O U T R A G E O U S
You say you have to lay people off. That’s terrible, and you look awful. You're really getting yourself worked up about it, huh?
It’s never easy to ruin someone’s life, is it?
Don’t look at me like that! You just stood here for an hour,
and told me your sob story, then you stood here for another hour, and told two
other managers about it. You stood here talking, and the guy you’re about to
lay off is actually doing work. In the time it took you to stand here and bitch,
I could have paid that guy for three hours of work. Maybe we should lay you
off? Maybe we should take your pay check?
The hypocrisy is staggering. You stand here with your fake
sadness. That puppy dog look. Meanwhile there is some guy working his ass off
in the heat that is about to be told to gather his things, because today is his
last day.
You come up to me, you tell me about your troubles. You tell
me how this affects the departments. How it has put you in a terrible mood. How
if we keep firing people, we can never train them right. Everything you say is
about the bottom line, and in the same breath you curse the bottom line as if
it has nothing to do with you.
What about them? What about their lives? What does this do
to the morale of our employees to see people culled like cattle? What does it
do to a family to hear their breadwinner was laid off?
But yeah, I hope you survive this terrible crisis. Now go do
your fucking job.
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