At Vestas, follow the colored line to your pink slip
It may be just a matter of time before Portland employees of the Danish wind energy equipment manufacturer are faced with this drill.
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Comments (8)
How whacked is THAT? Pretty twisted HR parlor game. Seems like a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Posted by Mojo | August 14, 2012 5:56 PM
How very orderly and strange.
Posted by Jo | August 14, 2012 6:34 PM
Color codes indicate whether you were laid off for being too old, too foreign, too female, too black, too highly paid, etc.
Posted by reader | August 14, 2012 8:17 PM
That is just awful. And stupid. 15% of males are colour blind. Vestas has been given a little time by lenders, but I doubt they will avoid bankruptcy.
Posted by Robert | August 14, 2012 8:43 PM
15%? That high? I know I have trouble with black and purple if the lights are dim at all, but I've only met one other person with color issues.
Posted by Jo | August 15, 2012 12:14 AM
These mass layoffs are tough, I remember Intel 25 yrs ago going thru this and it was Lady or the Tiger. THere were three rooms and three people - One got cut and then the security guy would stand by while they emptied their desk.
However, on the bright side, Gerding-Edlen will have a nice building with $10M of tenant improvements for free - Courtesy of taxpayers.
Posted by Steve | August 15, 2012 7:21 AM
15%? That high? I know I have trouble with black and purple if the lights are dim at all, but I've only met one other person with color issues.
I don't know if the percentage is right or not, but I've known a lot of red/green colorblind folks over the years. Once, as a joke, I set an orange and a green tennis ball on a friend's lawn - and he didn't realize they were there.
It would have been interesting to paint somebody red and have them lay down out there...
Posted by Max | August 15, 2012 11:38 AM
Jo, maybe Jack will put up a survey asking how many of his male readers are color blind. I'm a yes.
Before you ask, the green light is white, the yellow light is yellow and the red light is off.
Posted by John | August 15, 2012 7:30 PM