Retrenchment

It has been announced by our VP few months ago, that there will be a retrenchment around Easter time.

I was told by one of the colleague in Singapore two weeks ago, that there will be something major in two weeks time.

The VP has travelled outside the US HQ, and around the world, to many of the offices in different countries to send the message of the retrenchment. He arrived today.

Three person from my office's Sales department got retrenched, without any notice given, they left the office during lunch hour, and were told to come back to the office to pack their stuffs on Friday -- the Labour Day.

I find the way these three colleagues were treated today was very bad. Two of them were having bad performance, so I won't say much; but what happened to the other one was rather unfair, to many of us.

She has been working in the company for more than a decade, she has been trying to improve herself, she shows responsibilities of what she does, and do what is sensible. But she lost her battle to Ir. Decamouth and Mr. Big, and Mr. Cockroach has contributed to the after effects. We already see this coming onto her since about a month ago, she sensed it too.

Today's incident has shown me a lot of true faces among the colleagues, particularly Ir. Decamouth and Mr. Big. The whole sales department left only three person now -- Decamouth, Big and Miss Jaunejade. Ms Jaunejade, has been reporting to Big since long time ago.

Rumours said that there will be another re-structuring of the organisation, but with only 20 people left in the company now, I guess there really isn't much to re-structure.

The atmosphere in the office today is very quiet, I don't receive an email at all. All the senior managers have been busy dealing with this VP. I guess the VP is also having a shit task, to have to travel around the world to deliver this bad news...

Anyway, we were warned today, by the VP and our MD -- Don't make any mistake for the remaining of the year. I hope I have not overlooked anything in those projects...............