The NEW Networking Networking: You may call it contact-development, relationship-building or career investment. Certainly it touches on all those things - and if you're doing it, you know it can eat up time, which few of us have to spare.
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'At-will' worker has rights, too DEAR CARRIE: I was a senior business executive with a Fortune 30 company. I ranked among the top 100 salespeople out of 55,000, despite being there for just 20 months. Because things were going so well for me, I turned down four job offers in 2004. Then, early this year a new vice president joined the department. He wanted me to move to the company's office in the Midwest. I agreed and had begun planning to relocate with my family. But a month later, when my family and I were in the throes of planning for our big move, he called me in and fired me. His about-face has caused my family and me tremendous emotional turmoil. I'm also angry that after bringing millions of dollars to this company, I was just tossed aside like an old shoe. Four weeks' severance doesn't even soften the blow because he revoked all my stock grants. What are my rights?
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