From: Nico Ghilardi < >
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:24:57 -0700
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Dear Anonymous,

I can not offer to you much more than my compassion and the suggestion to count
your losses and find a new job as soon as possible. To haggle over a few thousand
dollars moving costs might be a long drawn-out fight, and lawyer costs might
exceed the actual cost of the moving. However, as far as I know, you could take
the issue to small claims court, where you do not need a lawyer but rather
represent yourself. Even though I haven't been there personally, people tell me
that this is a fast and easy way to get small issues resolved, and I do think you
have a good case.

In anyway, I am very sympathetic to your situation and wish you all the best. Good
luck with finding a new job, which is not hampered by any visa trouble anymore, as
since last September, H1-Bs can be transferred very easily.

cheers
Nico

Claudio Fleiner wrote:

> Dear Swiss-listers,
>
> Yesterday somebody tried to post a message anonymously to the Swiss-List.
> Unfortunately, this is not possible. Because of the urgency, we decided to post
> the message anyway, so here it is. We assume that the poster is either
> subscribed to the list or reads the online archive, but we hope that the
> anonymous poster opens a free email account on e.g. Yahoo, hotmail, gmx.net or
> similar and posts the message again. This will also allow people to answer
> privately to this delicate issue. So for now, do not send your answers to me,
> as I could not forward them anyway and would have to delete them, but instead
> post to the Swiss-List.
>
> Greetings, Claudio Fleiner <claudio_at_fleiner.com>
>
> -------------------------FORWARDED EMAIL------------------------------------
> From: prefer to stay anonymous
> To: swiss-list_at_swiss-list.com
> Subject: Need help
>
> Dear all,
>
> I recently moved to San Diego with my family (we have 2 infants) and I find
> my-self in a very critical position. The company that hired me does not respect
> any of the contractual agreements that we had. I find myself shifted from an
> R&D position to taking care of the instruments. The CEO, Chief operating
> officer and President of R&D have extremely controvertial speech concerning the
> R&D in my field, and mostlikely they will drop it. I can't have any statement
> (written is not even thinkable) concerning whath they want ot do with me, what
> are the project I should work on. I started on some projects but they were
> taken away from me. I don't understand why they hired me to put in such a
> situation, I don't see what they can gain from putting me in such situation.
>
> I learned today that they haven't paid the transport of our furniture from
> Switzerland to the US, and it seems that the CEO is not intending to pay even
> if that was stated in my contract. I had to fight the have this paid by the
> company and I would have refused the offer if they had not promissed it. So at
> the time I signed the offer, we (the CEO and I) agreed that I hand-written add
> it on the offer, is this leagle.
>
> Do you think I should look for a layer (looking for a new job that's for sure).
> It only took 40 days to get to that point! I would appreciate any good advice.
>
> Thank you ahead,
>
> please understand that I keep this e-mail anonymous.
>
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Nico Ghilardi, Ph.D.
Molecular Oncology Department
Genentech, Inc.
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