Massachusetts accountant Carl Sorabella had every reason to believe that his employer would grant his request for a more flexible schedule so he could assist his wife, who had just been diagnosed with lung cancer and given only months to live. After all, he'd been with Haynes Management in Wellesley, for 13 years, and had just been given a raise in November. But instead of a more accommodating schedule, he got a pink slip in response to his request, even though he had made it clear he was willing to work nights and weekends to make up for the time he intended to spend taking his wife in for treatments and tests. Here his wife of 23 years was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer -- she had 55 nodules on her lungs--and after almost 14 years of service, his boss told him, "It's business. I'm running a company here, and I need to make sure the department runs." Sorabella assured her he would make sure the company runs, working at any hour of the day or night to make up the time he spent caring for his wife, but to no avail. Sorabella says his boss told him they were thinking about laying him off anyway, due to "modifications in workforce requirements." He thought, "you can't do that!" he told Boston's ABC affiliate. He says he later saw an employment ad for his old job with the same company. Unfortunately, Sorabella has no legal recourse. Federal and state laws that protect workers from this kind of treatment only apply only to larger companies with more than 50 employees. At the moment, Sorabella is on unemployment, and his wife is on disability. "We don't know how our bills are going to be paid. But we keep telling each other as long as we love each other -- it doesn't matter," Kathy Sorabella told the WCVB reporter.
Wow...and here I was just reading up on articles about having lifelong careers and company loyalty. This kind of stuff can make a person always keep one foot out of the door and eggs in many baskets in the event a company may do stuff like this. The man gave them 14 years of his life and this is how they treat him.
It's a sad & disturbing thing, but nothing that chickenshit assholes like his boss do to people surprises me anymore. It sounds like something my boss would do.
We're simply company numbers and they're only in it for themselves. The concept of "family" in the workplace has disintegrated.
disgraceful...sounds like this has hit their local news and now gone viral...if i was doing business with this firm...no matter how big or small i would gladly take my business somewhere else...this will bite them in the ass water finds it's own level...
That's true and they wonder why people who get fired like this show up the next day like this >>> :smt068
Its the new world order people. Fuck human beings all that matters is money. Period. We have to globally compete against nations like China and India who treat their employees like shit. Beautiful ain't it. Smdh
Good point. People like to cap themselves off with limitless money and not consider the company. But they'll skim the employees to appease their own friends.
there you go right there. protest with your dollars. you dont have to march in the streets. just pull your account and send a letter stating he is a scum bag
Rampant sickness or natural disaster. Aliens would have to take over the entire planet before the money system goes anywhere. We all completely depend on it too much.
I'd like to hope, from what I've heard and seen, that my employer is/ will be loyal. He is OLD SCHOOL. I have learned to do his dictation, and he is very precise. One of his secretaries worked for him for over a decade, and the last one for over 3 years and it was her FIRST JOB. People in the firm have daughters/ wives/ sons working for them, and bring their kids in to work... I hope to have a place there, truly, because it can be a very loyal network that I HOPE contradicts the nasty corporate environment of many modern companies... Such a shame what happened to this man... That would never happen where I work, I know that for sure.
