Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Last week one of my friends Sumit received this awful and not so unexpected news, “Effective today your services are not required. Kindly collect your belongings/ dues by the weekend”.
He immediately called me up with very stressed and frustrated voice and complained about the employer that he has worked with them for more than 4 [...]
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Recently an ex colleague of mine called to discuss his problems at work and the next steps he should take.
He did mention about the usual suspects like office politics, pink slips, bad management etc. and now shaken with the system and totally unsure about what he should do next.
As I interviewed him on his past [...]
Friday, October 17th, 2008
“Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it…”
Well this line could be held valid for most if not all of the employees of Jet Airways who were given the pink slip.
Is it because the large numbers of people were involved in this exercise or the cold manner in which they were exited that got us thinking? [...]