Work Drama - Not Me!
Oct. 1st, 2024 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garnigalMy coworker was let go today. She'd been with the company for about a year, and I actually got a hiring bonus for her because I referred her.
She'd gotten Covid a few weeks ago, and the illness/malaise/brain fog resulted in a terrible job drafting a file, leading to her team lead and manager rewriting it until midnight that day. Definitely not great. She'd had appointments that led to her work messaging looking like she was away for 3 hours, there was another file that wasn't good and required substantial rewrites, she left the office at 3:30 because she lives in a different city and was trying to avoid traffic at one end of her commute or the other... just a lot of small stuff that led to being reprimanded.
She chose to argue parts of the reprimand, and that led to a meeting today in which she got fired.
I think, and I told her this, that it's more about the fact that we aren't going to hit our revenue target for the second year in a row, and they are looking for ways to cut operating costs. Nevertheless, it's shitty for morale, and leaves the rest of us looking over our shoulders. That said, the company revenue cracked a billion dollars last year, and it seems pretty shitty to punish us for an unreachable goal set in HQ by people who have no idea how the grants landscape in Canada works.
She'd gotten Covid a few weeks ago, and the illness/malaise/brain fog resulted in a terrible job drafting a file, leading to her team lead and manager rewriting it until midnight that day. Definitely not great. She'd had appointments that led to her work messaging looking like she was away for 3 hours, there was another file that wasn't good and required substantial rewrites, she left the office at 3:30 because she lives in a different city and was trying to avoid traffic at one end of her commute or the other... just a lot of small stuff that led to being reprimanded.
She chose to argue parts of the reprimand, and that led to a meeting today in which she got fired.
I think, and I told her this, that it's more about the fact that we aren't going to hit our revenue target for the second year in a row, and they are looking for ways to cut operating costs. Nevertheless, it's shitty for morale, and leaves the rest of us looking over our shoulders. That said, the company revenue cracked a billion dollars last year, and it seems pretty shitty to punish us for an unreachable goal set in HQ by people who have no idea how the grants landscape in Canada works.
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Date: 2024-10-01 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-02 06:10 pm (UTC)My belief is that they are going to restructure so we focus only on large projects for large companies (we got our start supporting small and medium sized businesses). In that case, we'll only need 2-4 writers and 1 manager. Currently we have 6 writers, 3 managers, and 3 directors. I have mentioned to my coworkers that I think there will be more firings/layoffs to come.
Ryan claims to never have laid anyone off, so I think that's a big reason why they are searching for cause for everyone.
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