How you will be dismissed
The manager, along with his assistant, will wander into your office in the
late afternoon to tell you that the organization is undergoing
restructuring and that your position no longer exists. Your various
benefits will continue for 3 weeks (just try setting up a new life
insurance policy in that amount of time) and other compensation will be
paid. Your pension rights will be vested and your pension will commence 10
or 15 years from now, by which time it will probably be worthless. He will
thank you profoundly for your long years of excellent service and wish you
every success at finding new employment. He will add that he has engaged
the services of a relocation counsellor to help you with this task. The
counsellor, a complete stranger, will then be brought in to your office to
keep you occupied while the manager makes his getaway and while his
assistant
collects your keys, credit cards and suchlike sundries. The counsellor
will employ his psychological skills to mesmerise you and when he is
content that it is safe for him to leave you, he will make an appointment
for you to see him the next day in his own offices.
You turn to your computer terminal and discover that you have been
shut out of the network. However, the shutting out has been done
incompletely so that, although you no longer have
access to your files, you are still able to send out a few E_mail messages
to associates in other countries to let them know your fate. (Your
in-house colleagues, of whom the vast majority do not as yet
understand how to use E_mail even
under ideal circumstances, will not be told anything about the situation
until the manager addresses a reorganization meeting the following day.)
You realise that you had better get going or you will be late for the kids
who are due to be picked up at the dentist's in five minutes time. You
take some solace in the knowledge that most of your data files and
software (with whose use no-one else in the organization is familiar
anyway) are backed up on a machine in Japan, and that you will be able to
get copies from your colleagues in that country.
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