It’s not a job…it’s a calling
Job elimination. Workforce reduction. Terminated. Laid off. Let go. Dismissed.
Hearing any one of these words can strike fear and uncertainty in the life of an unsuspecting employee who hears it.
For me, the word was ‘restructuring.’
In January of 2008, I was summoned to a small, bare conference room at the end of the hall in the office building I had called home for the past 23 years. Although I was anticipating the news, it still came as a shock to actually hear someone across the table say that ‘restructuring’ was taking place and that my services as a radio program producer would no longer be required at Crown Financial Ministries, the place I had served for over two decades.
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