Speaking of fun Christmas pastimes, N’s company announced today that they’ve been acquired and the workers have to stay for a remote general meeting at the end of which they’ll discover who will be made redundant in “the restructuring”.
N’s job is safe but that was a cruel exercise.
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They make them stay for one last interminable meeting just to find out they’ve been fired? Are they trying to score a workplace shooting?
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Right before Christmas! And after spending the first 2 hours of the meeting chirping excitedly about the great future of the new company.
I had a bottle of cooking wine stored for the holidays that disappeared during those two hours. And I don’t blame him.
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Who the hell fires people over a group meeting?
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Right? And on Christmas, too. Christmas! This is a small, homey company that’s being acquired by a corporate behemoth.
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“Who the hell fires people over a group meeting?”
It’s called worker discipline. There’s also an element of neoliberal performative cruelty in the name of ‘efficiency’ and a bunch of other dumb buzz words. Neoliberalism requires stunting normal human reactions (a bit like communism).
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There’s a reason “Up in the Air” was believable.
So, Walter …
“Oh, I fly around the country and fire people, most bosses are too chickenshit to do it themselves …”
“Really?”
“No, not really, but it’d make one hell of a story …”
Don’t ask drunken assholes what they do for a living.
Merry Christmas.
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