late, but oh well
Due to the current economic situation, last week my boss announced that there would be some layoffs. I work for a magazine group and all the staff on our various publications occupy the same floorspace. We knew some people would have to be killed from our department, but I figured that a few of the more profitable magazines would be fairly safe.

So the day after the layoffs were announced, I was strolling over to the cooler, and a few of my colleagues were surrounding the table where one of the girls who writes for a lifestyle magazine works.

Now, the magazine in question has a fairly extensive beauty page, and as a result, the girls working on it get bombarded with a crapload of free lotions and other nice things, more than they can use in fact, and they have periodic giveaways when women from other department come buy to pick whatever they want to take home.

It was this in mind when I breezed past, innocently chirping: "What's all this then, Christmas clearance?"

Only to be met with stony silence, punctuated by sniffling. One of the women turned around and shook her head. Yes, one of the women working on that magazine had just been fired.

And of course, to make myself look even better, all I did was scuttle back to my desk and try to look busy.
(schnuff, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 10:43, Reply)