements published by the firm about #BLM and taking the moral high ground, when at the first opportunity they fired a longtime admin. assistant at the firm just after returning to work after undergoing a serious surgery.
Isn’t Kirkland that firm that’s supposed to be making so much money that it can’t stop flashing it around?
Thankfully, one person decided it was enough.
Sadly for so many, Kirkland does this to so many people who are unable to take action because it would jeopardise their careers.
“...Perkins says that despite these consistently good job reviews after returning to work following brain surgery, she was rushed through a “sham process” of reapplying for her job that resulted in several 55+ employees being laid off....”
Step 2 in Kirkland’s strategy after firing people is the following - a Kirkland textbook case wrongful firing and cover up - :
“.....The complaint further alleges that at the same time Perkins was being let go from the firm, it was “advertising on its website that it needed candidates for ‘new positions’ with the Firm with job descriptions that were nearly identical to the job description for Ms. Perkins’ position with the Firm. ....”
This is Kirkland’s way of trying to mislead the market about its practices.
So Jon A. Ballis, Chairman, Global Management Executive Committee of Kirkland & Ellis has sent an email out to the firm decrying the “disgust and outrage” he feels for the mistreatment of George Floyd. He also mentions the “fear, anxiety and distress” faced by minorities.
Whilst working to promote the causes upheld by the #BLM campaign and promoting social justice and equality are very noble causes, the e-mail coming from Jon Ballis, and Kirkland more broadly, could not be more hypocritical and dishonest. Just shows how low this firm will go.
In writing the letter, Jon Ballis is very accurately describing the culture and abuse that people at Kirkland & Ellis face on a daily basis coming from management, partners and many others at the firm. The culture of “fear, anxiety and distress” are those very same feelings that this firm encourages and promotes within its ranks in order to improve its financials. Jon Ballis and many others would do well to look themselves in the mirror and feel the disgust and outrage as a result of the hardship they inflict on so many people working at Kirkland & Ellis.
Fear, anxiety and distress are the three “qualities” that best describe the culture at Kirkland & Ellis and are actively upheld and promoted within the firm and that ultimately lead to laying off a significant amount of people.
Kirkland & Ellis is in absolutely no position to preach about disgust and outrage when it has laid off so many people by stealth layoffs before, during and will continue to do so after the pandemic and is in the process of axing so many others.
On Thursday, June 11, at 12 noon, we will take a stand against racism. We will stop working for 8 Minutes and 46 seconds.
We are asking Wireless Workers, even those not yet members of CWA, to join with our members to stop and reflect for 8 minutes and 46 seconds—to remember the length of time the Minneapolis police officer had his knee on George Floyd’s neck.
Obviously, many of us work under different circumstances. Many are still working at home. We urge you to observe the 8:46 in whatever way works best for you.
I think Wireless should challenge Verizon on their hollow platitudes about #BLM and take 8 minutes and 46 seconds of their time to show how unified we are.
fire all the white people and keep the blacks only that will fix everything. #BLM