Invisible Man wrote:The last firing went down today. Took three hours. Guy said his life is over, wife will leave, won't be able to make up his debts. Said he was 'gonna do something rash,' and needed to sit and talk. Said he was a failure of a human being, and that he was at the end of his rope. Begged for his job, or any job.
Jesus Christ what a shit day for everybody involved.
Why tf do *people* (read: cozy corporate
bigshots and buster-ass bureaucrats, asinine administrators) do this shit the week before Christmas?
I got canned from a much-less-important job the week of Christmas back in the Bush years.
But I didn't have a household full of dependents & soul-sucking debt stressing me out. That's just scust.
They really had to ruin the holiday weekend for everyone in proximity of this fella's life? Couldn't wait until the week after?
This is the exact type of bullshit why I have no patience for the lip-service of corporate speak & academia overrun by cold phonies.
I was already in a sour mood, since my ilfss-mas gift stopped working today. Half of it anyway. Suddenly, in the proper context my issue (rightfully) seems like small potatoes, but I'm now in even more of a sour mood, sad for the fella who got laid off instead of a bonus