Drove 2,000 miles to get axed Day 1! N.Y. miner gets shaft upon arriving in Montana

[marmar]

from the NY Daily News:



Drove 2,000 miles to get axed Day 1! N.Y. miner gets shaft upon arriving in Montana
BY LARRY McSHANE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Friday, November 21st 2008, 3:09 PM



Sam Gallup bolted New York for a new home, a new life and a new job in Montana.

One 10-hour shift later, he was facing the same old problem: Unemployment.

The 24-year-old upstate mine worker traveled 2,000 miles to find work only to get laid off after one day on the payroll of the Stillwater Mining Co.

"It's kind of a dead-end situation," Gallup said Thursday.

"Job security? There is none. Right now, I'm in the financial situation of losing everything."

Gallup received the bad news Monday night after returning home from his first and last day of work.

Standing on the porch of a friend's house in Billings, he noticed a voice mail on his cell phone.

Seconds later, in disbelief, the recorded voice said he was out of work - again.

"I was a little upset," he said in an even tone. "The fellow that called, he apologized several times, but that was it." ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/11/20/2008-11-20_drove_2000_miles_to_get_axed_day_1_ny_mi-3.html

[Demobrat]

1. Wow. Talk about bad luck.

Maybe somebody will read the article and offer him something. He's obviously motivated and hard-working, and he sure could use a break. Thank goodness for his friend.

[NMDemDist2]

2. he should come to SE NM

our unemployment is under 2% last I checked

[Muttocracy]

3. they recruited him after he had been laid off!

In August, the St. Lawrence Zinc company in upstate New York laid off Gallup.

Stillwater recruited him and some co-workers willing to leave their homes for Montana.

"I packed up everything I owned in my car and drove out here," he said from Montana.

"Took me three days. Then I drove two hours to work, two hours home, with a 10-hour shift between."

:(

[WVRICK13]

4. I Hate Lawsuits BUT

if the company recruited these men they have a certain responsibility to restore them to their former positions, even if it is the cost of the trip and related expenses including pay for time during travel.