On this morning I was called into my bosses office,the company had been in good shape at least as much as I thought. "I'm sorry Joe - we'll have to let you go" he said, "this is the HR consultant to look after you from now on" he continued, "and here is your package from us, please review it and sign the release papers which you may return in a few days". I was pretty shocked, I didn't come from this country and I thought that my position was secure I had been employed for just under a year and the company had been making record profits during the worst recession of the last 20 years. I sat their shocked in silence..."would you like a box for your things" my boss interrupted my thinking. "uh yeah i guess i might need two actually" i replied. I was escorted out to my desk by HR. I stood their alone, all my co-workers had been ushered into the cold Datacentre and not told anything other than "restructuring". The HR lady hurried me out and told me that the rest of my things would be couriered to me the next day. They even provided me with a taxi home - how courteous.
I broke the news to my fiancee who had called it the week before when one of my workmates had also been laid off. The same day I was laid off so were two others, another in my team too. The rest of the day I conversed with ex-coworkers, friends, and family about what I was going to do...
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