Difficult decisions

Sales were low and we had to reduce overhead.

I was bereft.  How could I lay people off with no warning?  Also, I didn’t feel that every step was taken to avoid it and therefore had conflicting feelings about senior management.

Practically, we did have a few positions that were extraneous and limiting the core team’s ability to streamline the workload.  Also, I needed to take care of my family and that meant keeping my job as long as it didn’t conflict with my core values or ethics.  As my sister put it- ”Taking a stand and losing your job won’t save all the others who are being laid off.”

Overall, I felt horrible about it.  There is never a good answer to job eliminations.  Even if you don’t like or respect someone, it doesn’t feel good to make them unemployed.

I did make selections and guide my peers about their selections.  We laid off many people in one day and it was awful.

In life, there is a balance of the relative world and the spiritual world – one can simultaneously eliminate jobs and feel compassion for those people being laid off.