Originally Posted by Psycho Dad

I've seen this happen before too. However there is often more to it than meets the eye. For obvious reasons, the company can't come out and tell what was behind the person being let go. We have even taken employees who have gave two weeks notice and let them go that day. We paid them for the two weeks, but it was likely they were going to be trouble than they were going to be worth for those two weeks. The two weeks they got paid for nothing was as pretty good investment as far as the company was concerned because there was no damage that they could o at that point.