Is this a real job?
Flying around firing people? These billion dollar companies can't do it themselves?
Where can i apply for this job?
Its easier to pay someone to do your dirty work. Especially, someone who has experience and skills at it.
Do I have to give it to you?
Yes it's a real job. Last year right after New Years. The company I worked at for thirteen years decided to fire me. My boss didn't do it. The company I worked for sent a hired gun to fire me.
Just like it was shown in the movie. This hired gun dressed nice. Said all the same bull crap lies. And had a packet to hand to me telling me what the company was giving me as I was shoved out the door.
Sorry to read that eddieinportland
George Lucas talking about: 'Hey, give it to me, I'll fix it. I'll make 20 more of them'
It sucked.
But a few hours after my ex employer let me go. Their competitor found out that I wasn't working there anymore. They called me up and wanted to talk to me about a job. They hired me and I was back at work before I got my severance pay or my first check from unemployment.
What still pisses me off is that my boss and supervisor didn't have guts or were brave enough to fire me and other people. They had to hire someone else to do the job. Well what comes around goes around.
That's one reason I don't feel sorry for George Clooney's character in the movie. He goes around the country firing people. The only thing he cares about is staying on the road, getting the perks of free food, travel and hotels, and get 10 million miles of his frequent flyer miles. Then half way through the movie we're supposed to feel sorry for him because he realized that his life in unfulfilled and empty.
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"Going to work for a previous compeTITor? Have you no pride or self-respect man!"
Of course I have pride and self-respect. But how am I going to pay my bills and take care of my kids?
The job I was offered and took paid me more then the one I lost.
It would have been foolish not taking the job.
And I work in the beer and wine industry. There's really not that many secrets. It's all about sales numbers. And those are easy to get.
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These days you have to take the first offer you get, especially if you are over 40 or 45.
I'm in IT, so of course I've been laid off due to outsourcing. However, the HR people did it. I've never seen an outsider come in and do the deed. As this movie shows, he could easily be replaced by people sitting behind computer screens. I like to think Karma takes care of people like this.
Eighty of us got laid off in one day several years ago. I had worked there 17 years. The HR guy involved got laid off later. I had no ill will against the company. I live in a right to work state, so without a contract there is no guarantee I will have a job from one day to the next. I am now contracting in South Florida for more money than I have ever made. If you have good experience and and education (I'm sure my MBA helped) you can find something just as good or better.
I was an IT manager, and the hardest thing I ever had to do was eliminate positions. HR told me to pick 2 people. That was really tough.
Wow, seems like poetic justice that their competitor hired you! Thank goodness it worked out.
George Lucas talking about: 'Hey, give it to me, I'll fix it. I'll make 20 more of them'
I've been on both sides of the equation. Don't assume that your boss or bosses boss was the one making the decision, or even knew about it before hand. I remember about five years ago when we had a big RIF at my current employer. A SVP and several HR wonks showed up one morning unannounced and just started marching people one by one to conference rooms. The managers and even some VPs had no idea it was coming. The company had hired an outside bean counter firm to actual pick the candidates for "reduction". Some of the managers were extremely PO'ed because many of the ones let go were the best employees. Two of the individuals let go were actually hired back a few weeks later after the department heads put up a fight. The stupidity of upper management is one thing that will never cease to amaze me.
shareIt's not that they're scared to fire you. It's that they don't want to take the time or the stress to fire 15 of you in a row.
shareThat’s the way I see it. Plus the ones Ryan was doing were probably where they were laying off a lot of people at a time. HR doesn’t have time to fire 50-100 people at a time.
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