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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
If he had raised the bottom line by firing you you might think differently. You have a job now, but if the axe came at your neck and some guy got a bonus for firing you, would you still think he was a genius?
The executive's job is not to create wealth, it is to increase the bottom line, as you said. If CEOs busied themselves growing their business and creating wealth instead of focusing on the bottom line they wouldn't need to cut staff and throw people out of work, they would be growing the company and increasing employment.
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I expect my boss to do what is best for the company, not necessarily for me. If the situation doesn't suit me, I'll leave. I've done it in the past. There's always something else. On the other hand, I've also had to let people go. It was not pleasant, but it needed to be done. In one case it was a pretty obvious case of a square peg in a round hole, or as they say in Skip Barber -- "Other Careers Beckon". In the other case we just had too many people and not enough work, someone had to go and I had to make the unfortunate decision. Not pleasant, but if work was always fun they wouldn't have to pay people to do it. Then as I mentioned, in one job it was becoming clear that they didn't value my contribution any longer, so I quit and found another (better) job. I'm sure that my boss of the time was doing what he thought was right. So now he doesn't have my contributions any more and I'm happily employed at another company. It's most likely best for both of us
The job market is no different then being a free-agent athlete. You've got the job as long as it makes sense for both parties, otherwise it's time to move on. Change is a good thing, it reinvigorates organizations and provides the opportunity for people to grow and develop. Change also happens to organizations. Nothing goes on forever. I don't care who the CEO is or was, if your company was making buggy whips, something will have to change in order for it to survive, or else it will need to be downsized until it is at a size that matches the market. That change may mean changing the staff if the existing staff's skills don't match the new requirements. It's not a bad thing, but rather just a fact of life.
The whole concept of people being entitled to jobs is akin to denying gravity. It just doesn't work, and will most likely cause more pain and suffering than if you just accept the reality and learn to deal with it.