I’ve been on both sides of the redundancy coin and its an awful bloody process. Bad news should be delivered with empathy and honesty. I cannot believe the patronising scripted bullshit that is churned out from HR departments en masse.
Such as this gem: apparently Yahoo isn’t firing people — it’s getting fit. And it has created pages upon pages of instructions on how to sack employees.
Still, this is better than the ‘right sizing’ exercise of a new media company I worked for. We were all called to a meeting. My boss got up in front of everyone and switched on a power point. ‘Here is our current organisation. Page 2 shows our new organisation. If your name is not in one of these little boxes (indicates with red light pointer thingy), please go to Meeting Room 3 where HR are waiting for you. Thanks for your work’. Then he left the room.
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youve said new media twice this week. twice.The last of the rock starsWhen hip hop drove the big carsIn the time when new mediaWas the big idea
You’re right.I have.I’m sorry.(both references relate to the same crappy company and the same twatty boss)