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Having to issue two-week notices to about 10 clerical staff due to budget cutbacks for 2024. It's always tough to tell someone their job has been eliminated. This group was mostly young women, most with one or two children. As the bearer of bad news, you may take the initial brunt from the employee. You can't vent back and it does no good to tell them how sorry you are for having to tell them this. You have to "put on your game face" and do what has to be done.
Realizing that at the end of the day, my company will prioritize itself. For better or for worse, as an employees it's hard for me to not feel an emotional attachment to the people I've worked with for years. But there's no point in feeling emotional about someone being let go when I don't know the entire story from mgmt's point of view. It still doesn't feel great though and has sent a lot of insecurity throughout the rest of the employees.
It wasn't a real struggle with work, but I have been extremely fatigued and unmotivated. I had to push through all of this to get work done by certain deadlines. I still don't know how I got through all that
Our trusty inventory system decided to take a spontaneous vacation to "Errorville" this week. Gone were the days of clear stock levels and cheerful green "in stock" flags. Instead, everything was shrouded in a fog of red "unknown" indicators and panicked vendor calls. I spent hours digging through cryptic error messages, channeling my inner IT superhero, and finally managed to reboot the system and bring order back to the warehouse chaos.