Jet airways has let go of 1500 employees. Due to the wonderful manner in which they were let go, they all grouped up and begin to plead for political intervention. Quite rightly they appealed to the politicians for help. Their case, regrettably, does not seem to have any legal standing. They were employees under probation and therefore their contracts allow Jet to fire them if and when it pleases. Nobody forced them to sign the contract. They did it of their own free will. I have little problem with the fact that they were let go, the company has a right to let go of employees. What’s disturbing is the manner in which they were told to quit. Apparently they came to know about their new status while they were waiting for the company bus in the morning. Is Jet in so much trouble that their HR department did not even bother to do the courtesy of meeting people face to face? If they are so short of funds then how do they keep the planes in the air? Running planes must be expensive business, and they must be paying a lot of people a lot of money to figure out the future 6 monthly expense cost. Its difficult to believe that some genius in the company woke up one morning and said ’hey we need to fire all these people today, and I mean TODAY!!’. Flooding the job market with 1500 applicants overnight shows negligence and bad planning. Its not something you expect from an airline.

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