OTHER STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON, SOON AFTER I STARTED LEGAL ACTION
OTHER GOINGS-ON – 3
OG3-1. Further, as a stated previously, I had many interviews for jobs between losing my job at SNC in July 1982 and June 1983, and spent over Can. $2,000 on professional advice in preparing a 35-page curriculum vitae, in order to improve my chances. Geoffrey Lalonde - financial and employment consultant, and author of a book - 4 Minutes To The Job You Want – knows all about it. For me, his method of approach back then produced results, in the form of about 30 interviews; the real problem was the intrusion of extraneous idiot factors such as failure of projects to get off the ground.
OG3-2. In 1982 a new insurance scheme – the Career Guard layoff insurance plan operated by Gestas Inc. became available to some people - but not to engineers who had been with their employers for less than 5 years. The company stopped accepting any applications from any engineers at all in the spring of 1982 due to the rash of layoffs which started about that time. Thus, I could never have obtained any protection under this scheme.
Globe and Mail newspaper article - CLICK HERE
I TOLD SNC WHAT I’D FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS – OF
COURSE, THEY IGNORED IT.
I understood at the time (June 1983) from Gestas Inc s Mr. H. Lorriman - National Product Manager for
the Career Guard plan - that they were working on a scheme to cater for new
arrivals in Canada who come with one or more offers of jobs, which was planned
to be available at about the end of 1983.
June 3 1983 Report para. 50 HERE
DOUBLE
TALK, DOUBLE THINK, DOUBLE STANDARDS AND LIES – JUST LIKE IN GEORGE ORWELL S NOVEL - NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR
OG3-3. Also, at least one other person in SNC - my former immediate boss, Mr. A. Rudzinski - was prepared to give me a reference. Mr. Rudzinski, among other things, has lectured in process design for chemical plants at McGill University. Exhibit (30). I am still in touch with him now, in 2006. June 3 1983 Report para. 51 HERE
Reference from Mr. Rudzinski - CLICK HERE
OG3-4. Finally, as far as I am concerned, SNC s conduct in this matter also broke the Code of Consulting Engineering Practice of their own industrial association, the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada (A.C.E.C.). Exhibit (31).
Of course, some of the past-Presidents of SNC, then and now, were Presidents of the A.C.E.C.
June 3 1983 Report para. 52 HERE
Extracts from 1981 A.C.E.C. Directory - CLICK HERE
GOOD GRIEF. THE PLOT THICKENS - MORE. SHOULD THIS NOW SURPRISE US?
For the above reasons, I was forced to sue SNC
for illegal dismissal, starting with the letter from lawyer I.S. Mass in December 1982 The subsequent legal actions
dragged on for over 8 years.