"It's part of business."

Ever heard that one, before? I'm sure you have. It's almost always heard during shitty times, like, you know, when layoffs happen? Yeah, that happened this week. The company I work for decided that, as part of their business strategy, they were going to use the typical cost-cutting bullshit method of reducing headcount. Quite a few people globally started being let-go and my group didn't escape the chopping block unscathed.

Sadly, some really good people who were both colleagues and friends had to go. Some of which had been with the company a decade! You really have to stop and wonder why some people are let go and others stay. Who makes the decisions and what are they based on? I can tell you it didn't have anything to do with how hard a person worked, their time with the company or their skills. If that were the case, then things would have been completely fucking different. Just ONE of the people who got let go could do the jobs of 2 or more people in a certain department that somehow managed to go untouched. I could go deeper into it, but whats the point? it's not going to change anything. A leopard can't change it's spots...

It just sucks knowing how, in this economy, people are being forced out, left and right, with no chance to prepare and are handed a meager severance, a handshake and a "Good luck", spoken through a serpent's smile. Yeah, that's gonna help pay the mortgage. But, I guess it's just a art of business, right?