as part of corporate mandate, 10 percent of our workforce is to terminated immediately and another 20% will be reduced in hours. anyone with reduction in hours will lose their benefits because they are no longer ful time.
i'm supposed to be on vacation, but i'm going back early to help my boss (and best friend) break the news to these great employees.

Start with the woman who couldn't suck dick properly.

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How horrible! Pray for those that you have to terminate. It is soooo hard out there.


Smooches;)

Fury said:

how many managers in those 10% ?

how much salary/benefits are high D's and the C-suites giving up ?



I also hope your 'workforce' doesn't know you're on prince.org

BlueZebra said:

That was an interesting vid...but honestly speaking, he just might be the ONLY CEO doing this. Those dern CEO's could care less about their employees. It's dog eat dog.

Fury said:

That's so sad all around. It often makes me wonder how did our economy get to be so bad? When exactly did all of this start? while i'm on it, I should research this.

missfee said:

Those people calling themselves CEO's shouldn't really be CEO's then.
I know it's about cost and the workforce is the highest cost of a company, I'm not stupid But the workforce is also the biggest capital of the company.

It's an abberation if you cut down 10% of your workforce but don't look at your own out of the ordinary salary and benefits (for what? because you cut down 10% of the workforce and saved the company for another quarter ?).

Great leaders, great CEO's are people persons, they make a difference on that level. Anybody can look at charts and numbers and run numbers through algorithms. Not everybody can work with people.

missfee said:

It started even b4 the Bush administration. Dig deep, do alot of research, u'll see

Fury said:

i feel no truth in this

cheers!
s=v=n s+v~n(sq2) 7.

BlueZebra said:

nothing but the truth.

BlueZebra said:

800 midlevel and upper-management people got terminated 2 weeks ago. apparently they worked their way from the top and made the bottom tier cuts last. one of the employees i have to terminate is a 3 day a week dialysis patient the terminated employees can reapply in 30 days at minimum wage...i mean really...how do you terminate somebody and then hire them back (maybe) and 30-40% less than what they were making?

Sorry to hear. It's a rough time we're all going though and I fear it's going to get much worse before it gets better.


My own company announced to us a month ago that all managers at a certain level and everyone above will not be getting any raises this year so that the rest of us can expect at least something, but it will be very minimal compared to our usual annual increase.

We've not discussed lay-offs yet, but it can only be around the corner.

Fury said:

It's standard practice to include rehire terms in termination procedures. I'm not sure mentioning the hiring conditions upon rehire though ...

If they worked their way from the top down, that's a good start. How many managers are left ? For how many people ?

CarrieMpls said:

BlueZebra said:

6 managers for approximately 50 employees...after the purge. but honestly, my boss and myself are the only two that i consider well rounded problem solvers... we've all had more responsibilities piled on our plate, and the others haven't quite caught up to speed.i'm guessing the on'e who can't adjust to this leaner machine will be the next to go

I'm sorry that you have to be the bad guy. that whole situation sounds like it just sucks.

Im sorry that really sucks!

That blows


We can relate Michael had to let 2 more people in his department go this week - now understand that this is a very small town and we know almost everyone he works with on a personal level. All our kids know each other and we have community events and sports all together.

It really sucks

Teacher said:

Don't you teach little kids...boys and girls?...hmmmm

Eeeewwwww! Sorry to hear that! Good luck!

peacenlovealways said:

that's right, teachers shouldn't have a sense of humour teacher what were you thinking!

ZombieKitten said:

Teacher said:

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AlienX2050 said:

At least somebody got the reference to Fury's other thread.

peacenlovealways said:

And I tell them all to visit the Org

We just went through a 10 percent reduction too. (Thank goodness I surived this round) I'm so sorry for those who will lose their jobs.

applekisses said:

who comes up with those numbers ?

BlueZebra said:

Finance people.

applekisses said:

right around christmas, we were using $22,00 per week in payroll.then that number got cut in subsequent weeks to 20k, 17k and then down to 15k--same amount of employees, but 7k less in budget. if the people we were letting go were young i wouldn't feel as bad, because the likelyhood that they can find something else is better than the one's who are getting terminated--they're all over 55 years old and have been with the company at least ten years.