Our VP of operation has turned to cutting the most costly group in our company. No, not upper management. The way they've been hiring, apparently we are not top-heavy enough. No, my dear reader, he has targeted the women on the assembly line who are close to retirement. These women have the gall to keep on working just so they can rake in three dollars more than the minimum wage. Such excess can not be tolerated.
Today, he started by giving our 30 year, extremely experienced veteran of the production line the choice of taking over the job of our much younger cleaning lady or of leaving. Our as-of-this-moment retiree chose life outside the company instead of remaining on to clean toilets. Please understand that our cleaning lady does excellent work. So when she heard that she was almost terminated without any warning or cause, you can understand that she was a little upset.
Yesterday, you would have thought that morale was bad. But today, once the story of our VP's action got around the plant, you could look down and see snails soaring miles above our employees' morale. Thank goodness the VP did this during this holiday season...
1 comment:
OMG, what kind of upper management is running your company? I hope this one guy isn't representative of the entire upper management. After all, if all of the chiefs fire the Indians, who do they think will be doing the work? I would have been just as offended as the retiree, and as angered as the cleaning lady. There is no just cause for such a lack of compassion. What ever happened to upper management taking a cut like the rest of us in order to stay in business? Amazing how the love of money corrupts those who seek to hoard it all! Sorry, I just can't believe the way some companies are handling their cutbacks. I hope there is a bright side to your company's story before too much longer!
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