Unkind Cuts
With things being so hectic here at Faceless Corp sometimes it's hard to find time to write up a quick post. It's also hard to separate myself enough from the tumult in order to really assess things. A month ago we were told that our facility - on of the last fabrication facilities left in Silicon Valley - was closing by the end of the year. Three weeks ago we were all told that we'd be cutting 25% of our technicians due to the closure. Yet I as still shocked this morning when I arrived at work to find that all of our technicians had been given their 60 day notice. Apparently the new management had decided that it would be easier to give everyone their notice and then simply inform the unlucky 25% in a couple of weeks. Of course this leaves open the legal basis for just firing anyone, anytime. After all they'd all been given their notice.
I'm certainly not overly sentimental about business decisions - sometimes people must be let go for the viability of the overall enterprise. It's the manner in which you let people go and the lack of respect you show for them and their situations that I find so distasteful in this case. It's the overly legalistic writing in the notice, the Bushian attempt to put yourself in a legal position to make any course of action you care to, that makes my blood boil, and leaves me feeling complicit in this act. So I am sitting here typing this hoping to expiate myself.