There has to be a badly-done layoff in there somewhere, right? Here, let me share two that I witnessed:
1. Company doing its first layoff gathers everyone together and announces the names of those who'll be leaving soon -- one of whom is not there because she's on her honeymoon. There is a hasty instruction to keep that one quiet until she returns.
2. Company has been in trouble for a while (after the dot-com bubble). At the holiday party, the CEO tells the following joke (summarized here; you can fill in the bits with Google): "Man on his deathbed, talking to his wife. Remember when we had that terrible car accident and I was laid up for six months, and you were there to take care of me? Remember when my business failed and we ate ramen and lived in a shack for a year, and you stayed by me? And now, during this illness, you've never left my side. You know what? You're bad luck." Two weeks later he laid us all off; apparently we were bad luck for him.
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Date: 2009-03-27 11:08 pm (UTC)1. Company doing its first layoff gathers everyone together and announces the names of those who'll be leaving soon -- one of whom is not there because she's on her honeymoon. There is a hasty instruction to keep that one quiet until she returns.
2. Company has been in trouble for a while (after the dot-com bubble). At the holiday party, the CEO tells the following joke (summarized here; you can fill in the bits with Google): "Man on his deathbed, talking to his wife. Remember when we had that terrible car accident and I was laid up for six months, and you were there to take care of me? Remember when my business failed and we ate ramen and lived in a shack for a year, and you stayed by me? And now, during this illness, you've never left my side. You know what? You're bad luck." Two weeks later he laid us all off; apparently we were bad luck for him.