PENNSYLVANIA : Fired the Night Before Christmas
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Pink slips on Christmas Eve? That’s what as many as 100 top Allegheny County employees received, via special delivery. They were expecting to lose their jobs as part of a changeover in government, but the timing was particularly disturbing to them. “This is a Grinch-like way of treating people, as far as I’m concerned,” county solicitor Ira Weis said. Commissioner Larry Dunn said the letters were supposed to arrive later this week, but a postal foul-up brought them earlier.
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