One of Those Weeks
Both W and I have had sort of hard, stress filled weeks at work.
Yesterday, I terminated an employee. I believe it was for good reason and not arbitrary. He believes otherwise. I knew he would think that, so I was a ball of anxiety all morning. I went home at lunch to run a few miles to just work it out in my mind.
Today, W had a very difficult discussion about closing one of our offices. It is the right decision, but it is nevertheless extremely hard.
Neither of these decisions, nor the other decisions he, I and the VP-Operations make are ill conceived or capricious. And the hard decisions often come with much gut-wrenching determinations. It is not black and white.
What we always try to remember is that even though we are the owners, we also employ 120 people and ensuring that those people have a good, steady income is one of our priorities.
Fortunately, we have each other to help us make it through these weeks.
Yesterday, I terminated an employee. I believe it was for good reason and not arbitrary. He believes otherwise. I knew he would think that, so I was a ball of anxiety all morning. I went home at lunch to run a few miles to just work it out in my mind.
Today, W had a very difficult discussion about closing one of our offices. It is the right decision, but it is nevertheless extremely hard.
Neither of these decisions, nor the other decisions he, I and the VP-Operations make are ill conceived or capricious. And the hard decisions often come with much gut-wrenching determinations. It is not black and white.
What we always try to remember is that even though we are the owners, we also employ 120 people and ensuring that those people have a good, steady income is one of our priorities.
Fortunately, we have each other to help us make it through these weeks.
4 Comments:
Sometimes a good run, and good company is the only way to get through it.
It's hard on all accounts. Hang in there.
Hang in there, chickie. I know how hard those decisions can be. Hopefully things will turn around next week!
Ugh, sorry! How awful! I had to let someone go too, but she was very understanding.
Hope you have a nice relaxing weekend to take the edge off.
HUGS!
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