One of the dubious privileges of rising up through the ranks is that you occasionally come to know more than some or most around you do about the inner workings of the evil empire otherwise known as your employer. And sometimes that knowledge takes shape in the form of knowing who will or won't still be around tomorrow.
It's one thing when there is a severely under performing employee and you have finally bled enough paperwork and documentation for the Legal Gods and Human Resources to bless the exit strategy. It's quite another when for the good of the company people who have done nothing wrong will lose their jobs. Not because of something they did or didn't do. Not because they could have been better or smarter or more proactive. Not because of anything within their control. Just because they happened to be in wrong role at the worst possible time.
It's rough when it's in your own department, but funny enough, if you have a heart, it's no better when it's someone else's. Sure, there's a brief prayer of thanks that it's not you and not your employees, but it's someone else's employees. It's someone else's friends. It's someone else's colleagues and proteges.
I don't condemn the decisions. I even agree with the needs that are being met, but it doesn't make it any easier to look those people in the eye and realize that I know something they don't. I know something that will become painfully apparent to them in days or weeks.
I know that I'm looking at the Walking Dead.
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