To My Manager

I lifted this from COP's board ( @JskTPq5 ) - it applies to me as well:

To my now former supervisor:

I'm sure you were completely justified in selecting me for termination. After all, you spoke to me once or twice during your tenure in your latest position. I'm sure you evaluated me fairly. And during your time pushing papers around and otherwise tying up your time adding zero value I'm sure you became thoroughly familiar not just with what I do now, but also with the contributions I made long before your arrival on the team (or the company).

You're right, I didn't take credit for others' work, berate my competition, extol my own abilities, or make obvious, superfluous statements in meetings in order to elevate others' perception of me. I had hoped any decent manager was skilled enough to see through that BS. I was wrong. Thank you for mentoring me in one key area: survival.

I now know talent means nothing. I'll be sure to play all the vile games. I'll be relentless and ruthless in tearing down others and remembering that knowledge sharing or assisting others is not actually valued, despite the slogans and values the corporation claims are important that week.

I'll play the system and pretend that I agree that EVERY-FREAKING-ONE is supposed to aspire to be a "leader." Being a manager is the absolute culmination of self-actualization. In future, the company will cut the true fat: absolutely worthless jobs like yours. Go back to where you came from, have a nice life, and "@!$% you too!!!"

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As a former HON manager I can tell you I had no say on who was let go. It killed me to let go of a guy that was awesome and keep someone else that didn't do jack sh--. I still can't make sense of it. I knew we were going to have to cut people and had a plan to let the 2 worthless people on my team go and when I came in that morning I was told my plan was vetoed by the site leader. I quit a week later. Leaving HON was the best thing I ever did.

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To my employee

To my employee, I'm sorry that you feel i did not make a good decision in letting you go. past performance reviews play a part in the decision, but the reality is that i need to determine what skill set is needed for to continue the remaining work we have left to do. Is this impersonal and devoid of emotion, if only i could strip that away from my decision making, for me it is difficult to make the decisions that are thrust upon me by the company.

for your information the day after the RIF announcement was made, i was told to get rid of two (highest paid) people in my group.

i protested that I had to much work and could not lose another person. i was informed that if i could not make a decision it would be made for me, implication i would be next, so while you are now unemployed,

maybe you can rest easy, as i am now unemployed. not because in did not make a decision but my boss also had to make a decision as to who would remain to continue the remaining work.

I'm not complaining as i do not have as much to lose as other senior people who are being screwed out benefits for a lifetime of comment to the company. A breach of the social contract Honeywell made with it employees. But Rather I'm mad that between decision made by leadership and HR, that i am now the scapegoat for the events that have unfolded.

I became a manager to lead my team to do great things, to coach, guide and make people better, not to continuously cull the organization.

It is not certain that one's manager made the choice, unless due to bad reviews/performance....not even the manager's manager; last time the word was that higher ups eliminated jobs based on yields, outsourcing, etc...more like directors, VP's or even HR.

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