Today is my last day at the Empire. I dare not name this empire for fear of its wrath, but I trust many of you will know of whom I speak.
It was not voluntary, yet I welcome it. It comforts me that my time here was well spent, my efforts the greatest they’ve been. However, the result of those efforts, as always, has been subject to the approval of a superior authority. It seems this authority chose another direction. No matter. The result has given me the opportunity to see this organization for its true self, as I once feared it could be. Set aside the festive manner in which employees are… dare I say “celebrated”, and you will then see that the silent force behind closed doors has concern only for its continued exponential growth.
I do not fault it, were I in its shoes I might do the same, but I do not wish to enlist myself as a cog in the wheel of the machine in this manner any longer. I have learned its secrets, and I will progress with the lessons the experience has taught me.
In a few hours I will walk through the doors for the last time. Measures have been taken to ensure my departure is discreet, so I trust that as those doors close behind me, my presence here will fade, victim to the enzymes that break down and devour such unwanted things. My time has come, and though a part of me bears disappointment that I was cast aside so calously, I appreciate that this distasteful action was made without fuss.
Farewell.
Sounds like a bad break, but really don’t let it sour you on them. This advice coming from the guy with a blog called CEOhno must seem really hilarious. Look at the alternatives though you could have been working at Boeing a place where they hire too many bodies during expansion periods and have mass layoffs.
The reliance on contingent, temporary, or short term staff protects the rights of employees not eliminates them. They are doing you and all their employees a favor not by focusing on exponential growth but realistic employment practices.
One group can get it wrong within a large company this doesn’t mean that company is terrible just that group is. It just sucks when you end up on the short end of that behavior.
Again, I don’t fault anyone in the process. This is simply a difference in vision. I expected this experience to be something it’s clearly not.