re: #223 goddamnedfrank

Damn. I got a nice letter explaining that I was being laid off for budgetary reasons, that I was eligible for future re-hire, and instructions that I should file for unemployment insurance. You did see this coming though, and considering the economy I think it has to be for economic reasons.

Once upon a time HR stood for human relations, when the fuck did it become okay for companies to openly treat people like resources, to be bought and used up?

When they stopped hiring people for the long term. Nowadays, workers are seen as replaceable. Moreover, many current companies are owned by institutional investors, whose main aim is short term profit. So if they think a location is understaffed, they think nothing of cutting the “excess”.