Been hearing it from a close friend for a month now, and seeing it in my own firm, where people get sacked, layed off, terminated from job or for that matter just disappear one fine day, un-noticed from the office crowd.Leaving you confused, curious, puzzled and whatever that keeps the earlier expressions alive.No one knows what happened, and nor do we know what will happen tomorrow.
There were days when you knew who is gonna stay and who will be out. There were performance reviews happening every quarter, may be in half a year and then annually. Where you got to know where you stand and where you can move on to a new line of work and functions with in the company or move out to new venues. But now things have been changing like never before, the reviews may happen may not you just never know. Some person around you if fortunate sends you a good bye email announcing his last day at work. All you end up knowing is something has happened with an outcome of people disappearing as mentioned earlier.
Poor Performance is just a mask for the decline of the Company's Fortune. I have seen it in front of my eyes, where a company declared itself bankrupt over the weekend.
'Remember, remember the 15th September' this is all I could recall since that month last year.
The feeling of uncertainity grabbed all of us for the next 3 months. As I recall, I never ever bothered about the share markets in my years of academic studies, it was something which was for adults and for people who are involved in Business and all that stuff, where a person is alone responsible for his growth and decline. That month, I saw the US Markets opening with a new hope every day to see something good happening, but Wall Street did not gave any good news at all till date. Today there is some outcome to all that but still the Storm persists to blow us away on any given sunday. Many stories related to this storm were heard, read and written by whom we know as the working class of the society.
With Recession waves moving across all the different seas of industry, every ship has to lose some weight to stay floating on the unprecedented conditions in the sea level.
People may get or are getting two choices which both led to the same outcome........either your job dies at our(Company) hands or you kill it yourself proving it as a suicide.
Lets hope that this storm ends some day soon.... in the nearest future if possible. Casualties will be numerous but there could be other outcome........ with the plagued market situation.... things are uncertain and indefinate.I wish you all a best of luck to come and wish some for me..... as we are the sailors of different ships sailing the same sea, just caught in the different parts of the same storm.
Regards--JJ
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