The Inside Job

Ad Association CEO: Laid Off Employee Sent Hoax E-mail

By Liz Wolgemuth

Posted: January 16, 2009

At first it appeared yesterday that Jeff Haley, CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau, had sent an E-mail to the association's employees indicating that three executives had been laid off because of their inflated salaries, "'particularly when those individuals have added so little value to this organization,'" the E-mail stated, according to Advertising Age.

But Haley told AdAge he didn't write the E-mail, noting instead that it had been sent a couple of hours after the association had laid off five employees and he thought it was likely created by one of them.

RAB expects to seek "legal remedies," Mediaweek reports.

I'm not even going to write a "what not to do after you've been laid off" post. Whether true or not...it's worth saying that losing a job is hard enough--getting sued (or prosecuted) is totally unnecessary.

komdoms

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peter @ Feb 13, 2009 06:38:13 AM

layoffs

That place is so bare bones as it is, I can't believe they lay anyone off at all.

Eric of TX @ Jan 20, 2009 16:43:27 PM

You show them Jeff. Lay 'em off then sue them. It's the American way. BTW, Jeff, if I ever meet you I will happily beat your eyeballs out of your worthless head! I wish you and yours the absolute worst.

Ken of GA @ Jan 19, 2009 20:49:04 PM

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