“We are making your position redundant” was the gist of meeting.
There
were a few well-placed key words and phrases such as “Revenue downturn”, “strategic
restructuring”, “Regrettable”, “unforeseen” blah blah blah.
I
know it wasn’t personal it was necessary to make positions redundant and mine,
along with three others, was identified as one that could go.
In
truth it didn’t come as a complete surprise in fact I thought it would have
happened earlier than it did.
The
flow of work into my “in” tray had slowed to the point where it was barely a
trickle and time had begun to hang heavy and more and more I had to make myself
look busy which is never an easy task.
However,
although I was not surprised it was still a shock when the hammer fell.
It
was all very amicable, and I have no complaint about the way it was done, and the
financial package was more than acceptable so no hard feelings.
I
did feel a little sadness at the end because after twenty-two years in the job
I felt I was beginning to get the hang of it.
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