Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba In Winnipeg free january uitting on spot Iamb costly hate your Boss so what else is new you cant stand How he Syfu work you cant now he never says thank a Job Well of How he says Good morning to mad As hell and you wont take it All you Caff think of is pm one Day maybe tomorrow going to walk into his look him straight in the Tomcal Ittem to the and coldly announce i Art leaving immediately act fat satisfaction and what stupidity wrongful resignation quitting your lob without giving or not enough notice is the hottest thing employment Ralff shake the employer is finally getting a fair it works both my if you expect me to gite you reasonable notice when t want to fire you have to give me reasonable notice when you want to business in Law Claire Bernstein Ken Power and Gerald Guy were computer techno Cian employed by a Johns based systems engineering and Ltd froth were highly skilled and hard these qualities proved to be their a was a shoestring enough Money to hire and train the additional technicians it desperately Tojo night i o f i Jie Gina up the goo Princi pal group investors who Are suing provincial government for compensation Are looking for other investors in Saskatchewan to join the earlier this month the investors launched an accusing the government of failing to inform investors about the financial status of two principal group subsidiaries that failed in lome a spokesman for the advertise mints calling on other investors to lawsuit have with a favourable an Kemp officer based in said most of the interest seems to be coming from Saskatoon and Moose he said most of the investors who expressed an interest in joining the had than vef Ted in the principal group com Senko said Many of the investors decided to join the lawsuit after the provincial government announced it want going to compensate Sas but sea had a great survival work your employees to the make them work and dont pay them for some of this great survival strategy so Guy and together with a third basically handled All the company overtime mounted before they knew they were working an 80hour and to make a hellish life even More the company sent them All Over the for weeks at a to work on the projects of the company the travelling was wrecking the mens family life their wives and Young children lived in and the inhuman hours were making the men excellent candidates for cardiac Guy and Power got together to bemoan their they decided to form a company and leave being they consulted a lawyer on How to sue proof them and like Many clients have done before they ignored their lawyers each one tendered his effective and then walked leaving their employer High and dry scrambling to get other technicians to replace them on the clients sea sued Guy and Power for wrongful resignation won there was nothing to justify walk ing out without any notice whats Oev after its not As if the difficult conditions had suddenly they had been continuous Over a period of the men knew they were important to the they knew that their leaving would leave the company in a lurch and would Cost the company in this the Newfoundland supreme court judge kept the mens notice obligations to a Bare mini mum the number of weeks demanded by the Newfoundland la Bor standards one week for two weeks for minimum notice Guy and Power were they got away with minimum notice and Only in damages because the company had created the unsatisfactory working conditions which had caused the men to but that Doest mean that in All cases Bare minimum notice stipulated in a provinces labor Stan Dard Law will be employees should be very living out the fantasy of bouncing into your employers of face and quitting on the spot could Cost a pretty Penny residential mortgage rates As of i Tiff Able mortgage finders credit savings credit Bank of of Nova Qlson mortgage Caisse Populaire cambrian credit Panada Trust Ujj carpathia credit Central guaranty disc mortgage confederation Trust company cooperative Trust Coronet Pounsel pro blown credit Etc hrs mortgage a Fiina credit holy spirit credit Millne credit Inland investors Jlaurent Lan Bank of London life insurance Mary Allison Mage services top Treal tryst rational Bank of Worth weat credit Union peace Hills Trust planar Trust of credit Union a Rpyal Bank of Boyal igl Mai mortgage Bun life Assurance the Mutual Toronto Dominion total mortgage wog real Eltta Bond Dave of flee press i v i it 4 f ii Al Alexandruk in his Wyatt Road Plant Winnipeg printing Industry is very a colourful Type in printing by Murray Mcneill like Many firs time entre Al Alexandruk admits there were times when he wondered if hed made a big mistake in leaving a Well pay ing Job to launch his own it was 15 years ago this month that Alexandruk quit his Job As assistant supervisor of greatest life Assurance printing department to join his Tom in starting up their own printing firm prolific graphics while they have since built prolific into one of the top 10 printing firms in Alexandruk admits there was plenty of second guessing going on during those Early years when they were routinely putting in 100hour work weeks and receiving Little or no income in especially the first five Alexandruk said during an inter View earlier this in the first five years you see your friends acquiring families and and All youre doing is going to work and coming Home and going to but on the other you love it the business so much you dont want to leave he said he now realizes that he and who had been working in the City of Winnipeg account ing were pretty naive when they first started out As a woman operation in the basement of Alexandrus they thought All they had to do was hang up their sign and the customers would be beating Down their Alexandruk but its a Little tougher than he said the biggest obstacle they faced was trying to establish a Cus Tomer it was a hell of a lot tougher than we thought it would it the local printing Industry was very competitive it still is very com you need Recagni snare Meurs business spirit things happen nobody wants to Deal with you in your he youre perceived As too so in mid1975 the pair took their next big plunge and rented 300 Square feet of commercial space in a building located near the Winnipeg International they remained there for about 18 then moved to a larger premises on Portage shortly after that they hired four employees to help them and it was about then that we started to see the fruits of our Alex Andruk Over the next four years their business continued to during that period they moved twice the first time because they needed a bigger building and the second time because their property was expropriated by the City of tired of constantly mov Alexandruk said they threw caution to the wind and bought a building on King at the same time they also bought three new including a Fourcolors press something no other printing firm in the City had at that he the bold moves prompted speculation within the local Industry that they gotten in Over their Heads and would soon be broke and out of but As it turned that move was probably the biggest turning Point in our Alexandruk it enabled them to expand into the More lucrative Large press printing and to do More color although it took them about nine months to establish a Good track record As a Large press printing Alexandruk said once they did that they were Able to Start Landing the More lucrative advertising Agency contracts and larger color printing within two years their business had grown to the Point where they had to add another Square feet onto their King Street and about years ago they made their final move to their present premises on Wyatt its a Little tougher than that now the firm boasts a staff of about 70 and last year it rang up sales in excess of but while there pleased with the Way things have gone for their Compa Alexandruk and Wilton have no intentions of standing the pair recently invested More than million in a stat of six color press that also includes a new coating machine which provides a full acrylic water base Alex Andruk said the new coating is sup posted to add a standout brilliance to printed its almost like a High gloss he its environmentally he said prolific will be one of Only two printing plants in All of North America with a six color and that he and Wilton Are confident the investment will quickly pay for it will open up some new markets for weve already been getting Calls from across weve had some interest from Saskatchewan and Home interest from As far away As he also noted that with the new coating the company will be Able to use less expensive paper Stock without sacrificing that should mean savings for both prolific and its Al though the proof will be in the he As it will probably mean hiring a few More printers and bin Dery workers to handle the extra work that should come rolling Alexandruk said while the new press and Coater it should be delivered and operational within a month will give prolific an Edge Over its local he real izes that probably wont last for now almost everybody is look ing for a Coater in this some sucker will come out with a seven color he that a for sure so while he has no regrets now about taking that big Gamble 15 years Alexandruk says he understands now Why others might be reluctant to do but if i had any advice to give to it would be that if they really believe in it and Are pre pared to work like theres no to Opportunity is he and there Are two other pieces of advice hed give to anyone getting into the printing business offer As wide a Range of services As Possi ble and stay Loyal to your Early our strength is in the fact were As diversified As we plus 1 dont think you Ever want to forget the people that helped get you Ive got people that did business with me in my basement who Are still doing business with Winnipeg free press do you need a for Trade a loj Bot display sets up in less 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