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.
“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).
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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