Layoffs
A half-dozen people at my company got laid off this week. Most are at our farther-flung branches.
One, in particular, I feel bad about because she had a great attitude and was always there if you needed her.
But on the other end of the spectrum was "Lee," who's in her early 60s, a grandmother, and worked for one of the companies that we took over in the last several years. We've all met people like Lee -- she's been doing things a particular way forever, and has nothing but resentment for these "intruders" who come in, change "her" computer system around and impose all these terrible icky rules on her.
The type of person who thinks seniority makes her "fire-proof."
Well, unless she's spent her many, many vacation days this year out on the job-search trail, she's going to have a blue Christmas. I don't like to see anyone miserable, but I suspect she is the ONLY person in our company who never saw this coming. You look up passive-aggressive in the dictionary, and you'd find a picture of Lee.
I hope she finds another source of income soon and perhaps learns something from this experience.
One, in particular, I feel bad about because she had a great attitude and was always there if you needed her.
But on the other end of the spectrum was "Lee," who's in her early 60s, a grandmother, and worked for one of the companies that we took over in the last several years. We've all met people like Lee -- she's been doing things a particular way forever, and has nothing but resentment for these "intruders" who come in, change "her" computer system around and impose all these terrible icky rules on her.
The type of person who thinks seniority makes her "fire-proof."
Well, unless she's spent her many, many vacation days this year out on the job-search trail, she's going to have a blue Christmas. I don't like to see anyone miserable, but I suspect she is the ONLY person in our company who never saw this coming. You look up passive-aggressive in the dictionary, and you'd find a picture of Lee.
I hope she finds another source of income soon and perhaps learns something from this experience.