You’re Fired!! Now What
An Open Letter To Corporate America
Dear So-called leaders and CEO’s:
This is a very rough time for job seekers and all employees.
No job is safe. Every day, we are bombarded with the news that some companies are laying off hundreds of employees to improve their balance sheets. Any employee could go to work tomorrow and be told your services are no longer needed.
Corporate greed is at an all-time high, and many good people are being cut from the payrolls so that the management people in the front office can continue to make their million-dollar salaries
I find this an absolute disgrace.
Yet, these companies will require you to turn in a two-week notice when you end your employment.
Sometimes, you turn in a two-week notice and are told to clean out your desk immediately. You may also be told you do not need to work out your two-week notice.
Yet, these same companies hold Zoom meetings and make phone calls to terminate people on the spot without notice.
Cowards — all of them. If you cannot look employees in the eye and tell them you are terminating their employment, you have no business being in a leadership position.
If the employee must turn in a two-week notice, why is the company not required to give you a two-week notice when they terminate your employment?
Corporate America has become so full of greed and focused solely on how much money they can put into the bottom line that they have forgotten, in some cases, how to treat employees humanely.
In many cases, five-, ten-, and even twenty-year employees are being discarded in the same way you would take a bag of trash to the curb.
The above represents the worst of the worst; unfortunately, there are way more of these companies than those that treat employees well.
However, a few companies try to treat employees humanely during this process.
-There are severance packages given
-Insurance packages extended
-Reference letters given
-Health insurance benefits extended
I salute all the companies that value people, treat them with dignity, and value them as people, not production units.
I salute all the companies that found other ways to cut costs besides payroll.
I salute all the companies that are happy making millions rather than billions.
I salute all the companies whose CEOs reduced their million-dollar salaries so that employees could keep their jobs.
You must understand a few things as an employee working in corporate America.
You are just a number on a spreadsheet; you’re a unit of production.
Company Loyalty does not exist no matter how long you have been on the payroll.
Your job is not your identity
And most importantly, always remember this.
Always WORK TO LIVE, never LIVE TO WORK.
A case study:
Goldman Sachs announced it laid off 1300–1800 people just two months after it saw its profits soar 150%.
Currently, Goldman Sachs is generating $1 billion in profit per month.
I don’t know about you, but I find these layoffs, combined with the profit Goldman Sachs generated, an absolute disgrace.
As a CEO or CFO, things start to go south when you manage from the bottom line instead of the top line.
You will make the wrong decision almost 100 percent of the time.
Quit letting shareholders dictate and tell you how to manage your business!
There is a right way and a wrong way to do business. Most of the time, these so-called visionary CEOs are doing it wrong by their employees when they listen to their stockholders and do their bidding.
Working for Corporate America SUCKS!! And it is an absolute cesspool.
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