Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Staff Termination


Hello All,
I watched a movie named Up in the Air sometime ago. John Clooney plays a role of an agent that informs the employees of an organization about their termination. This is mostly based on the downsizing of organizations during recession. The movie shows how difficult it is to tell someone that he or she is no more needed. I never really felt it until two days ago.

The contracts for the employees in the project, in which I am doing my internship, are ending. The project director has the responsibility to extend their contracts based on their performance. The rest of the staff were going to get an extension but there was one employee whose contract was not going to be extended due to his lack of performance. The project director asked me to inform him and talk to him about the decision. I tried my best but I could not convince him that his performance was not good neither I could assure him that he will find a job somewhere else. He was really disappointed. Though it was due to his own fault, one still feels the pain when the other one is losing his job. But what we can do, someone has to make the call.    

Regards,
Javid    

2 comments:

  1. I can't imagine how tough that must have been; I'm surprised the director didn't do it himself.

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    1. Jordache,
      It was really tough. I could not convince him. I wrote about the decision that has been taken in my next blog. Thanks.

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