Bad news. This company is closing… these people laid off from work… that’s all I get to see when I watch the business channel. Bits and pieces of bad news. Bite-size tragedies. News reports that prick your heart and make your head spin. This is why we need to refrain from watching the news before we hit the bed.
This reminds me of a conversation that transpired between husband and wife one evening. Tired from work, weary from traffic the husband sat down on his favorite chair, held up his remote control device and said to his wife, “Your choice Sweetheart. Do you want to watch the 6 o’clock news and suffer from indigestion or do you want to watch the 11 o’clock news and suffer from insomnia?” Either way it’s bad news all the way.
But dealing with bad news doesn’t mean you shut yourself off from the reality of what’s happening. You need courage to face it yet you need a healthy perspective on dealing with it. This is why this series we will be starting today, has something to do with an obvious fact of reality that is hitting a lot of people in our country today. The reality of mass layoffs, business closures as well as downsizing.
So people are declared redundant. Jobs disappear. Retrenchments are happening. I deal with HR people all the time and I do know the situation. So what happens if you happen to be part of the people who got laid off from you job?
How do you deal with the situation?
This is what we will be talking about in our series entitled: “Dealing With Layoffs.”
