54891 - agreed that this is common practice. But isn't Navitas also responsible with how they manage their funds? There was obviously no oversight in the US which got out of hand and good people lost their jobs because of it. The layoff was not due to market change. Growth could have been conservative. Gross negligence on the part of Navitas, SAE Global and top US management could have avoided this layoff, people's livelihoods. Layoffs happen in business all the time. It's more disheartening when it's due to poor management and neglect and not a market downshift. Navitas is not desolate, they are not broke. Navitas could have at least taken responsibility with severances that were more than a week or two for most people. Yes, severance is not an obligation. And yes, this is an at will state as most states are. But at will exists to protect companies from outlandish class action lawsuits and being taken advantage of. Not for companies to, in reverse, take advantage of to save a pretty penny. What they did was not illegal. But there still is an ethical responsibility. Navitas could afford the ethical responsibility being that they were all responsible for poor management decisions.... But they chose not to
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Let's be real though: Tom was useless in his own way. The notion that he would somehow fix things is absurd. He may have brought the company to a certain degree of success, but it had started falling apart years before the Navitas acquisition. Why do you think he wanted to sell it so badly in the first place? He and Marco (along with a cast of hand-picked shady characters) made the whole thing look like a no brainer, and stupid Navitas, eager to jump into the U.S. market, freaking fell for it. Beautiful!
agreed!
Fired Deniese, Will, Jerry for being useless
What would Tom Misner had done?
It's been almost two months and this is still brewing at the campuses. No one feels safe, appreciated . Were all dispensable.
I know some people were actually recruited out of a job to come here. Sucks to be them. False pretenses? Or just unkept promises who knows.
there was an admin who just started less than a month......quit a job to come to SAE and was then laidoff.
The director of admissions in NYC was only on the job a few months.....not sure if he left a job to come SAE but he was laid off as well
there were ambassadors that didn't even make their 90days before they were let go.
Good look SAE!
We had an admin who had just started, turned down other jobs...and gone the next minute. She did more in the few weeks at SAE than I've seen most people do in a year. Layoffs can be brutal.
This is a shame. I feel bad for those who were laid off even more. This was a shitty thing to do since the company is not like bankrupt or in dire straits. You're right... Just because there's an AT Will status for a state, a company still has a choice on how they handle their layoffs. Says a lot about SAE and Navitas. I know that our HS person chose SAE over another job because of its growth potential.
Anonymous54976....there is NO loyalty when working for a For Profit school let alone most big companies. They will not be loyal with you. They will look out for no other than themselves and when its time to layoff they will do that, give you NO notice and you might get 2 weeks pay no matter how long you been with the company and no matter how good you were at your job. I'm just stating the facts I've been with for profit schools long enough and they all do it the exact same way. So work at SAE, take their money but do not give them loyalty.
I'm still nervous for the rest of us left. I'm in a unique position as well. And fairly new to SAE. After seeing what happened to other people who did a lot, it shows there's little loyalty or understanding of the needs of a US operated for profit school.
I'm nodding my head in complete agreement