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| toothbrush |
on Thu 12 Mar 09, 8:12 PM to toothbrush's blog.
horrid ...
I was instructed to make redundancies a few weeks ago and made the selections today, I break the news tomorrow.
The process started 28 days ago, that's when I went from "friend" to "boss" ... and people started avoiding eye contact.
We are all informed, but who consents?
Edited Fri 13 Mar 09, 12:15 AM by toothbrush
| 12 Mar 09, 8:35 PM SirLashleyS UK(S), 5 yrs |
I too have been placed in that awful position. Suspend or dismiss a valued work-colleague, because those above you do not have the balls to 'do the dirty' themselves. This week I'm reduced to a 'three-day week'. Shafted (figuratively, of course) by feckless employer's compliant hatchet-man, while the incompetent tosser himself is away on his jet-set ski-resort winter break in the Austrian Alps...
The silky-smooth soothing voice of reason and logic. (You WILL feel much better and speak far more sense while you're very securely tied-up...) Edited 12 Mar 09, 9:00 PM by SirLashleyS | |
| 12 Mar 09, 9:04 PM bighugs UK(LE), 8 yrs |
Such decisions are never easy. How do you choose ? Bighugs... | |
| 13 Mar 09, 12:17 AM toothbrush UK(LS), 3 yrs |
No shafting going on here, its the right choice, less work in, so less staff needed. Knowing it is right doesn't make it easier. | |
| 13 Mar 09, 6:57 PM Butterscotch UK(RM), 3 yrs |
so how did it go? was it as bad as you expected? | |
| 13 Mar 09, 9:59 PM toothbrush UK(LS), 3 yrs |
Very odd. The only tears were from people with good news . One person leaving said "I think its the right thing". Another leaver was more concerened about how our smaller team would cope with the workload. One leaver asked if he could hang onto his laptop so he can finish some work over the weekend. I'm really proud of all of them, and I hope I did my best. |
