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For the first time this week, I'm having to lay people off. These are people I've worked with for ten years, who are in some cases very good friends. What a shit way to make a living, and more than ever makes me think about how I can get into a creative profession, with no managerial oversight. Surely the stress can't top this. I'm miserable. I almost quit in order to save at least one of my employees' jobs.
Anyone been on the "giving" side of layoffs / redundancies? I'm in hell.
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Roshi
That sucks.
Sorry to hear that.
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mlbot
sooper sucks
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mlbot
My grandpa was once promised a job as an English teacher. Over the summer, though, the university said "soryy, but Proffer X decided not to retire, so that position is no longer open. We do have an opening in the Spanish department, can you teach Spanish?"
He wrote back "I'll be the best darned Spanish teacher you ever had!" and went out and bough a book on "how to speak Spanish".
He was, as he said, the worst darned Spanish teacher they ever had, but he hung on until Professor X retired and took his position.
So the moral of the story, if you want one of them creative fun jobs, you first hafta creatively lie your ass off.
altho, MtHood C.C. is still looking for a digital media teacher.
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minisystem
the little management i do is my favourite part of my job. i hate all the other crap. of course, i don't have to fire people. but i do get to yell at them every once in a while, which can be enjoyable.
big bummer! 
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seanh
woah! your grandpa tought the x-men spanish? rad!
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mlbot
Back when they thought Magneto was Latin.
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cbit
tantan said: "For the first time this week, I'm having to lay people off."
I completely understood that sentence in the wrong way.
That must be awful, my sympathies for the laid off and you
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jdg
i would hate you as my manager. fact
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mlbot
"yo soy del monstruo destructor, la perra "
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jdg
mlbot said: ""yo soy del monstruo destructor, la perra ""
we speak american here, go vote for obama on your free time
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utofbu
I have never laid anyone off, but have recently been laid off.
I feel fierce venom for the woman who cornered me in a room and made me sign the paper. Soon after, the stress was soo much alongside the starving, that I began bleeding and passing blood through my bowels... all i could think was " I never needed my healthcare until now"
I have moved back in with my parents and apply to over 10 jobs a day with no luck or callbacks save 2 interviews that have turned out to be nothing. Cant go back to school without a job.
Tanner, im glad it rips you up inside, but at the same time, be glad you have a job. Be very glad you have a job. Dont quit. Look for another job and when you get one, then quit, dont expose yourself to nothingness if you can help it, things are going to get much worse and being jobless makes it very difficult to weather the storm.
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celibacyclub
damn gregg, sorry to hear that.
at least the severity of your woes can comfort me in a way.
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celibacyclub
i only manage 1 person at my job.
hes 20 years older than me though, so its a little weird.
i sometimes have to defend his position to my boss, whos also my dad, and is going senile.
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umami
The great thing about being a manager is that you aren't a policy maker, you're a conduit for someone else's policy. So you can deftly deflect the blame and pain toward your supervisors.
I got laid off about 6 years ago, which ultimately led to finishing my first album and taking myself more seriously as a musician. The guy that gave me the bad news seemed like an asshole at the time, but now in hindsight I realize he was probably just really nervous. He handed me some lame excuse about my work performance (I had, the day before, just delivered a new product design that the CEO was so excited about he was running around the hallways with it in his hands, giggling) and that was that. I guess my point is, don't be a douche. Be honest and don't try to soften the blow with BS. Your employees may not like you for a bit, but at least they will respect you. It's a business decision, not a personal one, and keeping the two separate will be your greatest asset.
On the other hand, perhaps you could set up a small portrait studio in your office. When your doomed subjects ask about it, just hand them their papers and take a quick photo right at the moment they realize they're getting the axe. Post the set on flickr called "Laid off: Your Loss is My Gain" and become internet famous.
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