Friday, December 4, 2020

Stellar Manager Handles Layoff Like a Boss


So many people have been absolutely burned by layoffs in the past that seeing a story like this is a rare and welcome diamond in the rough. This person acted with the kind of understanding and responsibility that a cool manager should. For another story of a boss actually being great, here's a story of a VP who pulled rank and got canned by a cool CEO.

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Boss has to layoff staff, gets them rehired - Text - Posted by u/dogredsox 1 year ago What's the best job quitting story you can tell? 96% Upvoted

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Boss has to layoff staff, gets them rehired - Text - shortadamlewis 13.3k points · 1 year ago 4 3 8 O I had to lay off my entire staff (and myself) with 8 hours notice. I was the contract project manager on a government project (office type work). At our periodic review on a Thursday, the government announced they would not be renewing our contract and our last day was Friday (the next day).

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Boss has to layoff staff, gets them rehired - Text - I brought everyone into the conference room first thing the next day, let everyone know that we were all out of a job and that today was everyone's last day. I had everyone email me their resumes, and we went over everyone's on the conference room projector and updated them over the course of the day. I then printed out "reference" sheets for everyone, and we all spent the remainder of the day writing letters of recommendation for each other.

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Boss has to layoff staff, gets them rehired - Text - LukeTheApostate 5.2k points ·1 year ago You, individually and as a group, are exceptionally good people.

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Boss has to layoff staff, gets them rehired - Text - [deleted] 553 points · 1 year ago This reminds me of my favorite superintendent at my last job. We were downsizing and cut down 2 crews unexpectedly. The call had come from the highest up. We had not expected this and had just told them they were safe. The superintendent lays them off and tells them they all have jobs and to walk into another companies office on Monday. He then put in his two weeks citing that upper management had over stepped

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