The inevitable has come. Effects of the global recession are slowly creeping into our lives. Yesterday it was announced in the company I work for that a certain number of employees will have to be fired. I choose the word fired because it caught some people unprepared causing anxiety which was translated to hateful words about the company, about a number of individuals and to life in general. It has been announced in the early part of the 1st quarter that reduction of the number of employees was to be expected because of the steep decline of the company’s income so the fixed cost had to be decreased as well. This unprecedented collapse of business is not exclusive to the company I work for but is in fact happening to almost every other company in the whole world.
The changes that were slowly implemented and the warnings that have been continuously given were not enough to wake people up from their deep slumber and not even to peek out of the shell they engulfed themselves in. People refused to acknowledge the possibility of great loss and some simply did not care at all.
Thereby when news about the lay off finally was released, they were surprised but in the same were not for all along they have known yet they totally discounted the obvious. A paradox that made people re-evaluate how they spent the last couple of weeks and wait in vain until next week when the people who’d go will be named.
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