Sorry for the silence, but things have been awfully tense here at CosmoDemonic. So for all you people out there who are worried about your job, here’s a handy guide to lay-offs:Always fire people on a Friday.
That’s the rule, but they almost never follow it.
First hired, first fired.
First hired=lowest salary. They’re staying.
Keep the upcoming layoffs a secret.
Management could do a better job at keeping things secret if they all walked around the office banging drums and wearing t-shirts that said, “Layoffs are coming!”
Don’t listen to rumors.
All rumors are true.
If all the VPs took a pay cut…
Ain’t gonna happen.
They're getting rid of all the deadwood.
Deadwood has an amazing, almost inexplicable ability to survive round after round of layoffs. You tell me why.
There nothing you can do to keep your job.
Not true. I suggest begging, bribery or blackmail.
“There will be no more layoffs.”
Until the ones next week.
A severance agreement is just a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo.
That’s why you should have a lawyer look at it.
And finally:
Who’s staying?
Relatives, the boss everyone hates and the guy who never seems to do any work.
Who’s leaving?
The workhorse, the only person at the agency who knows how to build a webpage and the junior copywriter.
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