Deal with redundancy, cause that’s just business

Federico Rebeschini
2 min readMay 20, 2016

X has been made redundant with an email after 4 months in the role. Not even a Skype call. His email has

X didn’t receive any signal or a warning before. But maybe X was just naïve.

“We appreciate your skills, you did very well, but we don’t need you anymore. Now that you did everything we believe could have helped us, we leave you. We are concerned about your personal situation but this is a business decision.”

X has a 9 months pregnant wife, so that was probably the reason of “concern” mentioned.

X made the mistake of thinking that numbers were speaking by themselves.

Yellow line highlights the week in which X joined the business

Is the former employer sleeping a good sleep now? Does he believe that the business decision formula justifies what he’s done? I bet he does. It’s 2016 anyway.

Now X knows that there’s nothing he can do apart from stop writing and going back to search for a job in his industry. X fancies opening a competitive business to kick his former employer out of the market, and maybe one day he will. But first of all X is searching for a job to give some peace of mind to his family. X is concerned about the well being of his baby.

X thinks that if ever he will become an employer he will be a better person than this, but he’s not so sure. Maybe X will become like his now former employer because this is 2016 and the world has been headed in this direction for a while now.

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Federico Rebeschini

The enchantment lies in the moments of goodbye. Web enthusiast and sometime freelance