Sentences with phrase «fire company as»

At 2:30 p.m., Schumer visits Niagara Engine Co. 6 to present a flag, which was flown of the U.S. Capitol, to the entire fire company as they prepare to open their new firehouse on Saturday, 114 Fort Rd., Schoharie.

In a joint statement, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia identified teacher layoffs, the child care cuts, a 29 percent cut to libraries and fire companies as their top priorities.

Not exact matches

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

In the past, when people of color were treated with indignity and disdain for simply existing, most responses from company leaders involved an approach of firing an employee, a feeble apology, and business as usual once the event faded from the headlines.

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.

As your company grows, the most important and hardest decisions will be those about who gets hired and who gets fired.

Franken: As an entrepreneur, your board is the only entity that can fire you from your own company.

While the fire has not directly damaged major oil sands production facilities, it has precipitated major disruption to the industry as companies evacuate employees.

It's not as if he and Trump have a chummy public relationship — Trump has fired tweets at Bezos, whose holding company owns the Washington Post, in retaliation for a story the Post published in December about preventing Trump from securing the presidential nomination.

Managers were traveling around the country putting out fires, which cost the company as much as $ 10,000 a month for airline tickets, hotels, and rental cars.

Ironically, five years later, the company that fired me has never rebounded from the massive decline that occurred as a result of sacking the rainmaker.

Similar disdain followed January layoff announcements from Pfizer, Walmart, Microsoft, Coca - Cola, and many less prominent employers, coalescing into an angry narrative: Greedy companies are firing workers just days after getting a historically giant tax cut that will save them billions — a tax cut that was promoted by President Trump and Republicans as a job creator.

Slywotzky's book takes readers under the hood of companies that fire on all pistons, at least as far as exciting consumers is concerned.

This exposes you to some serious risks as Ramos explains that if an employee has a history of bad behavior, a company might just jump the gun and fire him or her without probing the situation further.

Earlier this summer, the two companies announced that Kohl's would begin selling Amazon devices, such as the Echo and Fire tablets, at 10 of its stores.

I also view it as my responsibility to hold the leadership team's feet to the fire on this issue,» Huffington wrote in a company blog post after the meeting.

In messages to staff, tech companies sometimes conflate conversations employees are allowed to have, such as complaining about working conditions, with sharing trade secrets, said Chris Baker, an attorney with Baker Curtis and Schwartz, PC, who represents the fired Googler.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

In a federal court complaint, John Lockette, an African - American former wealth manager, alleged that he received negative performance reviews, was denied raises and given derisive nicknames, and was ultimately fired from Morgan Stanley in August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reports.

As part of the VR training, prospective claims adjusters visit the company's facilities near Los Angeles to inspect a model home that is damaged by water leaks or fire.

Intel CEO Brian M. Krzanich joined the company as a process engineer in 1982, but he made an error 25 years ago that almost got him fired.

As for Cambridge, its team has roots in the American debt - settlement business that has drawn so much fire — and some of its earliest employees have been linked to companies accused of legal and regulatory violations in the U.S., according to court and corporate documents obtained by Canadian Business.

Facebook took out full - page advertisements in Wednesday's issues of the New York Times and Washington Post in an effort to defend itself as the company takes fire for its role in Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Uber has fired 20 employees over harassment, discrimination and inappropriate behavior, as the ride - hailing company tries to contain the fallout from a series of toxic revelations about its workplace.

At the same time, past statements — made when progressive causes were considered (perhaps misunderstood) as being widely popular — could have customers holding a company's feet to the fire.

The lesson to learn from the examples of employee firings and how some companies have chosen to address social media is to make the policy as clear as possible.

The travel company United Continental Holdings (ual) came under fire last month when a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights, a fiasco that dragged as much as $ 90 million off the value of Buffett's stake as United stock plummeted amid the ensuing outrage.

The end of its business on May 20, which Slide Fire announced in a statement on its website, comes as the company faces litigation related to the Las Vegas attack.

The Apple TV will run games such as Galaxy On Fire, Rayman Adventures, and «even games that [had] only been available on consoles, like the new Disney Star Wars game, called Disney Infinity,» said Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice-president, Internet software and services, during the company's presentation.

Sacca, who is known for his early investments in tech companies such as Twitter and Uber, launched into an impassioned speech criticizing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, firing off a barrage of charges against Trump that were as fast, furious, and hard to fact check as those coming from the candidates themselves.

Tamar Maritz, regional director for California at marijuana data insights company BDS Analytics, said Californians could expect to see prices rise as much as 10 to 20 % in the aftermath of the fires.

• Commercial property insurance covers everything related to the loss and damage of company property due to events such as wind and hail storms, fire, smoke, civil disobedience, and vandalism.

For companies that have an especially hard time replacing staff on leave, there can be an inclination, as the Alberta survey suggested, to simply avoid hiring young women or, worse, to fire them before their maternity leave kicks in.

Whitehead continues to lead the division, even as the parent company has come under fire over its suspect relationships with specialty pharmacies.

Isabel Dos Santos, the woman listed by Forbes as Africa's first female billionaire, has been unceremoniously fired from her post as head of Angola's national oil company Sonangol, according to newswire reports.

The $ 299 device measures brain electrical activity via 16 scalp sensors, which the company claims allow recognition of basic emotions and up to 30 specific thoughts, such as «lift this object,» «fire death ray,» or «fly forward.»

The statistic, revealed by Facebook on Monday, comes as the company takes fire for the role its automated advertising platform played in spreading the online ads.

In Nigeria in 2014, Lamido Sanusi was fired as head of the central bank after trying to track down $ 20 billion that he said had been stolen from that country's state oil company, NNPC.

The company cited sexual harassment and an array of other behaviors, such as bullying and retaliation, as reasons for the firings.

(The company paid a $ 185 million fine and fired more than 5,000 employees who were found to have opened as many as 2 million unauthorized accounts for consumers.

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Earlier this year, as spring finals week loomed over college campuses nationwide, Netflix — one of the earliest companies to incorporate live - streaming video into its social media strategy — fired up a broadcast on the company's Periscope account.

Maybe he is competent and not so obnoxious as to be actually corrosive to your company culture, so you can't fire or completely avoid him.

In 2008, EMC fired Greene as CEO of VMware, causing the company's stock to drop 24 percent in one day.

Lencioni implores business owners to use their values as hiring, promoting and firing criteria: «Your goal should be that 100 percent of your people embody the one or two values that make your company truly special.»

the preservation among the Jews of «the «haggling» habit which most of the Western world has outgrown,» «the use of shoddy or poor materials,» the fact that «Jews are considered by certain leading insurance companies as a poor fire risk,» etc..

Companies that make the underlying technology for Amazon products, such as the Kindle (e-files), the Kindle Fire (touchscreens, computer chips), and the Amazon Echo (microphones for digital assistants), so they can compete with Apple's iPad and the Google Home smart speaker.

In 2015, I hope unlimited vacation policies catch fire and more CEOs think of it not as merely a benefit or perk, but as part of crafting a high performance company culture built on trust and respect.

PALO ALTO — Tesla fired hundreds of workers this week, including engineers, managers and factory workers, even as the company struggles to expand its manufacturing and product line.

When Carly Fiorina was let go from her six - year tenure as C.E.O. of Hewlett - Packard, the company's stock jumped 10 percent upon the news of her firing.