Comments on: InformationWeek Covers Firing

By: jkOnTheRun

jkOnTheRun — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:41:31 +0000

Another fired blogger
Friend and fellow blogger Jeremy Wright was fired this week for blogging about stuff that happened at work.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:17:39 +0000

Ah… I was trying to figure out what kind of pager you had that could run $2000… some sort of satellite phone / GPS Blackberry / laptop product. The differential pay for being on call makes sense in that way.

Thanks for clearing that up.

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:01:11 +0000

No worries, I haven’t been really focussing on the financial aspects because they haven’t all that important yet.

When I was hired I received a 4500$ moving allowance. I had to pay it back only if I quit before my 1 year anniversary.

Which is why my resignation was for the 4th fo Feb. 2 days after my anniversary.

As far as the pager money, basically I was supposed to be on call until Feb 4. Being on call at HSC means you get a fair chunk of change. In my case it would have been about 2000$ in extra pay between now and then.

The offer for severance was purely “pay until Feb 4″, not pager. So I’m out 2K.

Hopefully that clears it up.

Again, though, this is just my understanding. Numerous calls, emails and visits have yielded a stone wall of zero information. I really don’t know what I’m going to get or how.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:51:11 +0000

I’m a bit confused on the firing and being reimbursed for moving expenses bit – I can’t think of how that would work. I’m also not entirely sure how the $2000 pager thing works – unless it’s somehow a reference to the moving expenses? It’s friday and my brain packed it in hours ago.

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